The commemorative volume 'Ein Roter Ring rollt um die Welt', self-published in 1953 by the firm Rotring/Riepe-Werk, is an unusual form of company anniversary publication for the 25th anniversary, focused on the Rotring inkpen. It tells the probably fictional story of a Hamburg journalist named Wiek who is sent on a world trip by his newspaper and on his stops in Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia and America repeatedly encounters the inkpen — be it in Manaus in cinema advertising, in the port of Singapore during the unloading of Riepe crates or in Spain at the contract signing of a torero.
After his return to Hamburg, Wiek is sent on a report to the Riepe works; there readers learn about the founding in 1928 with the Stylo-Pen, predecessor of the inkpen, the war years, the rebuilding and the company development of the early 1950s. The bound volume has about 60 pages and contains travel photos, shots from inkpen production and pictures of the founder and important employees. Today the book is to be found in antiquarian shops or with collectors.