{"id":443,"count":4,"description":"Heinrich Wild (1877-1951)<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nHeinrich Wild was a geologist who trained with the Swiss Federal Office of Topography in Bern. Having had problems in the mountains with a conventional theodolite, he worked on a new design and patented it in 1907. In 1908, Wild moved with his wife and five children to Jena, Germany, where he joined the company Carl Zeiss\u00a0to build a new Department for geodetic instruments.\r\n\r\nAt the start of the 1920s, Wild returned to Switzerland where, on 26 April 1921, he founded his own company in partnership with Jacob Schmidheiny (1875-1955), and Robert Helbling (1874-1954) in Heerbrugg, Switzerland. The full name (translated) of the company was \u201cHeinrich Wild Workshop for Precision Mechanics and Optics\u201d, later \u201cWild Heerbrugg\u201d. In 1989 it became \u201cWild-Leitz AG\u201d. 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