Josef Berliner

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City board at Villa Simon for the family of the entrepreneur and chairman of the synagogue community , including brother Emil Berliner and daughter Klara, who was later expropriated and deported and perished in the Theresienstadt ghetto

Joseph Berliner (born August 22, 1858 in Hanover ; † May 23, 1938 there ) was a German manufacturer .

Life

Joseph Berliner was a son of the businessman Samuel Berliner and brother of Emil and Jacob . After his bank apprenticeship and military service, he spent two years in the USA and studied low-voltage technology .

Seal of the Telephon-Fabrik-Actiengesellschaft Hannover, formerly J. Berliner
Telephon-Fabrik Actiengesellschaft, formerly J. Berliner in Kniestraße, today Edwin-Oppler-Weg 5 in the northern part of Hanover;
Collotype / lithograph , around 1919
Signature of Joseph Berliner for Deutsche Grammophon and the architect Werner for the record factory at (then) Podbielskistraße 76;
on the "situation plan [...]" in December 1907
Share in Hackethal-Draht- und Kabelwerke AG in Hanover signed by Josef Berliner and Richard Platz ;
Print by JC König & Ebhardt , 1928
Family grave after Wilhelm Mackensen in the Jewish cemetery An der Strangriede

In 1881, together with his brother Emil, he founded the J. Berliner Telefonfabrik on Kniestraße in Hanover. He successfully exhibited his new transmission technology at the exhibitions in Munich in 1882, in Vienna in 1883 and in Frankfurt / Main in 1891. The Körner microphone ("Universal Transmitter"), a carbon microphone , was first delivered to the Deutsche Reichspost at the end of 1880 . The company had great success with this, as the post office used carbon microphones until the 1970s. Berliner's much sought-after “automatic lever line selector” also contributed to the company's upswing. Joseph Berliner founded branches in Vienna , Berlin , Budapest , London and Paris . In 1898 he converted his company into a stock corporation and in the same year founded the Deutsche Grammophon Society for the production of records with brother Emil . The trademark was His Master's Voice as a seated before the gramophone dog. In 1900 he and his brother Jacob founded the Hackethal-Draht-Gesellschaft for the inventions of Louis Hackethal . In 1906 he laid down the management of the telephone factory.

From 1895 he lived in the Villa Simon on Königsworther Platz . He was chairman of the supervisory board of the mechanical weaving mill in Linden near Hanover. In 1914 he was appointed commercial councilor and in 1921 commercial judge. In 1921 he also became first chairman of the synagogue community and initiated the construction of the Bothfeld Jewish cemetery . He himself is buried in the Jewish cemetery at An der Strangriede . The architect and court building officer Wilhelm Mackensen (1869–1955) designed his tomb .

His daughter Klara was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in early March 1943 , where she was murdered.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Joseph Berliner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dirk Böttcher: Hannoversches biographical lexicon ; P. 54
personal data
SURNAME Berliner, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berliner, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1938
Place of death Hanover