The name STAEDTLER is closely linked with Nurembergs pencil history. Long before J.S. Staedtler founded his pencil making factory within Nurembergs old city walls back in 1835, the STAEDTLER family had been hand-making this well-loved writing instrument for generations already. 

In fact, the roots can be traced back to 1662 - the year in which first references to Friedrich Staedtler as a pencil-making craftsman were made in the city annals.

It was J.S. Staedtler who transformed the workshop into an industrial plant. On 3rd October 1835, he received permission from the municipal council to produce blacklead, red chalk and pastel pencils.

By around 1840 J.S. Staedtler was already making 63 different kinds of pencil. In 1866, the company had 54 employees and produced 15.000 gross (= 2.160.000 pencils) per year.

In 1880, the company was taken over by L. Kreutzer who relocated it to the citys Johannis district in 1898.

• 1834: J. S. Staedtler invents coloured oil pastel pencils which "can be sharpened to a point just like a pencil"
• 1835: Manufacturing license granted by municipal council
• 1880: Ludwig Kreutzer becomes partner
• 1884: Export office in London
• 1887: Export office in Paris
• Range: drawing pencils in 12 degrees, coloured pencils in 48 colours

• 1926: Foundation of the Osaka / Japan subsidiary.
  The Moon brand has already been successfully introduced in the Far East
• 1929: Foundation of the London / U.K. subsidiary
• 1937: Name changed to Mars Pencil and Fountain Pen Factory.
  Product range expanded to include mechanical writing instruments

• 1988: Relocation to a new 47,000 sqm site in Moosaeckerstrasse in the North of Nuremberg
• 1997: Establishment of the STAEDTLER foundation
• 1998: Manufacture and sale of ink jet inks for large format printers