Alexander Heinrich Rietzschel

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Alexander Heinrich Rietzschel

Alexander Heinrich Rietzschel (* 1860 in Dresden ; † 1939 ) was a German camera designer.

life and work

A. Heinrich Rietzschel trained as a precision mechanic and optician at Carl Zeiss in Jena . In 1886 he moved to Munich to the renowned optical company CA Steinheil and later to G. Rodenstock . Rietzschel went into business for himself with his company, "Optische Anstalt A. Hch Rietzschel GmbH, Munich, Gabelsberger Str. 36/37" in 1896 and manufactured camera lenses . From 1900 he built the camera “Clack 1900” and named his company in “A. Huh Rietzschel GmbH, Factory of Photographic Apparatus and Lenses ”, in which he already employed around 100 people in 1901. In 1905 he received a patent for an all-metal housing for a photo camera. In 1912 the workshops were relocated to Aberlestr. in Munich 7, where fifteen different camera models were manufactured in 1914.

A large number of our own lenses were available for all models. After the First World War , the company ran into economic difficulties. In 1921, the Bayer paint factories bought 80% of Rietzschel's company shares with half the voting rights. The remaining shares went to Bayer in 1924 , which made the businessman Bruno Uhl director of their Munich “Camera-Werke”. In December 1925, as part of the creation of IG Farben AG, Bayer's entire photo area was assigned to Agfa .

Products

  • Clack 1900 for 10 × 12.5 cm film or 9 × 12 cm plate with 8.5 lens
  • Clack for 10 × 15 and 13 × 18 cm
  • Stereo clack for 9 × 18 cm
  • Plate clack for 9 × 12 and 13 × 18 cm
  • Stereo record clack for 8.5 × 17 cm
  • Universal Heli-Clack for 9 × 12 and 10 × 15 cm
  • Universal Heli-Clack I Panorama for 13 × 18 cm
  • Auto-Clack 701 for 9 × 12 with double extension
  • Heli-Clack III for 9 × 12 cm
  • Heli-Tip 1 for 9 × 12
  • Reform Clack 111 for 6.5 × 9 cm
  • Kosmo-Clack Stereo for 45 × 107 mm

literature

  • Günther Kadlubeck, Rudolf Hillebrand: AGFA: History of a German global company from 1867 to 1997 Edition PHOTODeal, Neuss 1997, ISBN 3-89506-169-7

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Die Weltkunst , Volume 59, 1989, p. 3053.
personal data
SURNAME Rietzschel, Alexander Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German camera designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH 1939