Telefunken
Telefunken was a German radio and television apparatus company, founded in Berlin in 1903, as a joint venture of Siemens & Halske and the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) (General Electricity Company).
Brief overview
The name "Telefunken" appears in:
the product brand name "Telefunken";
Gesellschaft für drahtlose Telegraphie m.b.H., System Telefunken, founded 1903 in Berlin as a subsidiary of AEG and Siemens & Halske;
Telefunken, Gesellschaft für drahtlose Telegraphie m.b.H. (from 1923 to 1955 - since 1941 subsidiary of the AEG only);
Telefunken GmbH in 1955;
Telefunken Aktiengesellschaft (AG) in 1963;
Merger of AEG and Telefunken to form Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft AEG-Telefunken (from 1967 to 1979);
AEG-TELEFUNKEN AG (from 1979 to 1985);
TELEFUNKEN Fernseh und Rundfunk GmbH, Hanover (1972, subsidiary of AEG-TELEFUNKEN);
the company Telefunken USA in 2001, now "Telefunken Elektroakustik" (2009);
the company "Telefunken Semiconductors GmbH & Co. KG" in Heilbronn Germany (since 2009);