Leitz
Leitz is the name of the following company:
- Leitz (optics) , company founded by Ernst Leitz in Wetzlar in 1869 as an optical institute , best known for the Leica camera
- Leitz (office articles) , company for office organization aids founded by Louis Leitz in Feuerbach near Stuttgart in 1871
- Leitz (tools) , manufacturer of tools, especially for woodworking, founded by Albert Leitz in Oberkochen in 1876
Leitz is the family name of the following people:
- Albert Leitz († 1951), founder of the Gebr. Leitz tool factory in Oberkochen
- Christian Leitz (* 1960), German Egyptologist
- Cornelia Kühn-Leitz (1937–2016), German actress and reciter
- Elsie Kühn-Leitz (1903–1985), German lawyer and founding president of the VDFG, daughter of Ernst Leitz junior
- Ernst Leitz I (1843–1920), German industrialist
- Ernst Leitz II (1871–1956), German industrialist
- Ernst Leitz III (1906–1979), German politician (CDU) and entrepreneur
- Günther Leitz (1914–1969), German industrialist
- Heinrich Leitz (1886–1930), German civil engineer
- Louis Leitz (1846–1918), mechanic from Württemberg, inventor of the Leitz folder
- Theodard Leitz (1915–1999), German religious, Bishop of Dourados in Brazil
