In 1952, Friedrich Hoppe founded a company for the manufacture of door hardware in Heiligenhaus near Düsseldorf, the former heartland of Germany’s lock and hardware industry. In 1954 he moved the business to Stadtallendorf (north of
Frankfurt) and in so doing laid the foundation for continual growth.
Today, the HOPPE Group, an internationally active company with its headquarters in Switzerland, is led by Wolf Hoppe and Christoph Hoppe in its second generation.