Ulman Stromer |
Ulman Stromer (6 January 1329 – 3 April 1407) was a
In 1390, he established the first permanent
In the name of Christ, amen. Anno Domini 1390, I, Ulman Stromer, started at making paper on St. John's day at the Solstice, and began to set up a wheel in the Gleissmühle, and Clos Obsser was the first who came to work.
— Ulman Stromer, "The First German Paper-maker", Popular Science Monthly Vol. 42
Stromer decided to start a paper-mill after he recognised the success that this business was having in Italy. In order to secure the know-how he employed the Italian brothers Marco and Francisco di Marchia and their boy Bartolomeo, bringing them to Nuremberg.[2]