The multi-denominational Dom church is beautiful as is the square around it. The other reason for visiting Wetzlar is the town itself which has old traditional ‘half-wood’ buildings which have been there for many centuries and have quite a bit of history behind them. Leica became renowned as a maker of high quality equipment for photography, photographic reproduction, and observation.Īfter the 1960s - company face increasingly stiff competition in the market from Japanese manufacturers.ġ972 - co-operation between Wild Heerbrugg, Switzerland and Leitz.ġ986 - Leica GmbH was founded to manage the Leitz camera division just as sales began to decline.ġ986/1987 - company merges with Wild Heerbrugg AG to form Wild Leitz.ġ990 - Wild Leitz and Cambridge Instruments group (including Reichert Jung) merge now Leica Microsystems GmbH, Wetzlar + Leica Camera AG, Solms, Germany + Leica Geosystems, Heerbrugg, Switzerland. Leitz Park is, effectively, a campus dedicated to the history of Leitz/Leica. Ernst Leitz Wetzlar GmbH has 50 employees at this location and generates 7.21 million in sales (USD). Oskar Barnack, previously an employee of Zeiss, experimented with his idea for several years before he finally invented the Leica camera.ġ849 - Wetzlar Optical Institute founded by Carl Kellner (1823-1855).ġ864 - mechanic Ernst Leitz joined the Optical Institute, manufacturing lenses for telescopes and microscopes.ġ865-1869 - partnership as 'Optical Institute' Leitz became a partner.ġ869 - Ernst Leitz (1843-1920) takes over sole management and renames company as E Leitz, Wetzlar.ġ920 - management passes to Ernst Leitz (II) then to his sons, Ernst, Ludwig and Günther in 1956.ġ924 - the camera goes into mass production. Company Description: Ernst Leitz Wetzlar GmbH is located in Wetzlar, Hessen, Germany and is part of the Commercial and Service Industry Machinery Manufacturing Industry. The first 35-mm compact camera was developed and manufactured at the Leitz company.
The earlier Leitz trade catalogues give the date of establishment as 1850 but by the early twentieth century, Leitz publications put the date at 1849. The company became highly successful manufacturing microscopes before branching out in to camera manufacture. The company of Ernst Leitz had its origin in the Optical Institute founded by Karl Kellner in Wetzlar, Germany.
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