Kombinat Zentronik
The VEB Kombinat Zentronik , called centronics for short , was an industrial combine in the area of the Ministry of Electrical Engineering and Electronics of the GDR .
The combine was formed on April 1, 1969 from operations of the VVB data processing and office machines. The parent company was the VEB Büromaschinenwerk Sömmerda , the headquarters of the combine management was Erfurt . On December 31, 1977 the combine was dissolved, the combine operations were connected to the VEB Kombinat Robotron , which was also founded in 1969 .
General director of the combine was Wolfgang Lungershausen .
Combine companies and their profile
(Previous company names, brands and product lines are shown in italics )
- VEB Büromaschinenwerk Sömmerda, Rheinmetall
- "Soemtron": "Supermetall" : punch card technology, printing technology, writing technology, invoicing machines
- "President": dot matrix printer
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VEB booking machine works Karl-Marx-Stadt , Astra / Wanderer-Continental
- "Ascota": workstation computers, booking machines , adding machines, typing technology
- VEB Rechenelektronik Meiningen Zella-Mehlis , Mercedes
- "Cellatron": small computing systems, mechanical and electronic calculating machines, typing technology, accounting machines, adding machines
- VEB Optima Typewriter Works Erfurt , Olympia
Writing technique
- VEB Typewriter Factory Dresden, Seidel & Naumann
- "Erika": small typewriters, "Ideal": office typewriters
- VEB REISS measuring and drawing equipment, Bad Liebenwerda
- Drawing instruments, office furniture and laboratory equipment, slide rules
- VEB Secura works Berlin
- Cash registers, copier technology