[Leica] Wetzlar visit

[Richard Clompus]

Ken, thanks for sharing.  I visited Leica Solms many years ago. It was a generic industrial flat roofed building that still had a few magic elves inside.  Leica had a miraculous turn around from imminent bankruptcy with Dr Andreas Kaufmann’s investment. How fortunate we all are to still have a company producing some of the world’s outstanding optics.  

Be well,
Richard

Richard Clompus
Roanoke, VA

> On May 12, 2023, at 5:23 PM, Ken Iisaka <ken at iisaka.com> wrote:
> 
> I was on a road trip around Germany and visited Wetzlar last week. Stayed
> at the "Ernst Leitz Wetzlar" hotel in the Leitz Park complex, ate breakfast
> at "Oskar's", had a tour of the museum and the factory and strolled around
> Wetzlar.
> 
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/kiisaka/europe2023/IMG_5069.jpeg.html
> 
> The older former Leitz complex is now occupied by Leica Microsystems, on
> Ernst Leitz Strasse, while there really seems to be no sign of Leitz/Leica
> left in the neighboring Solms any more.
> 
> I was a little surprised to see that Zeiss had a significant presence in
> Wetzlar as well. The Carl Zeiss Wetzlar was formerly the Moritz Hensoldt,
> and continues to produce binoculars and other scopes.
> 
> -- 
> Ken Iisaka
> first name at last name dot org or com
> 
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