Perpetuum Ebner
| Perpetuum Ebner | |
|---|---|
| legal form | KG |
| founding | 1911 |
| resolution | 1971 |
| Seat | St. Georgen in the Black Forest , Germany |
| Branch | Consumer electronics |
The company Perpetuum Ebner was in 1911 by Josef Steidinger after its withdrawal from the jointly controlled with his brother Christian company dual in St. Georgen in the Black Forest founded and was one of the oldest Phono companies worldwide.
The company initially produced spring drives as "Perpetuum Black Forest spring motors and automatic machines" and from 1920 also gramophones. When Josef died in 1925, Perpetuum was continued by his sons Hermann and Arthur and their daughter Hermine Steidinger. The company is renamed "PERPETUUM - Special Factory for Speech Machine Drives, Steidinger & Co. KG, St. Georgen / Black Forest".
In 1936 Hermine Steidinger married the Cannstatt developer and manufacturer Albert Ebner (1891–1956). After the marriage, the company was renamed "Perpetuum - Ebner, Factory for Precision Mechanics and Electrical Engineering, Steidinger & Co. KG (PE)".
PE expanded after World War II and was one of the largest phono manufacturers on the continent in the 1950s. At the end of the 1960s, PE had around 1200 employees and was an important employer in St. Georgen. To this day, the name PE, along with Dual and Saba, is synonymous with outstanding quality in consumer electronics. In 1971, the company, which had got into trouble, was taken over by Dual.
Since 2015, WE Audio Systems has been developing, producing and selling turntables under the brand name Perpetuum Ebner (PE) at the St. Georgen location .
literature
- Friedemann Maurer: Hermann Papst: Life and Work of an Inventor , BookRix, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7309-3785-3 , electronic resource; limited preview in Google Book search
Web links
- Martin Gramlich: Hi-Fi from the Black Forest. A sounding chapter in the history of technology . Broadcast manuscript, SWR2 Wissen, February 22, 2013
- German Phonomuseum , City of St. Georgen in the Black Forest
- www.weaudiosystems.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Radio Elektronik Schau , Volume 45, 1969, p. 698; Google snippet