GROHMANN KNIVES LIMITED
Grohmann Knives
Nova Scotia, Canada · Est. 1949
Grohmann Knives Limited is a small family business with a big reputation.
Old World Roots
A story beginning in Sudetenland before the Second World War
Family Legacy
Rudolph Grohmann's craft carried forward through generations
Nova Scotia Since 1949
A new home built with provincial government support
European Craftsmanship
Techniques rooted in Mikulasovice cutlery tradition
An Old World Story
It is an Old World story that began before the second World War, when a commercial buyer from Quebec traveled once a year to a factory in Sudetenland, then a German region of Czechoslovakia, to buy pocket knives. Every year the buyer would urge Rudolph Grohmann the production manager at a plant in Mikulasovice (Nixdorf), to come to Canada, promising him help to get started. Mr. Grohmann would always decline as he was happy in his own country, but after the war, the political situation grew desperate and in 1949 Rudolph Grohmann accepted the offer. Rudolph's daughter Berta married Michael Babinec Sr who was from Rudno nad Hrohom. Within a year, Grohmann and his family arrived in Nova Scotia at the invitation of the provincial government-funded Pictou Cutlery.