STAEDTLER - your inspiration for 175 years!

STAEDTLER^® - your inspiration for 175 years!

Whenever an idea or sudden inspiration comes to mind, what’s the first thing you do?

You reach for a pen or pencil to write down, draw or highlight your thoughts so that you can show them to others or remind yourself of them again later.

Thus, every idea starts with a pen or pencil! As a result, STAEDTLER can proudly claim to be a source of inspiration for people the world over - and that already for 175 years!

Long before Johann Sebastian Staedtler founded his own pencil manufacturing plant J.S. Staedtler in 1835, one of his ancestors, Friedrich Staedtler, had already been active as a ‘lead-pencil maker’.

Records of him in the city annals date back as far as 1662.

It was Johann Sebastian Staedtler who transformed the workshop into an industrial plant.

On 3rd October 1835, he received permission from Nuremberg’s municipal council to produce blacklead, red chalk and pastel pencils, thereby laying the foundation for the modern, world-famous STAEDTLER Group as we know it today.

Ideas from STAEDTLER go around the world - STAEDTLER is today one of the world’s leading manufacturers and suppliers
of writing and drawing instruments and creative products.

STAEDTLER remains clearly committed to its German manufacturing base and is the largest European manufacturer of OHP pens, erasers, wood-cased pencils, mechanical pencil leads and modelling clays.

STAEDTLER - your inspiration for 175 years!