Early Life
Noble had been born in Detroit, Michigan. His father, born in Germany, came to the US as a Seventh Day Adventist missionary in 1922. Finding contradictions in church teachings, he eventually left the church. His mother, a photographer, worked in a photo-finishing company in Detroit and then his father became the owner of this company. The Nobles eventually built the company to become one of the top ten photo-finishing companies in the US. His father was an acquaintance of a German camera manufacturer who wanted to emigrate to the USA and offered to trade his camera factory in Dresden for the Nobles’ company. The Nobles turned the German company, the Praktica, into a major international brand, employing 600 workers at the business’ peak.
The Nobles stayed in Germany during World War II and survived the controversial firebombing of Dresden in February of 1945.
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