In 1912 Hugo Schrader introduced the first Plaubel Makina, a compact bellows camera with a scissors-struts design.
During World War II Plaubel was converted to manufacture precision military gear but was bombed and seriously damaged in 1944.
After World War II ended in 1945, Schrader designed and produced a number of large-format Peco monorail studio view cameras.
Goetz Schrader died in 1997 but Plaubel continued to produce large format monorail cameras like the Peco Profia until 2017.
They also made a 6×9 cm/2-14x3-1/4 inch medium-format Peco monorail view camera for digital and roll film photography (PL69D).