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* [[Mentorett]] | * [[Mentorett]] | ||
* Mentor Klapp | * Mentor Klapp | ||
| − | * Mentor Klapp-Reflex | + | * Mentor Klapp-Reflex (Folding Reflex cameras, as in the advertisement below right) |
* Mentor Stereo-Reflex | * Mentor Stereo-Reflex | ||
* Mentor Spiegel-Reflex-Kamera | * Mentor Spiegel-Reflex-Kamera | ||
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| 6x9 cm Mentor Studio Reflex with 180 mm f/4.5 Tessar portrait lens image by Klara Keler (Image rights) |
In 1898 Hugo Breutmann founded a company for production of cameras in Berlin. In 1899 the salesman Frantz Goltz joined as co-owner. The company was named Goltz & Breutmann OHG Fabrik für photographische Apparate. Its camera brand was Mentor and its specialty were cameras with focal plane shutters. A change of ownership didn't change the company name. Businessman Gustav Adolf Heinrich replaced Franz Goltz. Heinrich forced the further development of the company and its move to Dresden. During WWI the company made aerial cameras. Heinrich revived the civilian camera business after the war. In 1921 the company was renamed to Mentor Kamerafabrik Goltz & Breutmann, and in 1929 it had 180 employees. It was successful with its SLR cameras and avant garde with its Mentorett, a TLR with focal plane shutter.
The economic crisis after 1929 and the death of Heinrich in 1935 led to the decline of the company. In 1944 the master craftsman Rudolf Großer of A. Noble's company bought the company and restarted the business with 15 employees, but the factory was completely destroyed when Dresden was bombed in February 1945. Mentor nonetheless survived the war, and continued making large format cameras. The company was nationalised as VEB Mentor Großformatkameras Dresden in 1972 and was merged into VEB Pentacon in 1980.
| Camera industry in Dresden |
| Balda | Certo | Eho-Altissa | Eichapfel | Ernemann | Feinmess | Heyde | Hamaphot | Huth | Hüttig | ICA | Ihagee | Kochmann | Kerman | KW | Eugen Loeber | Ludwig | Mentor | Merkel | Meyer | Mimosa | Pentacon | Richter | Sommer | Stübiger | Unger & Hoffmann | Werner | Wünsche | Zeiss Ikon | Zeh |
| Camera distributors in Dresden |
| Stöckig |
| Camera industry in Freital |
| Beier | Pouva | Stein & Binnewerg | Thowe | Welta |
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| Advertisement for the Mentor Reflex Stereo Scan by Uwe Kulick (Image rights) |
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| Advertisement in Asahi Camera, March 1928. The right-hand headline reads German Breutmann Company: Mentor New-style Folding Reflex newly-arrived (the 1925 Klapp-Reflex); the centre section gives options for that camera, in 'Meishi' size (roughly 5x8 cm) and the left-hand columns are for the Square-style reflex, also in Meishi size. Scan by rebollo_fr (Image rights) |
Cameras
- Mentor
- Mentor II
- Mentor Standard
- Mentor Atelier-Reflex-Kamera
- Mentor Compur-Reflex-Kamera
- Klein-Mentor 9x9
- Klein-Mentor Spiegelreflex 6x9
- Mentor Dreivier
- Mentorett
- Mentor Klapp
- Mentor Klapp-Reflex (Folding Reflex cameras, as in the advertisement below right)
- Mentor Stereo-Reflex
- Mentor Spiegel-Reflex-Kamera
- Mentor Sport-Reflex-Kamera
- Mentor Reflex
Links
- Mentor at Dresdner-kameras.de (in German).
Bibliography
Herbert Blumtritt, Die Geschichte der Dresdner Fotoindustrie, Stuttgart 2000. ISBN 389506212X
