====== Lange, Walter ======
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**Walter Lange** was a German watchmaker and watch entrepreneur.

===== Biography =====
Walter Lange, the son of [[Lange, Rudolf|Rudolf Lange]] and great-grandson of the famous founder [[Ferdinand Adolph Lange]], was born in [[1924]]. According to the family tradition, he completed a training as master watchmaker in Karlstein and [[Glashütte]]. [[1942]], at the age of 18, he was called for military service. Because of becoming severely wounded on May 7, [[1945]], Lange returned to [[Glashütte]] and there, a few hours before the war ceasefire, was forced to witness the almost complete destruction of the main building of the [[manufacture]] by bombs.

[[1948]], the company [[A. Lange & Söhne]] was nationalized. This resulted in the company [[Lange VEB]].

Walter Lange was obliged to labor service in uranium mining, but eluded this arbitrariness by fleeing to West Germany, where, together with his brother Ferdinand Adolf, he started the experiment to rebuild the company [[A. Lange & Söhne]] in [[Pforzheim]] under the traditional name "Original Lange Uhr". However there was no economical success. During this time Walter Lange could build important contacts with the Swiss watch [[manufacture]] [[IWC|IWC - International Watch Co. Schaffhausen]] and their head [[Blümlein, Günter|Günter Blümlein]]. They helped him to organize the founding of the [[Lange Uhren GmbH]] on December 7, [[1990]], exactly 145 years to the day after the founding of the company [[A. Lange & Söhne]].

Walter Lange won the Special Jury Prize at the [[Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Genève]] in November, [[2014]].

Lange passed away on January 17, [[2017]].

===== Video =====
  * [[A. Lange & Söhne Walter Lange Video|Walter Lange - Uhrmacher in vierter Generation]] (German)

===== Works =====
  *[[Als die Zeit nach Hause kam. Erinnerungen]]; ISBN 3430159768

===== Literature =====
  *[[A. Lange and Söhne. Eine Uhrmacher-Dynastie aus Dresden]]; Author [[Reinhard Meis]]; ISBN 3766712861
  *[[Die Uhren von A. Lange and Söhne, Glashütte / Sachsen]] Bilderl. englisch / deutsch; von [[Martin Huber]]; ISBN 3766708880


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