Zander was by then an engineer at the Berlin machine factory , which had existed since 1844, at Chausseestraße 35, Oranienburger Vorstadt (Berlin-Mitte)Christine Walther: Siegertypen: zur fotografischen Vermittlung eines gesellschaftlichen Selbstbildes um 1900. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2007. , . It later became the Flohr-OTIS company, specialising in passenger and freight lifts.Maschinenfabrik Flohr. At luise-berlin.de, retrieved 3 September 2021. On 26 May 1895, a fire broke out there, which Zander photographed. Two of his photographs were subsequently published by the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung.Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, fascicule 21 (1895), .
