The name STAEDTLER is closely linked with Germany’s Nuremberg city’s pencil history. Long before J.S. Staedtler founded his pencil making factory within Nuremberg’s old city walls back in 1835, the STAEDTLER family had been hand-making this well-loved writing instrument for generations already. By around 1840 J.S. Staedtler was already making 63 different kinds of pencil. In 1880, the company was taken over by L. Kreutzer who relocated it to the citys Johannis district in 1898.
