Company history - History | Hansgrohe Group

Master clothier Hans Grohe (1871-1955) is an innovator.
In 1899 he moves from Luckenwalde near Berlin to the small Black Forest
town of Schiltach. Two years later he turns his back on weaving and
establishes a metal pressing workshop. Hans Grohe has a passion for the
element water, and so from 1901 onwards he bravely hedges his bets on
the sanitary sector, still in its early stages of development. Of course
bathrooms in private houses were only just becoming fashionable at that
time. He specialises in tin showers, thus laying the foundations for
untold success.