About us

It all began in 1905 in a small garage at the fringe of Munich ... Franz Ritter founded his ritterwerk ...

30 years later he built the first breadslicing machine . Some of these machines are still in use now, more than 70 years later.

A pioneering tradition of slicing - from the long-familiar manual slicer to the electrical slicer and finally to the suspended and inclined construction. ritter has built slicers for 70 years now, always obliged to best quality. In fact, we are proud of having the world's largest assortment of household slicers . Every decade influenced the individual form of the ritter slicers - a kind of chronicle of the 20th century design.
ritter continuously integrated the fast moving technical and mechanical developments and innovations into the new products.

Nowadays ritter is among the world leaders regarding quality and design of slicing machines .

About intelligent stowing away

Space is a very precious "ingredient" in modern-life kitchens.
The more space you have available on the work top the easier and faster you can prepare the food.

ritter has developed clever and space-saving installations and is now the world's market leader of built-in slicers .

When Franz Ritter founded his ritterwerk more than 100 years ago, he certainly didn't aim that high. Nevertheless, this leading position has been strengthened ever since the introduction of built-in systems by the inventiveness of our engineers, the involvement and commitment of the entire staff and also by far-sighted management decisions.
Patents and constant innovations back up ritterwerk's leading position and ensure it will remain the world's most important manufacturer of built-in kitchen machines .

All major kitchen manufacturers and wholesalers sell ritter built-in systems.
ritter is the no. 1 worldwide for built-in kitchen installations.
Best quality and outstanding service will help us keep this position.

"Made in Germany" will be the key to this success.

Form and function do belong together - the exterior actually reflects the interior.

We do not want to persuade -
we are convincing!

Your ritterwerk