In
1932, George Eastman, owner of Kodak
purchased the Nagel Camerawerk in Stuttgart, Germany. Dr.
Nagel
was respected internationally as one of the top camera designers in the
German Photographic industry. Eastman agreed to let him run the company
his way and to ship the cameras with Kodak’s name on them. Kodak
acquired a prestige camera line with little more than the flourish of a
pen.