[rollei_list] Re: Rollei TLR - The History by Ian Parker
- From: Carlos Manuel Freaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 02:42:44 +0000 (GMT)
From 1933 F&H rejected several camera designs with
nazis symbols, f.e. the "Nakaflex" with the swastika
at the camera front panel, F&H never used nazis
symbols for their cameras and on 1939 F&H suspended a
giant international photo contest dedicated to
celebrate the important first prize the TLR Automat
won in the Paris World Expo due to the war. BTW they
were within Germany and Herr Heidecke used the brown
uniform like factory technical chief during the war,
Heidecke's son died in Stalingrad, but Rollei did
nothing important for the war, a few secondaries gears
for Panzers only.
Part of the Rollei factory was in ruins when the
Nineth US Army occupied it in 1945, they declared the
factory Off limits for Germans, however they allowed
Herr Friedrich Sommermayer, a F&H engineer, to work in
the factory to rebuild the cameras drawings and
diagrams from separate drawings found in different
departments.
Franke and Heidecke starting negotiations with the
American and afterwards with the British military
government to recover the factory and the Rolleiflex
and Rolleicord cameras manufacture began on December
1945 again with 72 workers.-
All the best
Carlos
--- Jeffery Smith <jls@xxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
> Rollei, like many other corporations in the 30's,
> were supportive of the
> Nazi party prior to the war. When the war was over,
> they resented the
> British occupation at first, but warmed up to them
> after interacting with
> the British for a while. I think that Rollei was
> embarassed over having
> utilized a Jewish photographer for Hitler's photo
> shoot as it would raise
> eyebrows.
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Marvin Wallace
> Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 8:43 PM
> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Rollei TLR - The History
> by Ian Parker
>
>
> Jeffrey,
> Embarrassing, from whose perspective, the Nazis or
> Mr. Kahn's? Also who was
> supportive of the Nazi party? Please clarify.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Jeffery Smith
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 9:25 AM
> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Rollei TLR - The History
> by Ian Parker
>
> No, it wasn't a matter of F&H turning him in. Soon
> after the incident he
> disappeared with other Jews to a concentration camp.
> I think the embarrasing
> part was probably inadvertently involving a Jewish
> photographer in the
> picture shoot after being supportive of the Nazi
> party.
>
> I also wonder if the Theodore/Rolleiflex T incident
> really resulted in the
> man being fired or if his sudden departure was
> unrelated.
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Carlos Manuel Freaza
> Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 7:58 PM
> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Rollei TLR - The History
> by Ian Parker
>
>
> Prochnow tells that story maybe a bit different, he
> mentions Ian Parker's book "Rollei TLR-The history".
> F&H was working on the 9x9 third protoype, they did
> only fourteen of these prototypes from hand-made
> parts. The first prototype went to the photographer
> Salomon Kahn who used it to photograph Adolf Hitler.
> Kahn exhibited these photographs taken with the 9x9
> prototype successfully, however the photographs
> started to disappear when it became known that Kahn
> was a jew, he soon died in a concentration camp, but
> it was a Gestapo action, it was not F&H action.
> F&H began to develop larger format cameras on 1930
> before the nazi era with the 7x9 prototype.-
>
> All the best
> Carlos
> --- Jeffery Smith <jls@xxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
>
> > Rollei TLR: The History : The Complete Book on the
> > Origins of Twin-Lens
> > Photography
> > by Ian Parker
> >
> > The black eye: When Rollei was working on the
> > prototypes for a 9x9 studio
> > camera, a rather pro-Nazi Rolleiflex had a
> > professional photographer take
> > Hitler's portrait with one of them for use in
> > creating some postage stamps
> > wit the Fuhrer's likeness. When it was discovered
> > that the photographer was
> > Jewish, everyone panicked, the photographer was
> > later carted off, and the
> > studio camera project was scuttled.
> >
> > Jeffery Smith
> > New Orleans, LA
> > http://www.400tx.com
> > http://400tx.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Douglas Nygren
> > Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 4:56 PM
> > To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Rollei TLR - The
> History
> > by Ian Parker
> >
> >
> > Thank you for the overview. What is the name of
> the
> > book and the
> > author's full name?
> >
> > What was the black eye?
> > Doug
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sep 4, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Jeffery Smith wrote:
> >
> > > It's a history of how Rollei got started up at
> the
> > turn of the 20th
> > > century
> > > by Franke & Heidecke, their initial product line
> > (stereo cameras) and
> > > then
> > > the subsequent history of their TLRs (through
> both
> > wars). It's a fairly
> > > quick read, but gives you some sort of insight
> > into how large the
> > > company
> > > grew, when it reached its pinnacle, and how the
> > SLR ultimately brought
> > > it
> > > down. A nice overview of the company's history
> > with only one
> > > unfortunately
> > > "black eye" that occurred around WWII.
> > >
> > > Jeffery Smith
> > > New Orleans, LA
> > > http://www.400tx.com
> > > http://400tx.blogspot.com/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:rollei_list-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> > Behalf Of Douglas Nygren
> > > Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 12:16 PM
> > > To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Rollei TLR - The
> > History by Ian Parker
> > >
> > >
> > > Jeffrey: I don't know this book. Tell me more
> > about it, please.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Doug
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sep 4, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Jeffery Smith
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> I just finished reading Ian Parker's book (for
> > the second time...I
> > >> was a Rollei neophyte the first time I read
> it).
> > I noticed this
> > >> morning that there
> > >> are two copies of it for sale on e**y. If you
> > live and breathe Rollei,
> > >> it's
> > >> a good read.
> > >>
> > >> Jeffery Smith
> > >> New Orleans, LA
>
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