Friedrich Soennecken

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Friedrich Soennecken (born 1848 in Sauerland, Westphalia, died July 2nd 1919), was entrepreneur and inventor. He was the founder of Soennecken, a German office supplier.

Soennecken was born in 1848 as a son of a forge. On May 27 1875 he fuonded the the F. Soennecken Verlag, a commercial enterprise in Remscheid, Westphalia. His main invention is the development of writing with a round tip of a pen (nibs). It eased the way of writing with pens up to now. Soennecken published writing books for the new type of writing appearing in several languages. He also introduced the two-hole-perforator. In 1876 he and his company relocated to Poppelsdorf, near Bonn to be closer to the University which later awarded him the honor title Dr. med. h. c..

In 1888, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote a friend, that he discovered finally quality paper to write on and a pen, that is from Germany: Soenneckens Rundschrift Federhalter

[edit] Inventions

as apprentice: Ink container with stable stand
1860: Development of writing with round tip of the feather of a pen (nibs)
round writing, model of our current script
1886: An early type of binders is introduced which later becomes the Soennecken file
Introduction of the punch
The ring binder, later symbolically part of the Logo of Soennecken