The previous owners were Emil Rosendahl and Max Guggenheimer, the first of whom died in the KZ Theresienstadt.

[3] Partners Gerd and Maria Prange joined the company in 1965, hiring future manager Hermann-Josef Richter a year later.

In April 1969, the headquarters were moved to the Wasserstraße in Wuppertal's Barmen district, where it remains to this day.

[5] In the 1970s and 80s, the company expanded by opening additional branches in Wuppertal and other cities of North Rhine-Westphalia.

In early 2009 the 51 German branches of the almost-bankrupt shoe store chain Salamander Schuhe were acquired.