Goerz (company)

During the First World War, Goerz's main production was for the German and Austrian military.

C. P. Goerz also made a series of telescopic sights for sporting rifles that saw some use during the shortage of military sniping rifles experienced during the early stages of the trench warfare that was to characterise much of the First World War.

In 1926 the German branch of Goerz merged with ICA, Contessa-Nettel and Ernemann to form Zeiss Ikon.

Thus the European Dagor lenses were made by Carl Zeiss Jena in limited number.

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