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Carl Zeiss AG
Headquarters in Oberkochen
Company type
Aktiengesellschaft
Industry
Imaging
Founded
Jena, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German Confederation 1846; 178 years ago (1846)
Founder
Carl Zeiss
Headquarters
Oberkochen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Key people
Karl Lamprecht,[1] CEO and President
Products
Semiconductor lithography equipment, light, electron and ion microscopes, coordinate-measuring machines, medical devices, eyeglasses, binoculars, spotting scopes, telescopes, planetarium projectors, and other optical equipment.
Revenue
€10,108 million[2] (2022/23)
Operating income
EBIT €1,686 million[2] (2022/23)
Owner
Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung
Number of employees
42,992 (30 September 2023)[2]
Carl Zeiss AG (/zaɪs/ZYSE, German:[kaʁlˈtsaɪs]),[3][4] branded as ZEISS, is a German manufacturer of optical systems and optoelectronics, founded in Jena, Germany in 1846 by optician Carl Zeiss. Together with Ernst Abbe (joined 1866) and Otto Schott (joined 1884) he laid the foundation for today's multinational company. The current company emerged from a reunification of Carl Zeiss companies in East and West Germany with a consolidation phase in the 1990s.[5] ZEISS is active in four business segments with approximately equal revenue (Industrial Quality and Research, Medical Technology, Consumer Markets and Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology) in almost 50 countries, has 30 production sites and around 25 development sites worldwide.[6]
Carl Zeiss AG is the holding of all subsidiaries within Zeiss Group, of which Carl Zeiss Meditec AG is the only one that is traded at the stock market. Carl Zeiss AG is owned by the foundation Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung. The Zeiss Group has its headquarters in southern Germany, in the small town of Oberkochen, with its second largest, and founding site, being Jena in eastern Germany. Also controlled by the Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung is the glass manufacturer Schott AG, located in Mainz and Jena. Carl Zeiss is one of the oldest existing optics manufacturers in the world.[7]
^Executive Board of Carl Zeiss AG
^ abc"Key Figures". zeiss.com. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
^Krech, Eva-Maria; Stock, Eberhard; Hirschfeld, Ursula; Anders, Lutz Christian (2009). Deutsches Aussprachewörterbuch [German Pronunciation Dictionary] (in German). Berlin: de Gruyter. p. 1066. ISBN 978-3-11-018202-6.
^Wells, John C. (2008), Longman Pronunciation Dictionary (3rd ed.), Longman, ISBN 9781405881180
^"The Carl Zeiss Story – 20 Years of Reunification at Carl Zeiss". zeiss.com. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
^"ZEISS Group – International Segments and Sites". zeiss.com. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
^"ZEISS Group – Company History Overview and Sources". zeiss.com. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
CarlZeissAG (/zaɪs/ ZYSE, German: [kaʁl ˈtsaɪs]), branded as ZEISS, is a German manufacturer of optical systems and optoelectronics, founded in Jena...
In 1846 he founded his workshop, which is still in business as CarlZeissAG. Zeiss gathered a group of gifted practical and theoretical opticians and...
in May 1903 by workers at the CarlZeissAG optics factory as the company-sponsored Fussball-Club der Firma CarlZeiss. The club underwent name changes...
CarlZeiss Meditec AG is a multinational medical technology company and subsidiary of CarlZeissAG. It manufactures tools for eye examinations and medical...
Contessa-Nettel [de] AG in Stuttgart was one of the companies that merged to form the Zeiss Ikon AG in 1926. When the modern Zeiss lens was designed by Bertele, Zeiss re-used...
for the manufacture of microchips. The company is majority owned by CarlZeissAG, with a 24.9% minority stake by ASML Holding. The headquarters of the...
of its sister enterprise CarlZeiss (Oberkochen) to become a legally independent Aktiengesellschaft—Schott AG. The CarlZeiss Foundation remains the sole...
The Zeiss ZX1 is a full-frame (35mm) fixed-lens digital camera produced by CarlZeissAG. It was announced in 2018, released in 2020, and discontinued...
by CarlZeissCarlZeiss Foundation, holding company for several Zeiss companies CarlZeiss Meditec AG, a Zeiss subsidiary CarlZeiss SMT, a Zeiss subsidiary...
articles on lens names: Tessar" (PDF). Camera Lens News (CLN) (39th ed.). CarlZeissAG, Camera Lens Division. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-02-17...
The Zeiss Planar is a photographic lens designed by Paul Rudolph at CarlZeiss in 1896. Rudolph's original was a six-element symmetrical double Gauss lens...
A Zeiss projector is one of a line of planetarium projectors manufactured by the CarlZeiss Company. Main models include Copernican (1924), Model I (1925)...
used by Epson, Ricoh, Minolta, Konica, Cosina Voigtländer, Rollei, CarlZeissAG and Rollei Fototechnic on some of their cameras. The Leica M mount was...
Together with Otto Schott and CarlZeiss, he developed numerous optical instruments. He was also a co-owner of CarlZeissAG, a German manufacturer of scientific...
Montreal". This was based on an arrangement of aspherical surfaces. The CarlZeissAG & Varilux lenses were the first PAL of modern design. Bernard Maitenaz...
production, in both 1.3x (for Super 16 mm) and 2x (for standard 16 mm). CarlZeissAG and ARRI developed their Master Anamorphic lens line, debuted in September...
vehicles. It was developed by Ing Gaertner of the German optics company CarlZeissAG beginning in 1941. According to other sources, it was developed by AEG...
microscope. It was invented in 1904 by physicist Carl Pulfrich at CarlZeissAG, then constituted as Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung. In photographs taken a few days apart...
laboratory in Heidelberg. From 1934 he worked at the CarlZeissAG company in Jena. While at Zeiss, in 1935, Smakula invented and patented interference-based...
in 1992. The Arriflex 435 was released in 1994. Arri partnered with CarlZeissAG in order to develop and manufacture advanced lenses for the motion picture...
Biogon is the brand name of CarlZeiss for a series of photographic camera lenses, first introduced in 1934. Biogons are typically wide-angle lenses. Biogon...
(Super-Rotator). In 2006 Hartblei started a collaboration with CarlZeissAG, adapting Zeiss lens designs for tilt-shift use. Using the unique Super-Rotator...
pioneers of the Jenaer industry were CarlZeiss and Ernst Abbe (with their CarlZeissAG) as well as Otto Schott (Schott AG). Since that time, production of...
Global Information
€10,108 million[2] (2022/23)