Peter Schwinn started Schwinn Hardware in 1932 as a workshop in Ober-Ramstadt, Germany making furniture handles and knobs. Today, it remains true to its original purpose, to make high quality furniture handles and knobs.
Just the name. Ignaz Schwinn, a German who was born in 1860 in a town one hour southeast of Ober-Ramstadt, emigrated to the USA, and in 1895 founded Arnold, Schwinn & Company making bicycles in Chicago. Thirty-seven years later, Peter Schwinn started his furniture hardware company in Germany.