Our success story began in 1935, with a small shoe workshop in the heart of the Innviertel region, near Schärding in Upper Austria. ‘Small but refined’ was Josef HÖGL’s motto as he started his career as a shoemaker.

Driven by a pioneering spirit and determination, he founded a company that for 80 years has grown over the generations to inspire women with its high-quality and fashionable shoes. Time-honoured tradition, innovative craftsmanship and pure passion are the key ingredients for success, qualities that continue to characterise HÖGL - one of the most popular women's shoe brands in Europe - to this day.

HÖGL, along with comfort shoe brands GANTER and HASSIA, has since been incorporated as a subsidiary of the family-owned LORENZ Shoe Group GmbH. Principal owner Joseph Lorenz, his son Patrick Lorenz and co-owner Gerhard Bachmaier place the greatest value on the fact that HÖGL has remained in family hands since it was founded. The firm’s continuing globalisation and expansion of export markets in Europe and Russia can be attributed to the visionary thinking and entrepreneurial spirit of Joseph Lorenz.