The Total Wetzlar Experience with Bill Rosauer
You are invited to join Bill Rosauer, LHSA Viewfinder Editor and PresidentEmeritus, on a personal guided tour of Wetzlar and Leitz Park. Our group willbe limited to fifteen participants.
Highlights will include:
Tour of Leitz Park, including the Factory, Customer Care Department andMuseum. In addition, we have many special events planned at Leitz Park,including meeting with Stefan Daniel and Peter Karbe, Head of Lens Design atLeica. President Emeritus Jim Lager will participate in a special extended visitto the Leica Archives at Leitz Park. Leica AG will also provide loaner camerasand lenses to our group during our visit.
In old Wetzlar, you will stand on the very spot where Oskar Barnack took oneof the first images with the Ur-Leica. We will visit the old Leitz factoryHochhaus and adjacent Administration Building, the historic Hausertor Werkewhere the Leica was originally made, and also the site of the historic BoardMeeting of 1924 when Ernst Leitz II made the fateful decision to take the riskto make the Leica. A visit with Lars Netopil, VP of Leica Historica is planned athis shop and gallery in Wetzlar. During this visit, you will have a chance toobtain a personalized copy of Lars Netopil’s new book, “Museum Leica”.
Exclusive for our tour, are special guests Knut Kühn-Leitz, grandson of Ernst Leitz II, for a personal guided tour of Haus Friedwart, the Leitz family home.
The first tour is scheduled for the week of May 19 to May 24, 2019, with our home base being the Hotel Ernst Leitz at Leitz Park. A fall tour is planned for September 2019.
The tour includes six nights double occupancy lodging (single at additionalcost), all meals (alcohol not included) and transportation when requiredto tour locations. Participants are responsible for their own air fare andtransportation to Leitz Park.
Regular price for this tour will be $ 5,995.00. LHSA members will receive aspecial $ 500 discount from the regular tour price.
If you are interested in joining us, please email me at derleicaman@gmail.com or visit my website derleicamantours.com for more details.
