Kombinat Sternradio

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Stern-Radio HMK 100 Berlin 1986

In the VEB Stern-Radio Berlin combine as the umbrella organization, radio production in the GDR was centrally controlled. In the course of time, different plants belonged to the combine; from around 1970 until the end of the GDR there were a total of four that handled the entire production of radio receivers. The most important works were:

  • VEB Stern-Radio Berlin Stern Radio Berlin Stern Radio Berlin
  • VEB Stern-Radio Sonneberg Stern-Radio Sonneberg
  • VEB Stern-Radio Rochlitz Star Radio Rochlitz
  • VEB Stern-Radio Staßfurt Stern-Radio Staßfurt Stern-Radio Staßfurt

The metal “Stern Radio” logo was also used in other Stern radio companies, so it adorned the wooden housings of some models from Leipzig , Staßfurt and Rochlitz .

From 1948 to 1952 the later VEB Fernmeldewerk Leipzig was also called “Stern-Radio Leipzig”, and radio receivers were also manufactured there until 1951. Later other manufacturing facilities belonged to the combine, such as manufacturers of record players, e.g. B. VEB Elektroakustik Leipzig . In the late 1980s, Stern-Radio Sonneberg and Stern-Radio Berlin, as well as some operations in the ROBOTRON combine, were the only radio manufacturers still producing in Germany alongside REMA and HELI-Radio.

Stern-Recorder R160 from VEB RFT Sternradio Berlin

The combine belonged to the RFT , the manufacturer association for electronics and communications technology in the GDR.

Company history

VEB Stern-Radio Sonneberg

In 1945, the company Elektro-Apparatefabrik Köppelsdorf (EAK) was founded in Sonneberg in Thuringia under Russian management. The company was formed through the relocation of goods and operating equipment from a Latvian electrical engineering company, Valsts elektrotehniskā fabrika (VEF), which in 1944 had mainly produced military radio technology under the management of AEG (including the manufacturer of the Minox small camera). In autumn 1945, the first radios were produced with the Wehrmacht RV12P2000 tube .

Series production of the first radio, model 47/3, began in 1946. In 1950 the Super Model 46/50 became the company's successful model. It was available in a Bakelite case and in a wooden version. On May 1, 1952, the management of the company was handed over to the GDR. It was renamed VEB Stern-Radio Sonneberg . Köppelsdorf was incorporated as Sonneberg 3. In 1959 the first GDR transistor pocket radio " Sternchen " was developed and produced in Sonneberg. From 1961 the "little stars" were also manufactured in the Berlin factory. From 1965 only fully transistorized devices were developed and manufactured. The first stereo receiver left the factory in 1968 .

In 1982 Stern-Radio Sonneberg was the largest manufacturer of radio sets in the former GDR. Chassis were also made for other manufacturers. The devices were exported to countries in the Eastern Bloc and via wholesalers (e.g. Bruns) also to the FRG.

After the reunification, the plant went into liquidation and was quickly wound up.

Former VEB RFT Stern-Radio Staßfurt

VEB Stern-Radio Staßfurt

See: RFT - Das Radiowerk in Staßfurt

VEB Stern-Radio Berlin

The Stern-Radio plant on Liebermannstrasse in Berlin-Weißensee originally belonged to Loewe-Opta (from 1930: Radio AG D. S. Loewe , later Löwe Radio AG or Opta Radio AG ). The Loewe parent plant was located in the western part of the city on Teltowkanalstrasse in Berlin-Steglitz . After the war, the factories were separated due to the division of Berlin. Both plants produced electron tubes (radio tubes) as opta and phonetic radios.

Riebe factory 1927
Ruin VEB Stern-Radio-Berlin Weißensee 2012

The main building of the plant in Berlin-Weißensee was built between 1912 and 1913 for the August Riebe GmbH ball bearing factory . In 1920 production was stopped. Niles machine tools from Berlin-Oberschöneweide took over a large part of the site. Raspe GmbH took over the building and continued production in the main building - soon under the name "Raspe und Riebe".

During the Second World War, Raspe and Riebe received armaments contracts. Among other things, self-sealing fuel tanks for tanks and aircraft, components and control units for “ retaliatory weapons ” and radio technology for the aircraft industry were manufactured. Production for the Air Force was under the management of Opta Radio's main plant in Berlin-Steglitz. The tram was used to transport materials between the factories. Furthermore, on behalf of Steatit-Magnesia AG , Dralowid-Werk Berlin-Lichterfelde, film resistors were produced as a Wehrmacht order WL. During the Second World War, several thousand male and female forced laborers from Russia, Italy, Holland, Poland, Belgium and France, among others, worked in the plant.

Immediately after the end of the war in 1945, the Steglitz-based Opta-Radio AG took over the Raspe and Riebe plant and, initially with 10 employees, set up the production of electron tubes again. First, W312 single-circuit receivers were manufactured using components from Wehrmacht orders. Since bombs had destroyed the rear east wing of the main building, only the front western rotunda on Planstrasse and a warehouse could be used. Because of the reparations payments, further parts of the plant were dismantled in 1946. Phonetika production was held in trust and Opta Radio's main West Berlin factory tried to keep a foothold in the eastern part of the city.

