Walter Zapp

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Limited edition Minox CLX, with Walter Zapp signature
Limited edition Minox CLX, with Walter Zapp signature

Walter Zapp (born September 4, 1905 in Riga, Latvia; died July 17, 2003 in Binningen near Basle, Switzerland) was the inventor of the subminiature camera (Minox).

In 1934, he began developing the then revolutionary subminiature camera by first creating wooden models, which led to the first prototype in 1936. It was introduced to the market in 1938. After World War II, in 1945, he founded the Minox GmbH in Wetzlar.

In 2001 at the age of 96, when visiting Tallinn, the city where he invented Minox, he still remembered Estonian, which he hadn't spoken since World War II.

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