Count Roland von Faber-Castell (seated, centre) on a visit to the Faber-Castell Corporation USA. Also in the photo are the chairman Gus Wiedenmayer (seated, right) and president Christoph Wiedenmayer (standing, left). Count Roland had more than just business ties with the Wiedenmayers: he was also a close friend of the family.
1957 and the 1960s - The economic recovery after the Second World War allows the company to expand by founding sales offices and production sites abroad. And so the successful policies of the pre-war years are revived.
1961 - The company celebrates its bicentenary with 3,000 current and former employees plus guests from all over the world. The citizens’ brigade travels from the island of Reichenau on Lake Constance in historic uniforms. The people of Stein take part in the event: the schools declare a holiday and children enjoy watching the colourful procession. The exhibition hall in Nuremberg has been decorated festively, and Count Roland von Faber-Castell and his family welcome cabinet ministers, the lord mayor of Nuremberg Dr Urschlechter, and other VIP guests.
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