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Analysis: History of Carl Zeiss Company Overview Carl Zeiss Company was founded in Jena, Germany in 1846 by Mr. Carl Zeiss.

The company began as a workshop that mainly manufactured precision machinery and optical instruments. The business was prosperous and continued for a long time.

With the application of Mr. Ernst Abbe's outstanding scientific achievements, it has gradually become a global leader in the field of optical equipment and instruments.

This successful experience lasted for a full century.

With the end of World War II, Germany was forcibly separated, and Zeiss was split into two: half in West Germany and half in East Germany.

As the political situation in East Germany changed in 1989/1990, the two competitors merged into one company in 1990.

After the reorganization of the company, Carl Zeiss became stronger than at any time in its history.

Today, Carl Zeiss is looking to the future with confidence and expectations of victory.

Early days 1846 Carl Zeiss established a precision machinery and optical instrument workshop in Jena, Germany.

1847 Production of microscopes begins. 1866 Ernst Abbe and Carl Zeiss begin cooperation. 1872 Abbe's microscope imaging theory revolutionizes the microscope.

1884 Otto Schott, Ernst Abbe, Carl Zeiss and Roderich Zeiss founded the "Jena Glassworks Cooperative" 1889 Ernst Abbe founded the Carl Zeiss Foundation (Carl Zeiss Foundation) 1891 Ernst Abbe authorized the Carl Zeiss Foundation to be Zeiss

The sole owner of the factory.

German Secession 1945 Part of the Jena factory is destroyed in the war; US troops take away 126 managers and scientists and send them to US military-occupied zones.

1946 The Optical Engineering Company, later renamed the Carl Zeiss Company, continues to operate as a major enterprise in the west 1948 The Zeiss and Schott factories belonging to the Carl Zeiss Foundation in Jena are confiscated; the Zeiss factory becomes a state enterprise, named

: VEB Carl Zeiss Jena 1949 The state of Baden-Wuerttemberg*** establishes Heidenheim as the legal address of the Carl Zeiss Foundation.

Due to the political division of Germany, the factories in Jena and Oberkochen operated in their own ways.

1965 VEB Carl Zeiss Jena became the leading enterprise in the precision machinery and optical industry of the Democratic Republic of Germany; VEB Carl Zeiss Jena began to become a corporate group.

1971 Signing of the London Agreement.

The agreement provides for the rights to use the Zeiss name and trademark.

The period of German reunification in 1990. The political changes in the Democratic Republic of Germany led to changes in the relationship between Zeiss's eastern and western enterprises.

Biebelried's companies said they were preparing to merge with the Carl Zeiss Foundation.

1991 Baden-Wuerttemberg, the trust group responsible for the privatization of East German industrial enterprises (Treuhandanstalt), and Thuringia, Jenoptik GmbH, Carl Zeiss, Jenaer Glass GmbH and Schott Glassworks signed a basic agreement stipulating that the address of the Carl Zeiss Foundation will be

Definitely in Jena and Heidenheim.

1995 Carl Zeiss Oberkochen acquires the shares of Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH from Jenoptik GmbH (a Thuringian company).

1996 Carl Zeiss 150th anniversary We are fully prepared to enter the 21st century 1998 Carl Zeiss is a world-leading optical instrument manufacturer with expertise in microscopy and industrial measurement technology, high-performance lenses for microchip manufacturing,

It is a leader in surgical microscopy technology and ophthalmic diagnostic and treatment systems.