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| Master watchmaker Walter Lange, the great-grandson of | Adolph Lange, was born in Dresden on 29 July 1924. He received his training in Karlstein (Austria) and Glashütte. |
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After the end of World War II, he and his entire family helped restore his parents' bomb-damaged "A. Lange & Söhne" manufactory. But the newly rebuilt firm was expropriated when Germany was divided in 1948; Walter Lange was summoned to work in a uranium mine but subsequently fled to the West to avoid this fate. An attempt undertaken together with his brother to re-establish "A. Lange & Söhne" in West Germany failed. |
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After 1976, Walter Lange had permission to regularly travel to Glashütte again and thus renewed his contacts with his hometown. On 7 December 1990, not long after Germany was reunited, Walter Lange founded Lange Uhren GmbH in Glashütte and re-registered the traditional "A. Lange & Söhne" brand around the world. He was quickly able to recruit talented employees from the large pool of trained watchmakers in Glashütte and with them proceeded to bring new life to the famous name "A. Lange & Söhne". |
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