Kaspar Faber

Kaspar Faber ( born March 31, 1730 in Langenzenn, † 1784 in Stein near Nuremberg ) was a German entrepreneur. On him the foundation of the well-known stationery company Faber -Castell is declining.

Biography

After school, Faber trained as a carpenter. 1758 met Faber, Langenzenn coming, in the municipality of Stein near Nuremberg a. In the same year his son Anton Wilhelm was born.

Two years later he was here as a carpenter finally settled in 1761 and opened a small workshop in which he " Bleyweißstefften " produced; in its time a typical activity of the carpenter craft. Efforts to raise the pencil to make a guild craft fair, failed due to the lack of approval of the Nuremberg Rugsamtes, which exercised the Labour Inspectorate in the imperial city and its surrounding region.

For these pins, original, not easily crumbled from pure graphite and broke, he undertook, in 1771 the first experiments with ground graphite, which he mingled with sulfur, antimony, and binding resins. From the already long-known technique in Nuremberg, einzuleimen the pens in wooden sticks, he still did not use.

To his lifetime production was still on a small scale. With his small workshop, he laid the foundation for a pencil factory, which led his great-grandson in the middle of the 19th century into a global brand.

Honors

  • The Kaspar Faber Street in Bremen Oberneuland was named after him in 2000.

Progeny

  • Anton Wilhelm Faber (1758-1819), after the death of his father renamed the company under his name " A. W. Faber ". It is recorded that his wife was still with the willow basket to Nuremberg on the market to offer there pencils. Georg Leonhard Faber (1788-1839), ∞ Sophia copper (1790-1845); Georg Leonhard took over the company in 1810 Johann Lothar Freiherr von Faber (1817-1896), ∞ Ottilie Richter (1831-1903); Lothar took over the business in 1839, expelled the pencils for the first time under the brand name " AW Faber ", introduced the hexagonal shape of the pins and founded its own sales force with offices in Europe, USA and India. In recognition of its economic and social achievements, he received in 1862 awarded personal nobility, 1881 he was elevated to the hereditary baron, was appointed to a lifelong and 1889 the Hereditary Imperial Council of the Bavarian Crown 1865. Wilhelm Freiherr von Faber (1851-1893), his cousin Bertha Faber ∞ (1856-1940); William was Lothar von Faber's only son, from 1873 active in the company and in 1877 to follow. For him, the villa was built next to the 1872 -built " Old Castle ". He suffered the death of his sons and left after his early death alongside his wife three daughters. Lothar had therefore continue to lead to their own death. Lothar Freiherr von Faber; died at the age of 3-4 years.
  • Alfred Wilhelm Freiherr von Faber; died at the age of 3-4 years
  • Baroness Ottilie von Faber (1877-1944), Count Alexander zu Castell ∞ 1898 -Rüdenhausen ( 1866-1929 ); By the death of her two brothers she had risen to be the oldest girl heiress of the company. After Lothar's death, the legacy of his wife, was administered until marriage Ottilie. Lothar von Faber had in his will that future generations would always have to incorporate the name " Faber " in the new common family name. With royal approval took Alexander zu Castell -Rüdenhausen in marriage on February 2, 1898 the name "Graf von Faber -Castell ", and renounced his rights against the house Castell. With the marriage, the new family line of the Counts von Faber -Castell and the brand name " Faber -Castell " was born. 18 years later Ottilie split from Alexander and married Philip of fire to Neidenstein. Elisabeth Gräfin von Faber -Castell (1899-1986), ∞ I. 1920 ( divorced 1930) Hubert Frommel ( 1899-1970 ), II 1933 Nikolaus Graf von Bismarck - Schönhausen ( 1896-1940 ), III. 1947 Max Buchegger ( 1919-1968 )
  • One son ( * 1902; died after a few months )
  • Maria Gabriella Gräfin von Faber -Castell (1900-1985), ∞ I. 1920 ( divorced 1931) Hugo Max Prinz zu Hohenlohe- Öhringen ( 1893-1951 ), II 1935 Lueder Lahmann ( 1914-1959 )
  • Irmengard Countess von Faber -Castell (1904-1972), ∞ I. 1926 (divorced 1939) Frederick William Hornstein ( 1895-1965 ), II, 1958 Karl-Heinz Light ( 1920-1968 )
  • Count Roland von Faber -Castell (1905-1978), ∞ I. 1928 (divorced 1935) Alix -May of Frankenberg and Ludwig village ( 1907-1979 ), II, 1938 ( divorced 1969) Catherine spokesman Bernegg ( 1917-1994 ) ( daughter of Andreas spokesman Bernegg ), III. 1969 Ursula soil ( 1924-2003 ); Roland took over in 1928, the company management Count Anton Wolfgang von Faber -Castell ( b. 1941 )
  • Alexandra Countess of Castell- Rüdenhausen (1904-1961), ∞ 1927 Friedrich Christian, Prince of Schaumburg -Lippe ( 1906-1983 )
  • Wulf Diether Graf zu Castell- Rüdenhausen (1905-1980), ∞ I. 1928 (divorced 1941) Hildegard Princess of Hanau ( 1903-1990 ), II 1942 Luise Ullrich ( 1910-1985 )
  • Bertha Faber (1856-1940) ∞ her cousin Wilhelm Freiherr von Faber (1851-1893)
  • Sophia Faber ( born August 14, 1857)
  • John Eberhard Faber ( born March 14, 1859); founded together with his brother Lothar 1922 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz the pencil and eraser " Eberhard Faber ", which belongs to Staedler group since 1978.
  • Lothar W. Faber ( born September 27, 1861)
  • Louise Faber ( born January 2, 1866)
  • Rosie Faber ( born February 3, 1871)
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