Emil Busch

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Emil Busch (* 6. August 1820 in Berlin , † 1. April 1888 in Rathenow ) was a German industrialist of precision mechanics and optics . He was involved in the invention of the wide-angle lens .

Life

Emil Busch was the son of the Berlin businessman Ludwig Friedrich Busch and his wife Jeanette, the daughter of the entrepreneur Johann Heinrich August Duncker . In 1836 the Busch family moved from Berlin to Rathenow. In 1840 Emil Busch returned to Berlin to do an apprenticeship as a mechanic and optician. In 1845 he took over the Optical Industry Institute from his uncle Eduard Duncker . He began to equip the company with new machines, some of which he had built in his own mechanical workshop. The use of the new machines led to a significant increase in production figures, not least because they made it possible to manufacture much faster than by hand.

In 1852 Busch introduced that from then on his company also produced photographic equipment. In 1865 he brought out his first wide-angle lens "Pantoscop". He exchanged ideas with the founder of architectural photogrammetry, Albrecht Meydenbauer , about the technical implementation of a measuring image camera , which then came onto the market with this lens in 1867. In 1868 the king appointed Busch to the royal council of commerce because of his services . In 1872 he converted the company into a public company so that it could make the necessary investments more easily. It did this with the help of the Vereinsbank Quistorp & Co. The share capital of the stock corporation was 275,000 Taler. In the now established company Rathenower Optische Industrie-Anstalt, formerly Emil Busch A.-G. From then on, Emil Busch held a high position with the post of “Delegate of the Supervisory Board” and that of a Director.

The company subsequently achieved a dominant role in the market. Thanks to the unofficial agreements with the Zeiss company, it restricted free competition. Carl Zeiss let his son Roderich do a commercial apprenticeship at Busch. For his part, Busch contributed with an expert opinion that the state gave Zeiss' glass technology laboratory a subsidy of 35,000 thalers. Busch, who had never studied, died in 1888. Because of him and because of Johann and Eduard Dunckers, the town of Rathenow became a synonym for high-quality optical equipment.

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SURNAME Busch, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German industrialist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1888
Place of death Rathenow