George Neumann (* 13 October 1898 in Chorin; "† 1976 in Berlin) were an entrepreneur and developer of electroacoustic devices, in particular from microphones, which attained world-wide reputation.

Its vocational training attained George Neumann in Berlin with mixes & Genest as well as imAEG cable works Oberspree under the direction of Eugen Reisz.Als Eugen Reisz thereafter its own company created, was George Neumann as a coworker uses there the first German broadcasting station in Berlin the well-known Reisz microphone imMamorblock, in whose development George Neumann was considerably involved. In the year 1928 Neumann created the limited partnership George Neumann & Co. together with Erich Rickmann in Berlin. The firm goal was to manufacture condenser microphones with which the acoustic waves the diaphragm of a condenser can be brought to swinging and be converted in such a way because of its changes of capacity into an electrical signal. That was successfully brought to CMV 3 on the market. Furthermore for the record industry were designed.

To the olympic plays 1936 in Berlin exists the first execution form from George Neumann-developed and this very day manufactured condenser microphone with the well-known M 7Elektrode in low frequency vacuum tube circuit its first "live-test". The "Neumann bottle" could be equipped at that time with replaceable caps of different directional characteristics.

In the course of the Second World War the company is shifted to Gefell/Thuringia. Since 1990 the east branch of the enterprise calls itself Microtech Gefell. In the western part of Berlin George Neumann GmbH in the district cross mountain produces condenser microphones after the Second World War further, in addition came record cutters and large clay/tone direction plants (mixers). These ranges were given up in the 90's, when the enterprise was taken over of Sennheiser. Since then the development and the customer service sit in the citizen of Berlin district Reinickendorf, which became production Sennheiser shifted after Wedemark with Hanover. The Neumann condenser microphones are produced further under the name "Neumann".

Related links

• George Neumann GmbH, Berlin
• Personal record of George Neumann and the history of its enterprise in Gefell - pdf

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