Horst Streckenbach “Tattoo Samy” (August 5, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was a well-known German tattoo artist and historian of the medium, who had been tattooing since 1946. Streckenbach is considered important in the development of tattooing in Germany.Marcel Feige: Das Tattoo-und Piercing Lexikon, , S. 282 With Manfred Kohrs from Hanover in Germany from 1974 to 1978 he developed a rotary tattoo machineStreckenbach / Kohrs tattoo machine 1976, chinatattooneedles.com, October 18, 2010. and in 1975 the barbell.
