Ernst Leitz II (1 March 1871 – 15 June 1956) was a German business person and humanitarian. He was the second head of the optics company now known as Leica...
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Ernst Leitz GmbH was a German corporation based in Wetzlar, a German centre for optics as well as an important location for the precision engineering...
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Leica Camera (redirect from Ernst Leitz Optische Werke)
binoculars, and rifle scopes. The company was founded by Ernst Leitz in 1869 (Ernst Leitz Wetzlar), in Wetzlar, Germany. The name Leica is derived from...
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Germany before the Holocaust by Ernst Leitz II of the Leica Camera company, and his daughter Elsie Kuehn-Leitz. Ernst Leitz's optics company, founded in Wetzlar...
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subsequently called Ur-Leica at Ernst Leitz Optische Werke (the Leitz factory) in Wetzlar. Barnack was an engineer at the Leitz company and suffered from asthma...
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Camera, Leica Geosystems and Leica Microsystems – Ernst Leitz II (Leitz Camera) Leitz – Louis Leitz LeMond Racing Cycles – Greg LeMond Leslie – Donald...
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Zielgerät 1229 (category World War II German electronics)
Forschungsanstalt der Deutschen Reichspost (RPF). It was produced by Ernst Leitz GmbH and approximately 310 units were built. A grenadier carrying it...
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co-founders of Lehman Brothers Ernst Leitz II (1871–1956), owner of Leitz Camera Louis Leitz (1846–1918), founder of Leitz Carl von Linde (1842–1934), founder...
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FG 1250 (category World War II weapons of Germany)
According to other sources, it was developed by AEG and produced by Ernst Leitz GmbH. It consisted of a specialized mount, active infrared spotlight...
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politician and US diplomat. Ernst Leitz (1843-1920) founded the Ernst Leitz Optical Works in Wetzlar; father of Ernst Leitz II Erich Bloch (1925–2016), computer...
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(Bayer), 2008 Martha and Waitstill Sharp, 2007 Khaled Abdelwahhab, 2007 Ernst Leitz II, 2007 Mefail and Njazi Biçaku, 2007 Hiram "Harry" Bingham IV, 2006 Nicholas...
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produces Leica cameras. The predecessor of the company, formerly known as Ernst Leitz GmbH, is now three companies: Leica Camera AG, Leica Geosystems AG, and...
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The Leica copies originate from the Leica camera that was launched by Ernst Leitz, Wetzlar in 1925, using the Leica 39mm screw mount of 26 threads per...
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mm rangefinder camera by Ernst Leitz GmbH (now Leica Camera AG), introduced in 1954. It was a new starting point for Leitz, which until then had only...
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Tessar (redirect from Leitz Elmar)
designs Ross Xpress (Stuart & Hasselkus, 1913) Berthiot Olor (Florian, 1913) Leitz Elmar (Berek, 1920) Biotessar (Merté & Wandersleb, 1925) Improved Tessar...
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fourth version of the original 35 mm Leica camera to be launched from Ernst Leitz in Wetzlar, Germany. The concept was conceived by their employee Oskar...
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early production M6. Features brass top and bottom plates, "Leitz" red dot logo, "ERNST LEITZ WETZLAR GERMANY" top plate engraving, M11-type abrasion-resistant...
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världskriget" [Interwar period and World War II] (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 9 December 2006. Leitz, Christian (2000). Nazi Germany and Neutral...
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Walter Mandler (10 May 1922 – 21 April 2005) was a lens designer of Ernst Leitz Canada (Leica Camera) in Midland, Ontario. Mandler is credited with the...
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Retrieved 2021-03-31 – via Newspapers.com. Smith, Frank Dabba (2007). "Dr Ernst Leitz II of Wetzlar and the People He Helped During The Shoah: Research in Progress"...
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Shadowy History of the Secret Bank that Runs the World (2013) Christian Leitz (2000). Nazi Germany and Neutral Europe: During the Second World War. Manchester...
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Ian Kershaw (category Historians of World War II)
1993; reprinted on pp. 231–252 from The Third Reich edited by Christian Leitz, London: Blackwell, 1999, ISBN 0-631-20700-7 Stalinism and Nazism: Dictatorships...
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long-focal-length lens assemblies was pioneered by Ernst Leitz GmbH (Leitz) after World War II. Leitz laboratories discovered that lanthanum(III) oxide...
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Wehrmacht (redirect from World War II/Wehrmacht)
10. Tooze 2006, p. 181. Evans 2008, p. 333. Department of State 2016. Leitz 1998, p. 153. Taylor 1995, pp. 90–119. Kitchen 1994, pp. 39–65. Van Creveld...
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Hans-Adolf (1999). "The Structure of Nazi Foreign Policy, 1933-1945". In Leitz, Christian (ed.). The Third Reich The Essential Readings. Blackwell. pp...
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Overy, Richard (1999). "Germany, 'Domestic Crisis' and War in 1939". In Leitz, Christian (ed.). The Third Reich. Oxford: Blackwell. Perry, Matt (1999)...
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Ultron,: 5 a fast asymmetric double Gauss normal lens comparable to the Leitz Summicron and Zeiss Planar designs. This later was reformulated in 1968...
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(1999). "The Structure of Nazi Foreign Policy, 1933–1945". In Christian Leitz (ed.). The Third Reich: The Essential Readings. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing...
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Danzig crisis (category Danzig in World War II)
Overy, Richard (1999). "'Domestic Crisis' and War in 1939". In Christian Leitz (ed.). The Third Reich The Essential Readings. Oxford: Blackwell. pp. 95–128...
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World War] (in German). Vol. 1–13. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. Leitz, Christian (2000). Nazi Germany and Neutral Europe during the Second World...
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