Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/03/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:29 PM 3/17/2001 GMT, Georg Bauer wrote: >Hell, if anybody is to be >blamed, it's the old management of Voigtländer that let the company go >broke. Well, they didn't. When the direct male Voigtländer line died out, a family trust was established. This trust sold the company to the Schering drug company in 1925. When Schering was going through some fiscal woes in the early 1950's, they, in turn, sold the Voigtländer concern to the Zeiss foundation. In 1965, Zeiss merged Voigtländer into Zeiss Ikon. When the Zeiss foundation decided to halt camera production by Z-I-V, most of the remnants of Voigtländer were sold to Rolleiflex Fototechnic. And, when Rollei went bankrupt in 1980, the Voigtländer assets were retained by Rollei save for the name. And that is the name which is currently licensed to Cosina (and to others). Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!