Owin, radio equipment factory
| Owin, radio equipment factory | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | in March 1924 as Owin, Radioapparatefabrik GmbH |
| resolution | 1936 |
| Reason for dissolution | bankruptcy |
| Seat | Hanover |
| Branch | Radio receiver construction |
The Owin, radios GmbH in Hanover was in the 1920s and 1930s, a German company for the construction of various radio equipment mainly from its own production.
history
The Owin, Radioapparatefabrik was founded at the time of the Weimar Republic in March 1924 as a GmbH with headquarters in Arndtstrasse by the engineer Ernst Plathner (born February 9, 1899 in Hanover; † November 26, 1971 in Barsinghausen ), a brother-in-law of the hardware store - Wholesaler and financier Oscar Winter jun . (* December 15, 1894 in Hanover; declared dead on January 18, 1945 in Elze ), whose first and last name also formed the letters of the company name. Detector receivers and “ headphone distribution boards ” were initially manufactured. Once in December of the same year NORAG-slave transmitter Hannover of Nordic Broadcasting AG had gone into operation, the sale of Owin detector devices as the simplest and therefore lowest priced Radio soared. Soon, however, the company was also able to start building the first tube receivers .
In 1925 the company with its equipment warehouse, laboratory and assembly room was relocated to a three-story building in Talstrasse behind Hanover Central Station . It was now possible there - using tubes from the companies Telefunken and Valvo - to start producing their own radio sets, which were also sold abroad via a network of commercial agents .
In 1927 and 1928, Owin gradually converted their radios from battery operation to power supply units . From the beginning of the 1930s these were offered with a receiver , power supply unit and loudspeaker in a polished housing and could be sold in ever larger quantities. When after the seizure of power of the NSDAP , the Owin radio equipment factory - like all 28 radio manufacturers in the so-called "Third Reich" - by the Reich Radio Chamber was force involved to build the People's recipient of the type VE 301 , had Owin 1934 eventually other premises related to the production and management in Hagenstrasse and Tellkampfstrasse . Hundreds of women assembled individual parts there with soldering irons , and kits for building radio sets and learning radio technology were published, for example the “Kosmos” experiment kit for “awakened boys”.
1934 marks the year with the largest production of Owin products and the production of 100 people's receivers every day.
But the rapid and excessive growth with at the same time thin equity of the Owin Radioapparatefabrik also repeatedly led to errors in production and even to take- back actions , so that the company finally went bankrupt in 1936 .
After World War II, the company's founder operational Ernst Plathner a transformer factory and announced in 1953 a patent with the number DE1660860 for "Iron Closed self-induction " to, the following year 1954 under the number DE1680029 U for a " layer choke for fluorescent lamps (fluorescent lamps layer throttle ...) ".
See also
Literature (selection)
- Robert Wunder: The short waves: transmission and reception circuits (= library of radio amateurs , vol. 29), 98 pages with illustrations, Berlin: Julius Springer: 1926, passim ; Preview over google books
- Heinz Lange, Heinz Karl Nowisch: Receiver circuits of the radio industry , Vol. 5: Mende, Messgerätebau, Metz, MEW, Niemann, Nora, Nord-Mende, Opitz-Spezial, Owin , 4th edition, Leipzig: Fachbuchverlag, 1954
- Rudolf Herzog: The Hanover broadcasting company Owin , in Waldemar R. Röhrbein (Ed.): 60 years of broadcasting in Hanover. 1924–1984 (164 pages with numerous illustrations), contributions to the exhibition in the Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer , Hanover: Historisches Museum am Hohen Ufer, 1984, pp. 127–133
Web links
- Mihály Horn (uploader): Owin Radio Hannover VE301.mp4 , video clip on Youtube .com with a presentation of an Owin device in the style of a people's receiver
- Owin, Hannover on the radiomuseum.org website
- NN : 78 years ago Hanover was still the hometown of OWIN RADIO , with images that can be enlarged and comments on their own biography on the private website detraphon.de
- Bernd Schmitz (responsible): Radios from Hanover in the 1920s on the illustrated page radiomuseum-bissendorf.de
- Ralf Kläs (responsible): Owin (Oskar Winter) / company history , with enlargeable photographs of the Owin E1001 device
- Ingo Pötschke, Christoph Heiner (Responsible): Company Owin, (Oskar Winter) Hanover in the forum of the website of the Society of Friends of the History of Radio Technology (GFGF)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Owin, Radioapparatefabrik GmbH. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 492; online through google books
- ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein: WINTER, Oscar. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 391.
- ↑ Wolfgang Leonhardt : Hanoverian stories. Reports from different districts , Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8391-5437-3 , p. 39ff .; online through google books
- ↑ Closed- iron self-induction on freepatentsonline.com
- ↑ Patents / publication number DE1680029 U