[3] The company was formed as Dewitta in 1949 by two entrepreneurs, Walter Wittenstein and Bruno Dähn, in Steinheim near Heidenheim (Baden-Württemberg).

Using borrowed equipment, this small firm specialized in the manufacture of double chainstitch machines for glovemaking.

The first production plant was a converted barracks beaf to Eissee lake, originally only intended as an interim solution.

Contract work and diversification into alternative products became increasingly critical factors as the company struggled through this difficult period and soon accounted for half the firm's total sales.

Guns for steel nails, machines for filling and sealing tubes, equipment for packing sliced bread, etc.

In the search for market opportunities and adequate products with unique attributes, he quickly recognized the potential of low-backlash planetary gearheads.

[5] An assembly shop, warehouse and various office buildings were erected at the Herrenwiesenstrasse site in Igersheim, as a result of which floor space more than doubled.

This period simultaneously marked the end of the sewing machine era and the last Dewitta was assembled while still in Weikersheim.

[5] Today, the group headquarters are in Igersheim-Harthausen – a star-shaped complex of administrative buildings, production shops and logistics centre.

are still manufactured at Igersheim, while gear wheels continue to be produced in Fellbach – which was converted to a "Future Urban Production" (Urbanen Produktion der Zukunft) facility in 2010.

In 2001, the firm was given a new corporate structure when the original Wittenstein GmbH & Co. KG was transformed into a family owned, non-listed public limited company.

In 2008, the Group acquired a majority share in Munich based attocube systems, which became a wholly owned subsidiary three years later in 2011.

Bertram Hoffmann became chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the Wittenstein Group on April 1, 2019.