And I've just remembered there were others in a similar position. Early on in my career I was taught by Ernst Matthei, who'd been a seriously heavy microscopist in preWar Germany; he entertained us with tales from his work there. I forget the details of which name (Leica/Leitz) came first but, postWar, the technology and staff of the original optical works was split between East and West Germany. Those in West Germany organised themselves into a fair copy of a workers' cooperative (which earned the suspicion of the Americans) while the ones in East Germany had no choice about being one, but had various 'capitalist' attirbutes that earned them suspicion from the Russians.

Cheers, Rowan