Richter
Kamera-Werk C. Richter[1] Tharandt[2] is the new name, adopted in 1932, of the company Camera-Werk Merkel, founded in 1900. It was based in Tharandt, Germany, and produced the Reflecta TLR around 1933. After the war, this company was succeeded by Lipca in West-Germany and by an East German company called Reflecta Kamera-Werke Tharandt from 1946 to 1948 then simply Kamera-Werk Tharandt from 1948 to 1950.[3]
The East-German company was merged into Welta in 1950 to form VEB Welta-Kamera-Werk. This company made the Reflekta II. VEB Welta in turn became part of the large VEB Kamera- und Kinowerk Dresden in 1959, a state owned conglomerate of East-German cameramakers that was to become VEB Pentacon in 1964.
6×6 TLR
Notes
- ↑ There was maybe another camera company called Richter, possibly a distributor from the beginning of the 20th century: a plate engraved H. RICHTER Berlin, Optische Centrale, Spittelmarkt has been reported on a magazine box camera taking 9×12cm film plates, that has some similarity with cameras made by Ernemann.
- ↑ According to dresdner-kameras.de, the word "Tharandt" was part of the full name. Other sources, including McKeown and the site praktica-collector.de are ambiguous on this point.
- ↑ According to the site dresdner-kameras.de. The site praktica-collector.de mentions one name only: "VEB Reflecta Kamerawerk Tharandt", and says that this company only existed in 1946, that is probably a mistake. McKeown only mentions "Kamera-Werk Tharandt" for the period running from 1946 to 1950.
Links
- Genealogy of East-German companies eventually incorporated into Pentacon at praktica-collector.de
- There is a short history of Zeh, in German, at dresdner-kameras.de (see under "Firmen").
