Reico

The Reico Radio GmbH was from 1919 to 1933, an independent German manufacturers in particular tube radios . The company headquarters was in Berlin .

history

Company name

The company was founded in 1919 by Max Reinhardt and Kurt Getreuer as Masstechnische Anstalt Max Reinhardt & Co. GmbH , and in 1922 it was renamed Max Reinhardt & Co. GmbH . From 1931 the name was finally Reico Radio GmbH (derived from Max Rei nhardt & Co . ).

Products

After the company was founded and at the beginning of the 1920s, v. a. Precision instruments and variometers produced especially for foreign countries . There were also radios that were first manufactured in 1924 with the Reico logo .

Corporate structure

In the mid-1920s there were around 160 employees who manufactured almost all of the individual parts in-house. In the early 30s there were around 500 employees. At the time, Reico had a market share of 5.35% domestically and abroad, placing it in seventh place.

Max Reinhardt left the company in 1926 and Werner Brandeis became the new managing director . Since the company managers were Jews , they had to flee in 1933; Brandeis went to the USA , Kurt Getreuer initially to Czechoslovakia . On September 13, 1933, the company filed for bankruptcy . The National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV) became the new owner .

Getreuer founded a new electronics store in Steenwijkerland in the Netherlands , which his grandson is now running.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e radio manufacturer - information and history Reico, Berlin. Retrieved February 10, 2015 .
↑ ^a ^b Reico (Max Reinhardt & Co.) - Company history. Retrieved February 10, 2015 .
↑ Eva Susanne Breßler: Tab. A 16: Shares of individual companies in the radio industry in radio receiver sales 1932/33 to 1934/35 (without people's receivers) . In: From the experimental stage to the propaganda instrument (= media in past and present # 25), Böhlau Verlag , Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20241-5 , page 344

[Radiomuseum-1] radio manufacturer - information and history Reico, Berlin. Retrieved February 10, 2015 .

[antik-2] Reico (Max Reinhardt & Co.) - Company history. Retrieved February 10, 2015 .

[3] Eva Susanne Breßler: Tab. A 16: Shares of individual companies in the radio industry in radio receiver sales 1932/33 to 1934/35 (without people's receivers) . In: From the experimental stage to the propaganda instrument (= media in past and present # 25), Böhlau Verlag , Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-412-20241-5 , page 344