1. Generation
Kaspar Faber (1730 - 1784)
2. Generation
Anton Wilhelm Faber (1758-1819)
3. Generation
Georg Leonhard Faber (1788-1839)
4. Generation
Lothar von Faber (1817-1896)
1837
Modernization of the production plant
1844
Social foundations
1849
The first foreign branch in New York
1851
One of Germany's first kindergartens
1856
Graphite from Siberia
1861
Centenary celebrations
1861
The A.W. Faber pencil factory opens in New York
1862
Lothar Faber is elevated to the peerage
1870
The name A.W. Faber is entered in the US Register of Companies
1872
A.W. Faber eraser factory in Newark (New Jersey)
1874
A subsidiary is founded in St Petersburg
1874
Legislation to protect proprietary rights
1875
Eraser patent
1880
Product presentation
1884
The “Faber house” in Berlin
1894
New York premises open
5th generation
Wilhelm von Faber (1851 - 1893)
6th-generation
Count Alexander Faber-Castell (1866–1928)
1898
A new name comes about
1903
The "New Castle"
1905
The Castell series of pencils
1906
The castle logo
1908
Polychromos artists’ colour pencils
1911
150th anniversary
1916
Ottilie and Alexander von Faber-Castell separate
1914-1918
Several foreign operations were confiscated
1928
Death of Count Alexander von Faber-Castell
7th generation
Count Roland von Faber-Castell (1905-1978)
1932
Pencil cases with decorative figures
1948
Production of patent mechanical pencils
1949
The ball pen
1950
A new logo
1950s
Colourful packaging
1961
Two hundred years of A.W. Faber-Castell
8th generation
Count Anton Wolfgang Faber-Castell