Due to the partition of Germany in World War II, the original company was divided into two parts.
One is Carl Zeiss in Oberkochen, which has two important subsidiary factories in G? ttingen [1] Allen and Halberg Moss. The other is Carl Zeiss Jena Co., Ltd., located in Jena, with satellite factories such as Milmel nearby.
Carl Zeiss is the first component of Zeiss Group and one of the two major components of Carl Zeiss-Carl Zeiss Foundation.
Zeiss Group is located in Heidenheim. Carl zeiss ·VEB of East Germany is a company in Jena.
The history of Carl Zeiss Co., Ltd. began in Jena before World War II, when it was the largest camera product base in the world. Zeiss Ikon is an important symbol among many brands and manufacturers. 1849, Carl Zeiss established Zeiss precision mechanical optics factory in Jena. After the war, after Germany was divided between the United States and Russia, Zeiss was divided into three parts.
Although the United States and the Soviet Union reached an agreement on the conditions for dividing up Germany in the Yalta Peace Treaty, Jena is located in East Germany and should be occupied by the Soviet Union. However, General Patton's Third Army still crossed the border and invaded Dresden, where Jena and Zeiss' factories were located.
Under general Patton's threats and inducements, in the name of "assistance", some technicians and equipment were evacuated overnight at the fastest speed and transferred to their own site-Desi. As a result, 127 scientists and engineers from Jena, East Germany, were plundered by German-American occupied areas such as Shanghai Cohen (located in southwest Germany) and Brunswick.
At the same time, carl zeiss Foundation moved to Stuttgart, Germany and West Germany occupied by the United States, and carl zeiss Company was established. This Zeiss is the blue label carl zeiss that we are familiar with at present.
When the Soviet Union took over Jena, there were only empty factories and some first-class optical glass and production machines, which the US military could not take away. The Soviet Union plundered these surplus resources and shipped them back to the Soviet Union, Ukraine and Kiev on the grounds of war compensation. After the Soviet Union arrived in Jena, it immediately seized all the machines in Zeiss factory as war compensation materials, and airlifted some remaining scientists back to Russia to work for the Russian optical industry for several years.
However, Jena and Dresden are, after all, important optical equipment production centers for nearly a century. Even though it was plundered by the United States and the Soviet Union, local technicians soon restored the Zeiss factory in Jena, East Germany, named Carl Zeiss Jena, to distinguish it from Carl Zeiss AG in West Germany.
Since 1990s, German Zeiss Carl Zeiss companies in Dresden and surrounding areas have tried their best to develop some new technologies, such as products for industrial automation.
However, Zeiss Carl Zeiss AG in West Germany is still the manufacturer of lens blanks. So far, no camera has been made, and even Zeiss Ikon's series are mainly based on Japanese Cosina, so there is no complete set of bayonet and fuselage.
The Contax brand of carl zeiss company owned by German Zeiss has been acquired by Japanese Kyocera company Yashica. Kyocera developed various bayonet systems such as Contax 645/Contax/Yashica bayonet (C/Y bayonet) /N bayonet (N bayonet) based on its own existing technology, and then launched the world's first Kodak model 135 Quan Huafu digital SLR Contax N Digital.
Carl Zeiss AG's products and electronic technology, and Zeiss in West Germany, were all developed in Japan. Carl Zeiss AG in West Germany can only do photometry at most, and even the technology of autofocus AF is made by Kyocera Group of Japan and Bazhou Optics. Carl Zeiss did not master these technologies.
Pentacon and Praktica belong to CZJ, a subsidiary of German Zeiss, and have nothing to do with Carl Zeiss AG, a subsidiary of German Zeiss. The lenses produced by this factory are all marked with Carl Zeiss Jena (some are also marked with DDR), which is quite easy to distinguish. The camera of M42 system and the media film system of Pentacon Six(P6) are independent. Zeiss has the lens of the space telescope.
After World War II, all related technologies such as R&D and innovation were dominated by Kyocera Group and Cocina.
At this point, Carl Zeiss AG, in the camera industry, has made several exchange lenses for Contek, and all the others have been developed by Japan.
The blue Zeiss trademark has always represented cutting-edge optics and high price. The metal mirror body and elegant workmanship make many users fondle it.
Zeiss licensed the technology to a third-party company for production. Notable names include Hasselblad, Lorai, Estelle, Sony, Logitech and Alpa. One of the most famous Contax 35mm cameras was produced by Yashica and Kyocera until 2005.