BRAND HISTORY

Ever since his youth, Grünbein founder Klaus Schwarz is mad about shoes. His first collection were extravagant Rockabilly models, which he produced 30 years ago in a small edition in the Palatinate. The fervour for shoes is probably in his genes: his ancestor Max Grünbein was a passionate shoemaker, who pursued his craft around 1900 in Silesia.

After various stations in the shoe industry, Schwarz founded the shoe company Linie Nero and the Grünbein brand in 2006 in Switzerland. When he converted the company into Nero Handels GmbH in 2009, the company headquarters moved to Berlin.

PREMIUM QUALITY, STYLISH, COMFORTABLE

Typical for the Grünbein brand is the successful combination of high-quality European leather types, excellent comfort, best manufacturing quality and high fashion standards. Where other labels make compromises, Grünbein opens up another lane: the models come in two fits, Modern Classic and Natural Fit, so that every customer can find their own perfectly fitting shoe – comfort and good looks form a perfect symbiosis.

BEST QUALITY FROM THE START

Today, around 25 employees in Germany are responsible for the sale, organisation and sale of the shoe collections, all of the shoes are manufactured in selected factories in Portugal. Grünbein has worked with most of these small and medium-sized family businesses right from the start.

Based on the retro style of the 1960s and 1970s, the Grünbein collection offers a very special look with natural crepes soles, highly fashionable materials and a unique colour scheme – from timeless colours to extravagant effect leathers.