Funkwerk Köpenick
| VEB Funkwerk Köpenick Funkwerk Köpenick GmbH DeTeWe Funkwerk Köpenick GmbH (1992-2004) |
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| founding | December 15, 1949 |
| resolution | around 2005 |
| Reason for dissolution | in DeTeWe risen |
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| Branch | Electronics , broadcast technology |
| Website | www.detewe.de |
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The VEB Funkwerk Köpenick was a publicly owned enterprise (VEB) based in East Berlin and one of the most important institutions for communications electronics in the GDR . The main plant in Berlin-Köpenick , Wendenschloßstraße 142–170, employed over 3000 people. It had emerged from a company founded in 1934. After 1990 it was transferred to a limited liability company . The management modernized the production range. The successor organization has been called DeTeWe Funkwerk Köpenick GmbH since 1992 . From 2004, production in Köpenick was discontinued because it only brought in losses. The last less than 100 employees lost their jobs. Since then , the DeTeWe subsidiary Funkwerk Köpenick GmbH has been developing and selling digital trunked radio technology and exporting analog technical equipment at the new Ratingen location .
Company history
In 1934 the company for electroacoustic and mechanical apparatus mbH ( GEMA ) was founded, which primarily developed and produced devices for the new radar technology for the Reichswehr and Wehrmacht (from 1935) . In addition, GEMA was active in the field of sonar systems and ship controls. In September 1937 the company moved its headquarters to Wendenschloßstraße 154.
After the Second World War , the GEMA plant in Köpenick came under the control of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD). The company's know-how had been classified as vital to the war effort and was now being used by the new rulers. The production facilities were retained and the manufacture of ship control systems and electrical measuring devices was resumed. The company was now operating as the Scientific and Technical Office of the Ministry of Shipping Industry of the USSR (MSP).
On December 15, 1949, the MSP was handed over to the GDR and converted into a state-owned company (VEB). The company was given the name VEB Funkwerk Köpenick , and the product range was switched to the production of communications electronics in the long term . The manufacture of the original core products was transferred to VEB Meßelektronik Berlin in 1963 . The new focus of the company in Köpenick was the development of broadcast transmission systems . For example, the radio technology for the Berlin television tower came from this factory.
In July 1970, the company's first mainframe computer was put into operation, a Robotron 300 system. This was replaced by an EC-1035 in December 1982 .
On September 22, 1978, astronaut Sigmund Jähn and politburo member Harry Tisch visited the Funkwerk on the occasion of the award of the honorary name Sigmund Jähn to a brigade in the field of corporate radio .
On July 1, 1986, the VEB Funkwerk Köpenick parent company of was Kombinat VEB Kombinat Nachrichtenelektronik whose management in Leipzig was located. From that time until October 1990 the company was also assigned to the Ministry of Electrical Engineering and Electronics .
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After the reunification , the VEB was converted into the legal form of a GmbH and traded as Funkwerk Köpenick GmbH . In 1992 DeTeWe acquired the company and renamed it DeTeWe Funkwerk Köpenick GmbH . The company was finally closed completely and some factories were removed. In 2010, the press said: "Where once 4000 people worked there is now a discounter". The Rohde & Schwarz group took over a part of it and started operating as FTK Funktechnik Köpenick GmbH in September 1992 . The large administration building along Wendenschloßstraße (main entrance number 160) has been empty for several years (as of 2013).
Manufacturing areas
- Berlin, Wendenschloßstraße: KN-1E
- Zossen / OT Dabendorf, Ernst Thälmann Strasse: EKV 12/13
- Calbe, An der Saale 5-6: SEG 15-D
Major broadcasters worldwide
- 1952 Nauen, 100 KW radio
- 1957 Budapest, TV broadcaster
- 1965 Jakarta
- 1970 Berlin TV tower , VHF radio and TV
- 1988 Antarctica, KFC1300, Georg Forster Station
Future use
The BVV of the district decided on a development plan in 2016 , according to which the entire area is to be redesigned into a residential area with around 750 to 800 residential units and commercial uses. However, the planning process was subsequently taken over by the Berlin Senate .
Architects, landscape planners and urban planners took part in an ideas competition for the development of the site in 2017. Among other things, a project study was published in October. But in 2018 there was neither a building permit nor a start of construction.
VEB Funkwerk Köpenick products (selection)
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- Microphones, headphones, oscilloscopes
- Remote controls for television receivers
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Radios for police, fire brigade, National People's Army and also for radio amateurs , including
- Car radio devices: VHF device system U600 for mobile and stationary use, later U700
- Handheld radios: UFT 422, UFT431, UFT721, UFT727
- Message radio : shortwave transmitter KN1-E
- Antennas
Between 1995 and 2003 the company registered a total of 11 patents in the field of radio technology.
People who are connected to the history of the Funkwerk
- Siegfried Berger , strike leader in the VEB Funkwerk Köpenick during the workers' uprising of June 17, 1953
- Peter Vielhauer , from 1956 developer of transmitting antennas and filters, later head of the mathematics office and from 1965 head of operational organization and computer technology
- Felix Meier plant director from 1967 to 1978, later Minister for Electrical Engineering and Electronics of the GDR .
literature
- Gerd Klawitter: 100 years of radio technology in Germany 2: Radio stations and measuring stations around Berlin. 2002, ISBN 3-89685-511-5 , page 120
Web links
- VEB holdings at the Landesarchiv Berlin
- Employee magazine 'Funkjournal' on the 40th anniversary of the GDR ; Online parts are not complete.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Detewe closes production at www.tagesspiegel.de, March 3, 2004, accessed on August 29, 2016.
- ↑ DeTeWe press release of March 2, 2004, accessed on March 11, 2012 ( Memento of April 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ GEMA Berlin short story at www.radiomuseum.org; accessed on March 8, 2015
- ↑ a b Kai Posmik: How the GDR got their first cell phone. With the help of the Saxon engineer Gottfried Schuppang, VEB Funkwerk Köpenick once managed to outperform western global corporations. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Sächsische Zeitung , April 14, 2010.
- ^ Rohde & Schwarz subsidiary FTK five years old (PDF) , News from Rohde & Schwarz , Issue 157, 1998
- ↑ according to the framework agreement on the implementation of industrial repairs to armament and equipment , Berlin 1982.
- ↑ Press release on the development plan in Köpenick: Senate administration takes over development plan procedure 9-50 "Funkwerk Köpenick" in Berlin-Köpenick, OT Wendenschloß , accessed on January 7, 2017 / supplemented on April 10, 2020.
- ↑ Results from a planning competition on competititononline.de, accessed on April 10, 2020.
- ↑ Housing construction in Berlin - Treptow-Köpenick builds on www.neues-deutschland.de; accessed on April 10, 2020.
- ↑ Operational beneficiary of VEB FWK in detail
- ↑ Installation instructions for VHF 600; offered on e-bay , accessed on September 9, 2016.
- ↑ Brief information on the U700 system from the transport police with installation and operating instructions , accessed on September 9, 2016.
- ↑ Sale of a KN1-E at e-bay for 351 euros , accessed on September 9, 2016.
- ↑ Product examples on radiomuseum.org , accessed on December 10, 2012
- ↑ Concrete overview of the patents from Funkwerk Köpenick GmbH ; accessed on August 29, 2016.
