Ernst leitz ii biography of william hill
Ernst Leitz II: The man who defied the Gestapo to rescue the ...!
Ernst leitz ii biography of william hill
Ernst Leitz II
German entrepreneur and humanitarian
Ernst Leitz II (1 March 1871 – 15 June 1956) was a German business person and humanitarian. He was the second head of the optics company now known as Leica Camera and organized the Leica Freedom Train to allow people, most of whom were Jewish, to escape from Germany during Nazi times.
Life
Ernst Leitz was the second son of the entrepreneur Ernst Leitz I. After an apprenticeship as a mechanic in his father's business and training as a merchant, Leitz joined the company as a partner in 1906 and became sole shareholder after his father's death in 1920.
Leitz initially devoted himself to the development of new microscopes, in particular the world's first binocular microscope that could also be used for high magnifications, which was launched in 1913. The large Leitz Ortholux [de] research microscope with built-in illumination (1935) also became a great success.
The Leica, a 35 mm camera developed by Leitz's