Rectron
The Rectron GmbH was a Berlin-based company.
The Rectron GmbH was possibly a straw man business of Philips in Germany, conflicts with Telefunken to avoid. It was founded at the end of 1925 by:
- Rectron in Eindhoven , in the Philips building
- of the Glashütte Weißwasser GmbH in Upper Lusatia
- Hans Joachim Spanner and Friedrich Meyer, initially at Spanner's address at Kottbusserdamm 70–71 in Berlin. (On July 31, 1926, a factory floor was rented in the house, together with Carl v. Wedel as a third party in a planned GmbH; subsequent tenant on January 15, 1927 under the name "Elektro Spezial GmbH", with Friedrich Mayer as managing director). Spanner had previously worked in Gerhard Nickel's (1897–1975) tube laboratory .
Edmund Germer was initially chief physicist and developed noble gas hot cathode rectifiers. The management was initially entrusted to a lawyer and was taken over by Ing.Felix Westerhoven from 1927 to 1945. Until 1938 they had no production of their own, but sold rectifiers, battery chargers, light barriers, carbon microphones and other Philips devices. The company moved several times: to Potsdamer Strasse 52 (1928), Schützenstrasse 29–30 (1930), Steglitzer Strasse 27 (1932), Ludendorfstrasse 27 (1936) and finally in 1938 to Boxhagerner Strasse 76-78, where it had its own Could start production.
After the Second World War it was in the Soviet sector and was brought under the control of the Soviet Military Administration ( SMAD ). New management has been appointed. On September 8, 1951, the company was expropriated and closed.
Philips founded a new Rectron GmbH in Hamburg in 1945, which was renamed Lupus Electrotechnik-Beteiligungs GmbH in 1975 and closed on March 27, 1985.
supporting documents
- ^ Radio manufacturer - information and history of Rectron GmbH; Berlin S59. on radiomuseum.org
- ↑ Hans-Dieter Marschner: The development of the glass industry in white water. ( PDF file ).
- ^ Gerhard Nickel / curriculum vitae. on tubecollection.de