The company Telefunken became to 27. May 1903 as a society for wireless telegraphy of AEG and Siemens based. Telefunken was the telegraphy address of the society. Siemens left the joint venture 1941. 1967 fused those Telefunken AG with the AEG to AEG Telefunken. The name additive Telefunken disappeared however 1985 again, after the Telefunken portion was sold in the context of bankruptcy proceedings to the French Thomson company.

Enterprise history

Around the turn of the century two groups of researchers worked on the development from techniques to the wireless transmission of news in Germany. The one group around Adolf Slaby and George count von Arco developed the other one on behalf the German navy for the AEG, under Karl Ferdinand brown on behalf the German army for Siemens.

When the two companies began to argue about the patents emperor Wilhelm smoothed II. On its urge both companies created to 27. May 1903 the company Gesellschaft for wireless telegraphy Ltd., which received the contentious patents and techniques. This was then renamed on 17 April 1923 the Firmierung in Telefunken, Gesellschaft for wireless telegraphy. In the Second World War Telefunken was a prominent supplier of radar device. Telefunken was for many decades with the subsidiary company Teldec also one of the largest German record companies.

With the models TR 4 and TR 440 were developed at Telefunken computers, which were in the years 1962 to approximately 1985 at many German university computing centres in use. The computer development was separated with the dissolution of AEG Telefunken to the computers society Konstanz (CGK).

Literature

• M. Friedewald: Telefunken and the German ship radio 1903-1914. In: Magazine for enterprise history 46. No. 1, 2001, P. 27-57
• M. Fox: George von Arco (1869-1940) - engineer, Pazifist, technical director von Telefunken. A Erfinderbiographie. Publishing house for history of the natural sciences and the technology, Berlin and Munich Diepholz 2003
• L. And Scholl: Marconi versus Telefunken: Drathlose telegraphy and their meaning for shipping. In: G. Bayerl, W. weber (Hrsg.): Social history of the technology. Ulrich Troitz to 60. Birthday. Waxmann, 1997 (Cottbuser studies to the history of technology, work and environment, 7)
• Telefunken transmitter technology GmbH: 90 years Telefunken. Berlin 1993
• E. Thiele (Hrsg.): Telefunken after 100 years: The inheritance of a German world brand. Nicolai, Berlin 2003
• Pure hard small Arendt: The radio station Nauen with Berlin. In: Ulrich van the Heyden, Joachim Zeller (Hg.) ""Â… Power and portion of the world domination. "Berlin and the German colonialism. Unrast publishing house. 2005, ISBN 3-89771-024-2

Related links

• Telefunken
• 1903: William II. creates the company Telefunken
• The side concerns itself with the history of the tape and with it naturally Telefunken.
• Synergies The didactic drama Telefunken. c't 8/2004, P. 56 (history of the enterprise)

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