Perutz

Type No. 126 film cassette, positive film image by Nicholas Middleton (Image rights)

Otto Perutz (born 1847 in Teplice, died 1922 in München) was a chemist who has finished his studies in Zurich with a degree dissertation about a photo-chemical topic and became manager of a factory for chemicals. In 1880 he founded his own enterprise, a factory for making dry plates. This became the Perutz Photowerke. The company was bought in 1964 by concurrent Agfa. Then the brand Perutz which had become famous for color slide film was kept alive for a while.