Our featured Legacy Entrepreneur is Dr. Eckhart Grohmann, whose name has become more familiar to people around the Milwaukee Region thanks to the Grohmann Museum, which holds a beautiful collection of industrial-themed art.
Dr. Grohmann is the former chairman and president of Milwaukee's Aluminum Casting & Engineering Co., a firm he acquired in 1965 and grew from a small foundry of 35 employees to a company ten times that size when he sold the business in last year.
A successful serial entrepreneur, Grohmann co-founded Central Control Alarm Corp. in 1980 and developed it into the leading alarm company in Wisconsin before selling it to Ameritech in 1997.
Dr. Grohmann received a Diplom Kaufmann (MBA) from the University of Mannheim in 1962 and received an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from MSOE in 1999. He has served as an MSOE Regent since 1990.
Dr. Grohmann’s legacy includes strong contributions not only to Milwaukee’s economy through the years, but also to our arts and cultural base – a well-rounded legacy, indeed!