Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/08

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Subject: [Leica] Leica Wetzlar
From: "Sal DiMarco,Jr." <sdmp007@pressroom.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 10:41:17 -0500
 
Luggers & Leggers,
    A few days ago, someone commented about a "Leica Wetzlar" and "Made in
Portugal" engraving on a camera.
    Well, the answer is simple. Sometime either just before or just after
the Leitz family sold the company, the governmental power that be decided to
combine the towns of Wetzlar and Giessen into one and call it Lahnstadt,
after the Lahn River..
    The Leica folds wanting to preserve the Wetzlar name, changed the name
of the company to Leica Wetzlar.
    Since Wetzlar and Giessen still exist, I guess the town name change was
defeated.
Happy Snaps,
Sal DiMarco, Jr.