Giesecke & Devrient (G&D) is a technology company with seat in Munich, which developed on the basis of the note and identity card pressure also to a specialist for Smart Cards and safety solutions. The tradition company was created on 1 June 1852 of Hermann Giesecke (1831-1900) and Alphons Devrient (1821-1878) in Leipzig as "typographic institute for art Giesecke & Devrient" and maintains today world-wide over 50 subsidiaries and Joint venture. G&D busy in the financial year 2004 7,337 coworkers, of it 3,852 abroad. In the same year the enterprise gained a gross income of 1,2 billion euro. G&D is volume-moderately the largest printer of Eurobank notes under the 15 Druckerein taken part.

G&D was first specialized in banknote printing, as well as the supply of the appropriate Sicherheitspapiere and the machines to the treatment of notes. Gradually the enterprise developed Smart Cards, electronic exchange, person identification and Internet security (Public key Infrastructure) however into other safety technologies inside, in particular into the ranges.

Important stations in enterprise history

The enterprise was 1924 considerably involved in the production of the pension Marks. After 1945 the company headquarters was shifted to Munich. In Leipzig existing buildings and plants were put under state control and continued to operate as VEB German security printering. 1958 committed itself G&D to the supply of half of the notes for the German Federal Bank. The other half supplied then state-own, today denationalized federal printering. 1968 were G&D involved in the development of the Eurocheques and the Eurocheque map. In the same year a society of the group of firms announced the first patent regarding smart cards. 1981 was manufactured the first smart cards on behalf the German federation post office by G&D. Later the company invented three years the so-called SIM Plug in, which should become generally accepted in the coming years to the world-wide standard for Sim maps. 1991 supplied the first commercial SIM map for a Finnish network carrier to G&D with.

Beside a number of further innovations, particularly in the surrounding field of banknote printing, G&D 1990 won the first large order that the Federal reserve bank of the United States of America. In the next years however above all the expert's assessment in the smart card surrounding field was developed. Thus developed for instance the first legal patient insuring map (1993), the first electronic stock exchange (1995) or those world-wide first SIM based mobile Banking solution (1998). 1996 had been established G&D as a prominent supplier of masks, maps and terminals for the money map introduced to Germany. Two years later the new enterprise segment safety systems was created, which put an emphasis on information and network security.

Starting from 1999 G&D for the European central bank printed the new European currency ("euro ") on the basis of most modern safety standards. G&D is thereby volume-moderately the largest printer of Eurobank notes under 15 printering taken part.

2002 were responsible to G&D for development, Design and pressure of the new note series for Afghanistan. In the following years the enterprise develops above all also visa Personalisierungssysteme, among other things for Kazakhstan, Serbia and Italy. Also the production of health maps followed, approximately for Taiwan.

In the year 2004 G&D was involved in the Federal Republic in the production of the new document of identification documents with storage of biometric data on a chip. Besides the enterprise is involved into the project electronic Patientenkarte.

Related links

• Homepage von Giesecke & Devrient
• Essay to the firm anniversary from the year 1902
• Information about sample notes of collecting tanks for collecting tanks

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