VEB equipment factory Friedrichshagen
| VEB device factory Friedrichshagen (GWF) VEB DEFA device factory |
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| legal form | publicly-owned business |
| founding | 1898 (as the company H. Grau ("Hegra") ) |
| Seat | Berlin - Friedrichshagen , Germany |
| Branch | Optics manufacturer |
The VEB devices Friedrichshagen ( "GWF") was a specialist in the production of film and projection technology DDR companies.
history
As the company H. Grau ("Hegra"), Hermann Grau founded a metal goods factory in 1898 at Wilhelmstrasse 4–9 (today water sports avenue) in Berlin-Friedrichshagen . This company manufactured individual parts for radio receivers from the mid-1920s . The main product was loudspeakers . Armaments were produced during the Second World War . After the end of the war, the company was dismantled and handed over to the trust administration. In 1949 the expropriation followed .
From 1950 the company was called VEB Gerätewerk Friedrichshagen . The company was located at Peter-Hille-Straße 111 in Berlin-Friedrichshagen .
At the beginning of the 1950s, VEB was subordinate to the Ministry of Light Industry (MfLI), Head Office (HV) Precision Mechanics and Optics. In 1954 the DEFA studio for newsreels and documentary films ( DEFA : Deutsche Film AG) complained : “The efforts of DEFA (has) so far not succeeded in getting our industry interested in the manufacture of the necessary equipment. The procurement from West Germany and abroad resulted in great difficulties every year. ”DEFA had therefore set up a design office and a workshop for plant construction in the DEFA studio for feature films ; There were also workshops in other DEFA studios. In the following year there was an important organizational change in order to achieve a centralized production of film technology. The Friedrichshagen equipment factory with a design office of HV Precision Mechanics and Optics (Ministry of Mechanical Engineering) was placed under the technical management of DEFA. The company was thus affiliated to the main film administration in the Ministry of Culture and henceforth traded as VEB DEFA-Gerätewerk . The Friedrichshagen equipment factory was under the technical management of DEFA until 1963.
Within a few years, the company's own requirements for film technology were covered and other products were then developed and manufactured. Since now, from the point of view of DEFA, production was predominantly "outside the company", the equipment factory was assigned to VEB Pentacon Camera and Cinema Factory Dresden in 1964 . The plant at Peter-Hille-Straße 111 continued production as “Business Part 6” (also “Object 6”) of Pentacon. In 1965, responsibility shifted back to the industrial sector, i.e. H. now on the VVB control engineering, device construction and optics.
The Pentacon / Gerätwerk Friedrichshagen building in Peter-Hille-Strasse, which had been largely empty since 1991, was largely demolished in 2000 in favor of “high-quality residential construction”.
Development and production
VEB Gerätewerk Friedrichshagen took over the production of slide projectors ("Filius", "Jubilar") from Filmosto, which was also nationalized before it was affiliated to DEFA . The well-known Muck projector for 8 mm films , which has been in series production since 1960, was an in-house production .
VEB DEFA Gerätewerk played an important role in the attempt to establish Soviet 70 mm technology for films in Germany from 1959. The factory was involved in the in-house production of the required device. The decision to show 70 mm films in the GDR was made in 1962, the decision to produce films in 1964. However, the attempt failed due to disproportionately high costs.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Inventory overview ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Landesarchiv Berlin, accessed September 21, 2011
- ↑ a b Karin Schmidl: Alternative housing project has to find a new location - apartments are being built on the Pentacon factory site . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 2, 2000
- ↑ a b device production. Documentation - film and cinematography. DEFA Foundation, accessed on February 22, 2016 .
- ↑ a b technical management. Documentation - film and cinematography. DEFA Foundation, accessed on February 22, 2016 .
- ↑ structure. Documentation - film and cinematography. DEFA Foundation, accessed on February 22, 2016 .
- ↑ see about this projector
- ↑ DEFA inventions in 8 and 70 mm. Filmmuseum Potsdam , accessed on February 25, 2016 .
