Diplomat (stationery)
Diplomat is a German manufacturer of writing implements.
history
The company was founded by Carl Räuchle in Hennef in 1922 as a workshop for turned fountain pens . The brand was almost unknown for a long time. It gained greater fame in the 1950s when Diplomat was one of the first manufacturers in Germany to bring a retractable ballpoint pen onto the market, making the ballpoint pen from the USA popular in Germany. In 1958 Diplomat presented the first cartridge pen . The concept spread very quickly as a result.
In the 1980s Diplomat was taken over by the Stuttgart company Imco, in 1996 Herlitz bought the brand and continued to run it as an independent subsidiary, the production facilities moved to Berlin . In 2001 production was relocated to Cunewalde in Saxony . Markant stationery was already being produced there in the GDR . In 2004 Diplomat was sold to the company Helit . On September 1, 2016, Diplomat passed to the French entrepreneur Mathias Ringeard, who is now the managing director of Diplomat Deutschland GmbH.
Products
Diplomat mainly manufactures fountain pens and ballpoint pens as well as accessories for these writing implements. The product portfolio is divided into three groups:
- Diplomat: high quality classic writing implements
- Magnum by Diplomat: functional writing implements
- Spacetec by Diplomat: innovative writing instruments that use their gas pressure refill to write with the tip pointing upwards, in weightlessness, under water and in extreme temperature conditions from −50 ° C to 200 ° C. This technology was originally developed by the Fisher Space Pen company for use in space.
swell
- pbs aktuell No. 8 / August 2007: A success story. Retrieved February 7, 2013 .
- diplomat-pen.de: Diplomat: History. Retrieved February 7, 2013 .