WAS THERE REALLY A DR ROHDE AND A DR SCHWARZ?

Indeed there were!    Rohde and Schwarz, that paragon of exquisite German engineering and I am fortunate enough to own one of their EK-07 receivers and a CAQ small clock frequency standard.

The company was founded by  Lothar Rohde and Hermann Schwarz after their university days as post docs in  Jena.   In August 1933, the Physikalisch-Technisches Entwicklungslabor Dr. Rohde & Dr. Schwarz (known as PTE) started in business.  The fledgling business grew such that in 1937, the small laboratory moved into a former bakery on Tassiloplatz, in Munich.   From just two young  PhD engineers, the copmpany now employed 35 workers and offered 24 different devices in its catalogue. In 1938, it manufactured the first portable quartz clock with a weight of 36 kg.

After business activities were normalised in late 1945, the  US Army placed a major order to equip the USAF base at Erding and this investment  ensured the company's continued existence and brought about a company renaming to  Rohde & Schwarz (R&S).

Here we see this dynamic duo during the 1930's - which is which, well Dr. Rohde is on the RHS and Dr. Schwarz is on the LHS:-

Here they are looking suave some time during the mid 1960's and once again - which is which, well Dr. Rohde is on the RHS and Dr. Schwarz is on the LHS:-

And here they are looking dapper and sprightly still some 50 years later so, once with feeling - which is which, well, you guessed right,  Dr. Rohde is on the RHS and Dr. Schwarz is on the LHS:-