Hugo Schrader (camera manufacturer)

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Hugo Schrader , (* unknown; † 1940 ) was a pioneer in the manufacture of photo cameras. He was married to Ruth, the daughter of the then renowned camera manufacturer Rudolf Krügener . He was the father of the camera designer Goetz Schrader .

Life

Schrader received his training at the Voigtländer company in Braunschweig. In 1900 he joined the company of his future father-in-law Rudolf Krügener.

Schrader founded Plaubel & Co. in 1902 , which he named after the name of his brother-in-law, Karl Plaubel. The company's business area initially included the trade and manufacture of photographic objects, lenses and accessories. Initially, only lenses were produced: the four-lens double ortar 1: 1.6 with focal lengths from 6 to 75 cm and the peconar 1: 8, 15 to 25 cm. It was not until 1909 that camera production began at the request of many customers (" Precision Peco ", a 9x12cm / 10x15cm walking floor camera with an air brake lock with three slats).

Another special development was a small scissors camera in which the drive mechanism of both scissors with micrometer drive was arranged in the front part. As a result, the front part of the camera with the lens carrier was guided absolutely parallel to the plane of the negative plate. In addition, the distance and shutter speed could be set with the device closed. This camera came on the market in 1912 as a miniature stereo camera (" Stereo-Makina ") in the format 4.5x10.7cm.

The brisk demand led to them also being produced as a single-frame camera 4.5x6cm.

  • Plaubel Makina 1912

At the beginning of July 1911, Schrader / das Plaubelwerk brought the MAKINA , a camera that went down in the history of photography. It was the only small camera of its time with a high-low adjustment of the lens.

After the First World War, the production of the MAKINA began as a 6.5x9cm model with an astonishing lens speed of 1: 3 for that time. From 1912 the Compur closure developed by the Friedrich Deckel company was built into the MAKINA .

In 1926 and 1927 Plaubel brought further improvements to its stereo cameras in the formats 6x13cm and 4.5x10.7cm.

In 1931, five years after his son Goetz joined the company, it was converted into a stock corporation.

In 1940, after the death of Hugo Schrader, Goetz took over the company and made it world-famous.

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SURNAME Schrader, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Photo camera manufacturing pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 1940