Soennecken's birthplace in Dröschede

Friedrich Soennecken (born September 20, 1848 in Iserlohn-Dröschede, Sauerland, died July 2, 1919 in Bonn), was entrepreneur and inventor. Iserlohn (iːzɐˈloːn is a city in the Märkischer Kreis district in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The Sauerland is a rural hilly area spreading across most of the south-eastern part of North Rhine-Westphalia, in parts heavily Forested and apart from the major Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia An entrepreneur is a person who has possession over a company enterprise, or Venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks and the outcome An inventor is a person who creates or discovers a new method form device or other useful means He was the founder of Soennecken, a German office supplier. The company Soennecken is a German office product manufacturer

Soennecken was born in 1848 as a son of a forge. A forge is the workplace of a smith or a Blacksmith. A forge is sometimes referred to as a smithy. On May 27 1875 he founded the the F. Soennecken Verlag, a commercial enterprise in Remscheid, Westphalia. Remscheid (ˈʁɛmʃaɪt is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Westphalia (Westfalen) is a region in Germany, centred on the cities of Bielefeld, Bochum, Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Münster His main invention is the development of writing with a round tip of a pen (nibs). A fountain pen is a Pen that contains a reservoir of water-based liquid ink. 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. perforator is a machine for perforating thin materials such as paper card and sometimes even plastic and metal 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. Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia The University of Bonn ( German: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany 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

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

Literature

• Hans Schreiber: Soennecken Alphabete No. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15 1844 August 25 1900 ( was a nineteenth-century German philosopher and classical philologist Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. Apprenticeship is a system of Training a new generation of practitioners of a skill A fountain pen is a Pen that contains a reservoir of water-based liquid ink. The reaper-binder, or binder, was a farm implement that improved upon the Reaper. Ring binders (British file) are Folders in which punched pieces of Paper may be held by means of Clamps running through the Holes A logo ( Greek el λογότυπος = el-Latn logotypos is a graphical element ( Ideogram, Symbol, Emblem, Icon, Sign) 7 (Neue Rundschrift), Verlag Soennecken, Zurich, approx. 1930

External links

• Portrait and grave of F. Soennecken
• life and history of Soennecken (German)