Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/16

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Leica Conglom'. Correction / Moss / Captijn
From: Leikon35@aol.com
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 22:39:29 EST

 I again stand corrected ----

 Ernst Leitz Wetzlar was owned by a Mr. Schmidheiny (Holdernank)
 & producing cement as their main activity.
 The Leitz brothers had to sell their shares to the Swiss as Leitz was
 losing money.  As the conglomerate also owned the optical company
 Wild Heerbrugg in Switzerland, who also made microscopes,
 Schmidheiny decided to merge the two companies.

 After a series of management changes, the camera & lens production
 activities of the old Leitz company were incorporated in a new company
 called LEICA.  The company found a former Furniture factory in Solms
 and moved from Wetzlar to start production there.

 Marvin Moss