Background
Carl Paul Goerz was born on July 21, 1854 in Brandenburg, Germany.
Carl Paul Goerz was born on July 21, 1854 in Brandenburg, Germany.
Carl Goerz started a business selling drawing instruments, slide rules and similar apparatus in Berlin in 1886, adding photographic apparatus the next year. In 1888 he started a photographic workshop, where he built the first Goerz plate camera and aplanat lens.
In 1891 Carl Goerz constructed a focal plane camera based on Ottomar Anschuetz' patent, and the next year he made the famous Goerz Double Anastigmat, thanks to an idea from Emil von Hoegh. A folding Goerz-Anschuetz box camera was marketed in 1894, the same year in which Goerz established an eight -hour day for his employees. The camera maker set up a small factory in Winterstein, Thuringia, in 1895 to grind lenses, and a large factory in Friedenau in 1898.
In the next few years Carl Goerz brought out a photographic stereo binocular (1899), the famous wide-angle Hypergon lens (1900) and a Pantar lens (1902). He set up an optical plant in New York in 1902, and in 1903 he built a triple projector for Miethe's 3-color pictures, as well as making a reproduction anastigmat lens and changing the company name to A. G. C. P. Goerz.
