Eberstein, August

inventor , designer, founder

August Eberstein was a german engineer, co-founder of Montblanc brand.
Montblanc International is a German manufacturer of writing instruments, watches, jewellery and leather goods, often identified by their "White Star" logo. Founded by the stationer Claus-Johannes Voss, the banker Alfred Nehemias and the engineer August Eberstein in 1908, the company began as the Simplo Filler Pen company producing up-market pens in the Schanzen district of Hamburg. Their first model was the Rouge et Noir in1909 followed in 1910 by the pen that was later to give the company its new name, Montblanc.The Meisterstück name (English: "Masterpiece", the name used for export) was used for the firs ttime in 1924, for the top lines of fountain pens.
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Curriculum vitae

1902 - 1905		he moved to Europe
1905		He works in USA in factories of fountain pens
1906		Founds the Montblanc company with Claus-Johannes Voss and Alfred Nehemias
1909		production of first fountain pen
* ?	Berlin	born
† ?	no place	died

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