The history of Plath

For more than 50 years now, the name PLATH has been a byword for customer-orientated innovation and the very highest quality standards. This book shows how the company began as a department of C. Plath, a Hamburg maker of nautical equipment steeped in tradition, and how Dr. Maximilian Wächtler, the leading light of German radio direction finding, made it into an independent company in 1954. Using his pioneering inventions and wide network of contacts, Wächtler would remain the driving force behind technological development at PLATH well into the 1980s. The successful relationship between the staff of PLATH and “their” company is also described, as are the close ties to many loyal customers and the new direction which PLATH took in the 1990s, growing from a manufacturer of single devices into a full systems provider.