The Meyer-Optik Story
Based in Görlitz, a designation that often appears on their lenses, the “Optisch-Mechanische Industrie-Anstalt Hugo Meyer & Co.” was founded in 1896 by the optician Hugo Meyer and the merchant Heinrich Schätze. The maker, in co-operation with Paul Rudolph, was an early pioneer (from 1918) of Plasmat lens manufacture, and rapidly expanded between 1920-1942, largely …