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The development history of Carl Zeiss, its main products and the fields involved, etc. The more detailed the better!

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History of Carl Zeiss AG

Overview

Carl Zeiss AG was founded in 1846 by Mr. Carl Zeiss in Jena, Germany. 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 *** jointly founded the "Jena Glassworks Cooperative"

1889 Ernst Abbe founded the Carl Zeiss Foundation (Carl Zeiss Foundation)

1891 Ernst Abbe authorizes the Carl Zeiss Foundation as the sole owner of the Zeiss factory.

The period of German separation

1945 Part of the Jena factory was destroyed in the war; the US army took away 126 managers and scientists and sent them to the US military occupation district.

1946 Optical Engineering Company, now renamed Carl Zeiss AG, continues to operate as a major business in the west

1948 Zeiss and Carl Zeiss Foundation in Jena The Schott factory was confiscated; the Zeiss factory became a state-owned enterprise, named: Jena VEB Carl Zeiss

1949 Baden-Wuerttemberg state *** transferred to 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

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, Agreement It is stipulated that the addresses of the Carl Zeiss Foundation will be determined in Jena and Heidenheim.

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

1996 Carl Zeiss 150th Anniversary

We are fully prepared to move into the 21st century

1998 Carl Zeiss is a world-leading optical instrument manufacturer , it is a leader in microscopy and industrial measurement technology, high-performance lenses for microchip manufacturing, surgical microscopy, and ophthalmic diagnostic and therapeutic systems.

2000 The Carl Zeiss Group breaks through 26 areas and focuses its business on four growth markets: semiconductor processes and microelectronics, life sciences, eye protection and industrial measurement technology.

2000 Carl Zeiss is confident in the future of semiconductor technology. As a result, Carl Zeiss built Europe's most modern new factory in Oberkochen to manufacture optical lithography systems and set new standards. Later, the new factory covered an area of ??45,000 square meters and employed approximately 1,000 people.

Starting in October 2001, the Semiconductor Process Business Unit was renamed Carl Zeiss SMT AG as an independently operated company under Carl Zeiss.

2002 The Ophthalmology Division and Ascleption-Meditec AG merge to form Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, thus giving the Carl Zeiss Group its first listed subsidiary.