Metabo's history stretches over more than three quarters of a century. It is mainly the history of a search for the most robust products with the longest service life.

In 1924, at the eve of the economic depression of those times, Albrecht Schnizler, a baker's son, and his business partner Julius Closs co-founded Schnizler GmbH. They wanted to manufacture tools that would meet the higher demands of an increasingly engineered world better than most of the tools that existed at that time.