page_title: Schott AG
section_title: Founding
hierarchical_section_title: Schott AG / History / Founding
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Friedrich Otto Schott (1851-1935), Deutscher Chemiker und Glastechniker
context_page_description: Schott AG is a company specializing in the manufacture of glass and glass-ceramics. It is headquartered in Mainz, Germany.
context_section_description: In 1884, Otto Schott, Ernst Abbe, Carl Zeiss and his son Roderich Zeiss founded the Glastechnische Laboratorium Schott & Genossen (Glass Technical Laboratory Schott & Associates) in Jena, which initially produced optical glasses for microscopes and telescopes. Jena glass was one of its early manufactured glass products. In 1891, the Carl Zeiss Foundation founded two years earlier by Ernst Abbe became a partner in the glass laboratory. The invention of borosilicate glass, resistant to chemicals, heat and temperature change, paved the way for new technical glasses for thermometers, laboratory equipment and gas lamps.
  The company experienced economic success. The workforce had grown to 1,233 by 1919. Sales had doubled to 28 million marks by 1920. Otto Schott transferred his shares to the Carl Zeiss Foundation in 1919, fully rendering the glass laboratory a foundation company and renaming it Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen (Jena Glassworks Schott & Assoc.). Erich Schott, the founder’s son, took over management of the glass factory in 1927.
caption: Company founder and namesake Otto Schott
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