Joseph Junker

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Original Junker Morse code, Bad Honnef, civil version
Replica of a Junker Morse code from the GDR

Joseph Junker (* 19th century ; † 1946 ) was a sea captain in the Imperial Navy and developed the Junker Morse code named after him .

Life

After his career as a decorated radio officer in the Imperial Navy, Joseph Junker founded the radio engineering workshops in Berlin in 1926 . This company existed until 2014 as Joseph Junker GmbH. Here he put u. a. Banana plugs , later tube transmitters and receivers for the military sector as well as test equipment for submarines. The Junker Morsetaste MT was developed in the late 1920s and patented on November 11, 1931. The Junker keys, with which the stroke height and spring pressure can be adjusted by adjusting screws and which are still used in this form today, especially by radio amateurs worldwide, are considered precision keys . Modified in keeping with the times, Junker produced these keys until 2014.

Joseph Junker GmbH

After the company was founded in Berlin in 1926, a branch was founded in Honnef in 1934 . After the end of the Second World War , the entire production plant was relocated from Berlin to the new location in Honnef. In the 1970s, the company began repairing telephones for what was then the Deutsche Bundespost . It repaired up to 350,000 telephones annually.

The company's range of services has been expanded since the beginning of the 1990s: Junker manufactured assembly systems for electrical engineering as well as frames and racks for the telecommunications industry. The company supplied u. a. the German Telekom AG , which Siemens AG and Krone GmbH with equipment for telephone plant, public switching systems and public communications networks.

According to the excerpt from the register portal, the company has expired: "HRB 6638: Joseph Junker GmbH, Bad Honnef, August-Lepper-Straße 3, 53604 Bad Honnef. The liquidation has ended. The company has been deleted."

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Company research: The Joseph Junker company was liquidated in 2014. In: Northdata.de. Retrieved December 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Joachim Beckh: Blitz & Anker . tape 1 . BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-2996-8 , pp. 349 (560 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Reich patent No. 613176 for the Junker Morse code from 11.11.1931. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on November 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Junker, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 1946