History of Paper in Germany

German Paper

        The paper making process began in China as early as 105 A.D. The process made it to Germany in about 1320.  In 1844, Friedrich Keller invented an industrialized process of paper making from wood pulp. Keller sold his discovery to a paper specialist, Heinrich Voelter.  In 1948, Voelter worked with Johann Voith to mass produce paper via this method.  Voith created the Raffineur that refined the paper further, improving the quality of the paper.  Their company still exists today as a part of the Industrial company Voith AG ("Friedrich Keller...").
      In 1879, Carl F. Dahl created the Kraft process for making paper in Danzig, Prussia. This process elicited a stronger, less permanent paper by using sulfate.  The recovery boiler, invented by Tomlinson, increased the efficiency of the Kraft process in the 1930s ("Carl F. Dahl...").
          During the 1930s, the time in which the copy of Mein Kampf from Morrow was written, Germany was suffering heavily economically.  The Great Depression hit them hard, causing high inflation and food shortages.  They had to ration their food and worked to develop synthetics.  The economic system recovered from the devastation of WWI, however, through several work programs ran by the Nazi government.  I am unaware of any paper shortages during the war.  Most luxury items still were rationed, but Newspapers and propaganda papers were widespread at this time. After the war, Germany had several fliers asking them to save and recycle papers (seen below.)



















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