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Hansgrohe Brand's History

hansgrohe. Life is waterful.

Your premium bathroom & kitchen brand.

Day after day, we pour all our passion and precision into creating unforgettable water experiences that meet standards and generate genuine enthusiasm. We believe the bathroom is a place that can enrich your life and fill it with lots of emotions and extraordinary moments. Bring your bathroom dreams to life!

Bring your very own dream bathroom to life.

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With hansgrohe, your individual requirements become the focus. Our multi-award-winning matching design products enable you to make your bathroom dreams a reality. To ensure lavatory faucets and wash basins work in harmony, we have tested over 12,000 possible combinations at our Technical Service Center and found the perfect hansgrohe ExcellentFit for you. This expertise is also incorporated into our recommendations for the perfect shower faucet, bath tub faucet, hand shower, and overhead shower pairings. All this is based on our 120 years of experience as a pioneer in manufacturing faucets, bathroom furnishings, and showers.

With our FinishPlus finishes, you can create individual accents and design your bathroom to suit your personal style. Our broad portfolio of bathroom furniture, wash basins, and toilets offers you perfectly coordinated and top-quality holistic bathroom design.

Why hansgrohe?

For over 120 years, we have combined the highest quality with sustainable innovations – for an impressive experience.

Design & innovation

We are revolutionizing faucets, showers & bath tubs with innovative design, excellent functionality, and top quality. We’ve already won 700 awards for this – and counting!

Our green heart

We develop products for impressive water experiences with reduced resource consumption. So that you don’t have to choose between wellbeing and sustainability.

Guaranteed quality

Top product quality is an element of the hansgrohe DNA. With hansgrohe, you benefit from a five-year manufacturer's guarantee, extended to 20 years for ceramics.

The History of Hansgrohe – Bathroom Innovations in the Black Forest

The Hansgrohe company history began in the year 1901: Back then, innovator Hans Grohe founded a craft business for metal-spun goods in the small Black Forest town of Schiltach. One of his specialties: Tin shower for the home bathroom, which was coming into style. In doing so, he laid the cornerstone for a success story that continues today.

Hans Grohe founded his craft business for metal-spun goods in 1901. The visionary recognized the potential of goods for the then-novel bathroom (Copyright: Hansgrohe SE).

How it all began: The origins of the Hansgrohe company in Schiltach

On June 15, 1901, Hans Grohe (1871-1955) founded a craft business for metal-spun goods in the Schiltach, in the Kinzig valley – venturing to make a new start. The trained cloth-maker from Luckenwalde, near Berlin, had moved to the small town in the Black Forest two years before. He then turned his back on weaving and discovered the production of metal goods like brass pans, watch parts, and stovepipe rosettes. From the beginning, tin showers were part of the product range from Hans Grohe’s small, three-man operation. The innovator made the right choice: The private household bathroom came into fashion at the turn of the 20th century. Back then, having one’s own bathroom was still a pure luxury for the population at large in Germany. Hans Grohe recognized the shower as an affordable alternative to the lavish process of bathing in a bath tub, and soon began specializing entirely in metal goods for the sanitation section. In the following decades, Hans Grohe was passionately dedicated to the further development of his showers. With his ideas, he was a crucial influence on Hansgrohe's company history and the future shower culture.

Hans Grohe founded his company in an old sawmill in 1901 (Copyright: Hansgrohe SE).

Defining developments in shower culture

Hans Grohe quickly developed into a shower specialist and pioneer in the German sanitation industry. Starting in 1928, his hand shower evolved into a convenient alternative to the then-customary overhead shower. His shapes and ideas remained influential for moder shower technology for several decades. Even at age 82, the company founder made a pioneering invention: the wallbar. This enabled the hand shower to be attached at the desired height for the first time. Today, it’s a standard in bathrooms around the globe – in 1953, it was a stroke of sanitation genius. In 1955, eldest son Hans Grohe Junior (1895-1960) took over leadership of the firm. The company remained in family hands, even after its founder's death.

Otto Johannes, called Hans Grohe was bron in Luckenwalde, near Berlin, in 1871. In 1901, he founded his own company in Schiltach (Copyright : Hansgrohe SE).

Hans Grohe exoanded his company in 1909. He atteched a new factory building with shipping and storage to his family home (Copyright : Hansgrohe SE).

The company continued to grow. In 1912, Hans Grohe had twelve workers and one salaried employee - seen here with family members in front of the factory building (Copyright : Hansgrohe SE).

Hans Grohe (left) with his sons Hans Jr. (Center) and Friedrich (right), 1934. That same year, Hans Jr. became an attorney (Copyright : Hansgrohe SE).

Hans Grohe with his youngest son, Klaus, in 1937. Klaus Grohe will go on to have a crucial influence on the family business (Copyright : Hansgrohe SE).

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