Schneider (company)
| SCHNEIDER Technologies AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| resolution | 2005 |
| Seat | Türkheim , Germany |
| Branch | Consumer electronics |
The Schneider Technologies AG (formerly Schneider broadcast Werke AG and Schneider Electronics AG ) was a manufacturer of consumer electronics and computers in Untertürkheim .
history
The history of Schneider-Rundfunkwerke AG goes back to the year 1859. Felix Schneider began in Türkheim in the Unterallgäu district with the manufacture of wood washing machines, lockers for the armed forces and cases for music chests. The company name ( company ) later changed to Schneider Electronics AG, then Schneider Technologies AG.
Consumer electronics
The company, headed by Leo Schneider, switched to the production of entertainment electronics in 1965 when the first music cabinets were produced. In 1972 the Schneider-Werke took over the radio manufacturer Emud and in 1974 the office machine manufacturer Walther .
Besides music compact systems (Schneider Power Pack) and others for the mail order company Neckermann and televisions own with chassis there was in-house developments such as a 500-page-speed teletext and Prime Timer milestones in product development were 1,981 wireless hi-fi devices with connector system DCS , 1983 the self-powered Radio Turny and 1993 the first fully recyclable television Ökovision .
In 1993 Schneider presented the first laser TV prototype developed in cooperation with Daimler-Benz and Jenoptik AG . The development was not continued until it was ready for the market.
In 1988 Schneider acquired his long-standing turntable supplier Dual from Thomson , but the trademark rights were sold to Karstadt AG in 1995 .
In the summer of 1996, Schneider stopped production at the branch in Nersingen- Strasse.
computer
The "Schneider Computer Division" was set up in the 1980s as a separate department by the Schneider broadcasting works from Türkheim . From 1984 the first models were offered under its own name.
At first it sold the Amstrad CPC 464 under license from 1984 in competition with the Commodore 64. The Amstrad PCW / Joyce writing systems followed later . This was followed by the IBM-compatible Amstrad PC1512 and PC1640 models . The BIOS settings were an innovative in-house development, which until then had to be plugged into the mainboard using jumpers. From 1988 the in-house development Schneider Euro PC was marketed.
insolvency
In 2002 Schneider filed for bankruptcy , and in October 2002 the production facilities in Türkheim, inventory and the Schneider trademark rights were sold to the Chinese electronics group TCL . In 2004, TCL formed the joint venture TCL Thomson Electronics ( TTE ), one of the largest manufacturers of television sets in the world, with the French Thomson group .
When production was stopped at the end of January 2005, 120 employees were still working at the Türkheim plant.
The factory premises were bought by Finsterwalder Transport & Logistik in 2005 and converted into the A96 business park.
Web links
- JOYCE-User-AG eV
- History of Schneider Rundfunkwerke AG (English)
- Article on the insolvency of Schneider Technologies
Individual evidence
- ^ The end of an era , Augsburger Allgemeine , April 17, 2015
- ↑ Walther, Die Firma und Ihrrechner , accessed June 1, 2019
- ↑ Co-founder of the Türkheimer Schneider Werke is dead , Augsburger Allgemeine , March 25, 2019
- ↑ Schneider general catalog 1981/82 , pages 4 to 6, accessed June 1, 2019
- ^ Schneider general catalog 1983/84 , pages 22 to 23, accessed June 1, 2019
- ^ Schneider general catalog 1993 , accessed June 1, 2019
- ↑ Dual Geschichte , Dual-Plattenspieler.de accessed June 1, 2019
- ↑ History, Finsterwalder Transport & Logistik , accessed June 1, 2019
