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An amazing number of high-precision optical and other quite different products have been shipped from the Hamburg laboratories to countries around the world. Although some have long since been forgotten, Kruess Optronics continues to have a world wide reputation for quality and innovation.

But let us return to the origins, to 1796 and the Hamburg workshop of Edmund Gabory, ”Mechanicus Opticus”.......

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Kruess P-8000 Automatic Digital Polarimeter The new automatic digital Polarimeter, P8000 utilizes a novel measuring system for optically active liquids. This new development reduces the measuring time to 1 sec irrespective of the angle of a sample. The P8000 is used in many applications across industries including, Chemicals, Pharmaceutical, Bio Technology, and Food & Beverage.

Gabory was trained in London by Jesse Ramsden, the world famous optician, at a time when precision engineering was flourishing. On finishing his training in1790, Edmund set up a workshop of his own. In 1796 he moved with his family to Hamburg. As a talented optical engineer, he established his career and his business prospered. In 1813 Gabory died and in 1823 Gabory’s daughter Mary Ann married Andres Krüss.
Andres Krüss led the company to further success, adding nautical instruments and charts to their product range. In 1844 Andres Krüss established a company of his own, Optical Institute A. Krüss.After his death, the company was run by his widow who handed it over to her sons Edmund and William in 1851.

In 1859 Edmund Krüss set up the company’s lens grinding facility and to demonstrate the quality of his photographic lenses opened a photographic studio. He was awarded first prize for his lenses at the World Exhibition in London in 1862 and 1865 patented his famous Magic Lantern, forerunner of the cinema projector.

Edmund’s son Hugo took over the management of the company in 1888. In a period of many new inventions and scientific developments, Dr. Hugo Krüss established himself as a pioneer in theoretical and applied photometry; his "Manual of Electromechanical Photometry" became a standard work.
In 1904 Hugo’s son, Dr. Paul Krüss joined the family company at the age of only 24. Paul Krüss was a ”master craftsman with a doctorate”; he managed the company from 1920 through many troubled times. Using his international connections in the world of science, he developed a range of scientific instruments including laboratory equipment for schools.

Andres Krüss, Paul’s son, was an engineer and became a partner in 1946 in the 5th generation. Due to his hard work during the ”German Economic Miracle”, Andres secured new customers and new markets. Dr. Paul Krüss died in 1976 at the age of 96. No one else had ever run the company so long.

Today the company is run in the 6th generation by Martina Krüss-Leibrock, who took over A. Krüss in 1980. Martina is the daughter of Andres who died in 1992. And today the company A. Krüss remains famous for high-precision, state-of-the-art measuring instruments. Traditional craftsman’s art of precision engineering has been perfectly combined with innovative electronic technology.