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);
- the company "Telefunken Lighting technologies S,L" (2009)
The company Telefunken USA was incorporated in early 2001 to provide restoration services and build reproductions of vintage Telefunken microphones.
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