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Dr. Rodehüser founded '''Dr. Rodehüser, Feinmechanischer Optischer Apparatebau''', a German company based in Heeßen, Westphalia. Its factory in Bergkamen, Westphalia, made still cameras. The company made the [[Panta]] [[viewfinder camera]]s for 120 and 127 [[rollfilm]], solid metal cameras with sturdy aluminium body. After bankruptcy Dr. Rodehüser refounded the company as [[Westfälische Kamera und Apparatebau|Westfälische Kamera- und Apparatebau]]. This company failed and Rodehüser fled to Brazil for a while. His consultant Heinrich Otterbach refounded the company as ''Feinmechanisch-optischer Gerätebau Schück & Co.''. Financing the new company was based on an act of fraud. Rodehüser and his consultant had misused the postwar credit program of the government to found a KG (commanditist company) which was not able to survive with the simple cameras that it had produced. At the end both had consumed 750.000 D-Mark state money for their experiment and ended in jail. | Dr. Rodehüser founded '''Dr. Rodehüser, Feinmechanischer Optischer Apparatebau''', a German company based in Heeßen, Westphalia. Its factory in Bergkamen, Westphalia, made still cameras. The company made the [[Panta]] [[viewfinder camera]]s for 120 and 127 [[rollfilm]], solid metal cameras with sturdy aluminium body. After bankruptcy Dr. Rodehüser refounded the company as [[Westfälische Kamera und Apparatebau|Westfälische Kamera- und Apparatebau]]. This company failed and Rodehüser fled to Brazil for a while. His consultant Heinrich Otterbach refounded the company as ''Feinmechanisch-optischer Gerätebau Schück & Co.''. Financing the new company was based on an act of fraud. Rodehüser and his consultant had misused the postwar credit program of the government to found a KG (commanditist company) which was not able to survive with the simple cameras that it had produced. At the end both had consumed 750.000 D-Mark state money for their experiment and ended in jail. | ||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
| − | *[http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-31969232.html Swindle and economic disaster around the Dr. Rodehüser factory] in [ | + | *[https://web.archive.org/web/20170418031058/http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-31969232.html Swindle and economic disaster around the Dr. Rodehüser factory] (archived) in [https://www.spiegel.de Spiegel Archiv] |
[[Category:German camera makers|Rodehüser]] | [[Category:German camera makers|Rodehüser]] | ||
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Dr. Rodehüser founded Dr. Rodehüser, Feinmechanischer Optischer Apparatebau, a German company based in Heeßen, Westphalia. Its factory in Bergkamen, Westphalia, made still cameras. The company made the Panta viewfinder cameras for 120 and 127 rollfilm, solid metal cameras with sturdy aluminium body. After bankruptcy Dr. Rodehüser refounded the company as Westfälische Kamera- und Apparatebau. This company failed and Rodehüser fled to Brazil for a while. His consultant Heinrich Otterbach refounded the company as Feinmechanisch-optischer Gerätebau Schück & Co.. Financing the new company was based on an act of fraud. Rodehüser and his consultant had misused the postwar credit program of the government to found a KG (commanditist company) which was not able to survive with the simple cameras that it had produced. At the end both had consumed 750.000 D-Mark state money for their experiment and ended in jail.
