Telefunken - Locations and Manufacturing Plants

Locations and Manufacturing Plants

Into the 1930s years, production was made after a distributor in the workshops of the two parent companies. The company headquarters was located in Berlin Kreuzberg, Hallesches Ufer 30 (1918–37).

The first commercially made electronic television sets with cathode ray tubes were manufactured by Telefunken in Berlin in 1932,

Starting from 1938, manufacturing and developing plants were concentrated at the new headquarters (until 1945) in Berlin Zehlendorf, Goerzallee.

During the Second World War, there were further manufacturing plants in the Berlin area, in Thuringia, Saxonia, Moravia, Silesia, on Rügen. In addition, in Baltic countries at Tallinn and Riga, and in occupied areas of Poland at Krakau and Lodz, floats and works were established. The tube mill Lodz was shifted in 1944 with the staff from Ulm.

After the Second World War, new firm locations for development and production were established. The company headquarters was located first in Berlin-Schöneberg (1945–48), then in Berlin-Kreuzberg (1948–52), Berlin-Moabit (1952–60) and Berlin Charlottenburg (1960–67).

Production plants were located in:

• Backnang: Long-distance communications and cable technology (now Tesat-Spacecom)
• Berlin-Moabit, Sickingenstr. 20-26: Broadcast and television transmitters, mobile communications (now Transradio SenderSysteme Berlin AG)
• Berlin-Moabit, Sickingenstr. 71: Tubes (since 2005: JobCenter Berlin Mitte, Employment agency)
• Berlin-Wedding (current: Gesundbrunnen), Schwedenstr.: Broadcast sets, Phono and tape decks, Videocassette recorder, Videodisc player
• Celle: Color television sets (1966–1997, buildings 2001/2002 completely demolished
• Eiweiler: High-frequency engineering
• Hanover, Göttinger Chaussee 76: Broadcast and television sets, Acoustic engineering (til 1973)
• Heilbronn: Semiconductor, circuits, solar cells, infrared modules (now Telefunken Semiconductors GmbH & Co. KG)
• Konstanz: Computer technology, letter sorting systems, character recognition technology, air traffic control systems, Studio tape decks, cash dispensing machines
• Offenburg: Long-distance communications technology
• Osterode am Harz: Videocassette recorder
• Ulm, Danube valley: Television picture tubes
• Ulm, Elisabethenstrasse: Radar, Radiolocation, detection equipment, speech and radio data transmission systems, Research Centre (now Telefunken Racoms)
• Ulm, Söflinger Strasse: Tubes
• Wolfenbüttel: Electroacoustics (from 1973 on)