Rausch Schokoladen

Rausch Schokoladen is a Berlin-based family chocolate business whose documented company history begins in 1918, when Wilhelm Rausch Junior founded the Wilhelm Rausch confectionery in Berlin. The family's confectionery trade reaches further back: Wilhelm Rausch Senior opened a confectionery in 1890, selling chocolates, truffles and pralines. Rausch describes itself as a family business in its fifth generation, with Robert Rausch representing the current generation named in its company materials. The brand makes premium chocolate with an emphasis on fine-flavour cocoa and single-origin products. Its range includes chocolate bars and other chocolate formats, pralines, boxed assortments and seasonal offerings such as Advent calendars. It also presents patisserie as part of the brand: at its Chocolate House in Berlin, patissiers make fresh tarts, pralines, desserts and pastries, while some creations are offered for online ordering. The company describes its products as made from pure ingredients and highlights craftsmanship and family recipes as part of its tradition. Rausch sells through its online shop and has a public-facing Chocolate House and patisserie at Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt. The company says it sources cocoa directly from farmers and cooperatives, including cocoa from its own farm, and identifies responsible sourcing, production and packaging as priorities. Its stated sustainability work includes a fine-flavour cocoa project in Costa Rica. The company remains presented as a family-run Berlin business; no parent company or public listing is identified in the supplied evidence.

Rausch traces its family confectionery history to 1890, when Wilhelm Rausch Senior opened a confectionery offering chocolates, truffles and pralines. His son, Wilhelm Rausch Junior, was born in 1892. The company history says that Junior learned chocolate-making in 1912 and became a master confectioner at a Berlin court confectionery, where chocolates were made in the traditional way. In 1918, Wilhelm Rausch Junior founded the Wilhelm Rausch private confectionery in Berlin. The business made pralines, chocolates and honey cakes, and he operated seven confectionery shops in Berlin. During the 1920s, he developed fine chocolates. Rausch says that the family still preserves the original recipes and that these chocolates continue to be made by hand in Berlin. The company also credits Wilhelm Rausch Junior with inventing its wafer-thin bars: small, 4-by-4-centimetre pieces, 1.2 millimetres thin, made from Rausch fine cocoa chocolate. The official history identifies a takeover by Gerhard Rausch in 1952 and labels him as the third generation, but the supplied account does not provide further detail about the event or the company's subsequent milestones. Rausch describes itself today as a fifth-generation Berlin family business. Robert Rausch is named in company materials as a family representative, and the company says its tradition continues to centre on quality, original recipes and craftsmanship. In its present-day business, Rausch focuses on chocolates made with fine-flavour cocoa, including single-origin products, as well as pralines and other chocolate assortments. It operates an online shop and a Chocolate House in Berlin, where its patisserie makes fresh products. The company says it works directly with cocoa farmers and cooperatives and also uses cocoa from its own farm. Its sustainability account highlights a fine-flavour cocoa project in Costa Rica. In October 2025, the company presented a live patisserie at its Berlin Chocolate House, allowing visitors to watch patissiers work by hand.

• 2025

  Live patisserie opens at the Berlin Chocolate House

• 1952

  Takeover by Gerhard Rausch

• 1920

  Fine chocolates and wafer-thin bars

• 1918

  Wilhelm Rausch Junior founds the Berlin confectionery

• 1912

  Wilhelm Rausch Junior learns the confectioner's craft

• 1890

  Wilhelm Rausch Senior opens a confectionery

Premium chocolate rooted in Berlin family confectionery tradition, differentiated by single-origin fine-flavour cocoa, craftsmanship and stated commitments to direct and responsible sourcing.

• Single-origin cocoa chocolate

  Rausch highlights fine-flavour cocoa from selected partners and its own farm for its chocolate.

• Pralines

  Pralines are part of the company's historical confectionery range and current patisserie offer.

• Rausch Patisserie

  The Berlin patisserie makes fresh tarts, pralines, desserts and pastries.

• Rausch Goldbox

  The Goldbox is shown among products in the official online shop.

• Direct cocoa sourcing and sustainability prioritiesOther

1. 1Rausch | Single Origin Chocolate & Pralines onlinerausch.de
2. 2100 years of chocolate-Our history | Rauschrausch.de
3. 3Live patisserie in the chocolate house | Rauschrausch.de
4. 4Sustainabilityrausch.de