German Office for Weights and Measures
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Office for Standardization, Metrology and Goods Testing |
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| State level | GDR |
| founding | 1946 |
| Headquarters | Berlin-Koepenick |
The German Office for Weights and Measures ( DAMG ) was an institution founded in the Soviet occupation zone in 1946 and took over the tasks of the former Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt there and in the area of the later GDR . The calibration directorates and calibration offices of the districts in the GDR were subordinate to the DAMG .
In the course of time, the DAMG received more extensive tasks than its West German counterpart, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt , which still exists today - in particular standardization and quality assurance . This led to the abbreviation being printed on press marks on plastic objects in order to attest to their compliance with standards or quality. Today this can in turn be used to date such objects. The name DAMG was only in use from 1946 to 1961.
The DAMG was later renamed the German Office for Metrology (DAM, 1961 to 1964), then the German Office for Metrology and Goods Testing (DAMW, 1964 to 1973) and finally the Office for Standardization , Metrology and Goods Testing (ASMW, 1973 to 1990) . The office ceased its work in 1990 and around 100 employees were transferred to the German Institute for Standardization .
Norms
The technical standards, quality regulations and delivery conditions (TGL) issued by the office were the equivalent of the West German DIN standards in the GDR . The GDR standards and the department standards applied to the entire economy ; the factory standards applied to the respective companies .
In contrast to DIN, the TGL standards were a regulation and were not just a recommendation. They were published in special editions of the law gazette, TGL paperbacks and in magazines.
literature
- Günter Fuhrmann, H. Jablonski, H.-H. Lehnecke, J. Thiele and L.-P. Wagenführ: Material and goods testing in the GDR: Demands and Reality (Ed .: DIN German Institute for Standardization eV), Beuth-Verlag, Berlin, Vienna, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-410-17748-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Broszat, Hermann Weber, Gerhard Braas: SBZ manual: State administrations, parties, social organizations and their executives in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany, pages 257/258
- ↑ Chronicle. Deutsches Institut für Normung eV, 210, accessed on July 20, 2010 .
- ↑ BI-Lexikon A – Z, In one volume , VEB Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig, 3rd edition 1982, page 880 u. 921