In 1948 Phonetika Radio GmbH was founded in the factory in Berlin-Weißensee. Around 110 employees worked in tube and radio production, which produced around 250,000 electron tubes annually, including types AZ1, AZ11, AZ12, AF3, AF7, CF7, ACH1, AL4 and CL4. In addition, the Einkreisempfänger were W 149 (with the tubes AF7, AL4, AZ1 or AF3, AL4, AZ11) and the Kleinsuperhetempfänger export W (ECH11, EBF11, ECL11, AZ11, EM11) or export GW (UCH11, UBF11, UCL11, UY11 , UM11). After expropriations, the work was called VEB Phonetika Radio from 1950 and was part of the Association of People's Own Companies Berlin VVBB. Even then, the main buyers of the electron tubes were the future operations of the combine (Stern-Radio Leipzig, Stern-Radio Rochlitz, Stern-Radio Staßfurt, Funkwerk Leipzig, Funkwerk Kölleda, Fernmeldewerk Arnstadt, EAK Köppelsdorf - later Stern-Radio Sonneberg). The plant was subordinated to the VVB Elektroindustrie and already carried the RFT trademark . A radio tube ( UEL 51 ) developed by Funkwerk Erfurt was put into production. At the end of 1950, the 1U 11 single-circuit receiver was also produced in Berlin by Funkwerk Leipzig . In 1951 the company was renamed VEB Stern-Radio Berlin . The combine was later founded and the Berlin plant was integrated. It became the headquarters of the combine management. In 1952 the even simpler receiver 1 U16 was released. The tube production was ended, the machines and equipment went to the new VEB tube factory in Mühlhausen (until 1945 electron tube factory of the Berlin C. Lorenz AG ). New radio models came onto the market: Kolibri (two fixed transmitters) and Zaunkönig (four-circle) in the same Bakelite housing. From 1955/1956 the Paganini from Rochlitz was manufactured. The last single-circuit receiver Grünau (further developments of the 1U 11) was manufactured until 1958. The Berolina , Potsdam , Nauen , Werder , Bernau and others were manufactured as in-house developments.

TV production began in 1957. The Weißensee model with a 30 or 43 picture tube came onto the market. There was also a "beamer" (projection picture tube), the Panke black and white projection receiver . VEB Stern-Radio Berlin operated its own repair department in the “industrial shop” on Stalinallee . Little Alex was produced from 1958 . The device could not easily be converted for West reception in Berlin. In 1960 the last television from Berlin came onto the market, the Berolina . In 1962 the plant became the sole manufacturer of portable radio sets in the GDR. The entire production capacity has now been used for small and transistor devices and mobile radio receivers. The models Sternchen , Club , Mikki and Junior , the suitcase devices Party , R111 , R100 Vagant , Camping , Format , Elite , Automatic and Effekt , and the car radios Konstant , Autoportable , Transit and Coupe were produced.

In 1972 the production of radio recorders began. The best known and most popular was the R160 star recorder . It was a joint production of different works: The Nachrichten Elektronik Greifswald (NEG) took over the circuit board production, Robotron measurement electronics "Otto Schön" Dresden manufactured the cassette drives, the heads initially came from the Hungarian factory BRG. After 1979 the production of home electronics was gradually converted to microelectronics. HiFi systems and portable stereo radio recorders are produced. In 1986 an expansion plant was built in Berlin-Marzahn , for which modern pick-and-place machines from Japan and the USA were purchased. Original components from Japan, speakers from Forster, electromechanics from Sanyo were imported to meet these requirements.

In 1990 the Berlin plant was closed and the combine liquidated. All 3300 employees lost their jobs.

  • Wren radio

  • Sonneberg radio

  • Puck portable radio

  • Radio with cassette player

  • Sonett cassette recorder

  • TV

Others

  • Discotheque in Berlin: The popular club “Sternradio Berlin” was located at Alexanderstraße 7 in Berlin-Mitte (closed since July 7, 2007)
  • The former Sonneberg plant in Sonneberg- Köppelsdorf has also been used as the “Stern Radio discotheque” since 1991 (closed).
  • The Kombinat Stern-Radio published the newspaper Der Screen (Rafena Werke) monthly from 1962 onwards under the title The current wave .
  • 1958-1959 the painter created Hans Vent together with Ronald Paris and Rolf Schubert , the mural work and play in VEB Stern Radio Berlin .

literature

  • The current wave. Organ of the BPO (company party organization) of the VEB Kombinat Stern-Radio Berlin, operation Stern-Radio Berlin. Berlin 6.1962 (January) - 31.1989.
  • The screen. Organ of the SED-BPO of VEB Rafena Werke Radeberg. Edited by Management d. SED-BPO. Buchdr. Radeberg, Radeberg 7.1956 (Nov.) - 18.1966.51.

Products

  • Yalta 506, Yalta 5060 - radio models in the 1960s
  • SKR 700 - a stereo cassette recorder (1985-1989)
  • KR 2000 - a mono cassette recorder (1985–1989)

Web links

Commons : Kombinat VEB Stern-Radio  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ W 312. radiomuseum.org, accessed on January 20, 2016 .
  2. ^ Stern-Radio Berlin, VEB; - before Phonetics radio. radiomuseum.org, accessed January 20, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Weissensee. radiomuseum.org, accessed January 20, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Alex. radiomuseum.org, accessed January 23, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Berolina. radiomuseum.org, accessed January 23, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Berliner Zeitung: Sternradio becomes Centrum