housewife-entrepreneur Melitta Bentz who invented and developed it. Bentz was born Melitta Leibscher in Dresden, where her father was a book salesman. She married Hugo Bentz in her home city. As a housewife she [...] on packets of filter papers and in 1928 the company employed 80 people. Due to a lack of space in Dresden, in 1929 she moved with the company to the town of Minden near Hanover. She transferred the business

Friedrich von Reden (1752-1815). Heynitz was born at Meissen in Saxony and studied in that state at Dresden and Freiberg. From 1747 he worked for the mines administration in Brunswick which managed metalliferous

locomotive engineer, Louis Adolf Golsdorf (1837-1911), a Viennese who was trained in Chemnitz and Dresden, and became chief mechanical engineer of the Austrian Sudbahn. Karl Golsdorf was born at Semmering

subsidiary company to make cameras with Zeiss lenses for the mass-market, Zeiss Ikon, was formed in Dresden in 1926. It was managed by Emanuel Goldberg, until he was forced by the Third Reich government to

line from Selby to Hull from 1834. The following year he surveyed the line between Leipzig and Dresden, often regarded as the first long-distance railway in Germany. He became engineer to the Surrey

his earliest years, that was combined with a deep interest in wild life. He studied photography at Dresden, and then in France and in the United States, where he stayed as a guest of George Eastman at Rochester

Friedrich Beyer was the son of a weaver from Plauen in Saxony, and studied at the polytechnic in Dresden, before taking advantage of a travel grant in 1834 to study in England. He declined offers of employment