Founded Cologne 1893 as photo paper manufacturer; merged 1902 with Dr Opitz & Co, moving to Dresden in 1904; became Mimosa AG in 1913; company suffered under Third Reich with company's directors and employees forced to leave or sent to camps; after second world war company re-established by East German government in Dresden, becoming VEB Mimosa Dresden, developing a successful range of cameras in the late 1940s; continued photographic paper production until 1990.