Vacutronics
| VEB Vakutronik Dresden | |
|---|---|
| legal form | publicly-owned business |
| founding | 1957 |
| resolution | 1969 |
| Seat |
 Dresden
|
| management | Werner Hartmann |
| Number of employees | 1400 (1968) |
| Branch | Measurement technology , computers , software |
The state-owned company VEB Vakutronik was founded as an industrial and research company for nuclear physics and nuclear technology . The main research and production area of Vakutronik was, among other things, measuring devices for X-ray and radioactive radiation as well as ionization chambers . The production was completed by electronic and electrotechnical devices such as electron tubes , voltage generators and meters as well as vibration capacitors.
Company history
The first plant, VEB Vakutronik Dresden , was founded in 1957 at the suggestion of the physicist Werner Hartmann . Hartmann was director and at least until 1965 also technical director.
On April 1, 1960, a second plant was created with VEB Vakutronik Pockau.
The companies were subordinate to the Office for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Technology of the GDR. In 1963 VEB Vakutronik was named a scientific industrial company and affiliated with VVB RFT Nachrichten- und Messtechnik Leipzig . In 1968 the company had 1,400 employees, 300 of whom were engineers. VEB Vakutronik Dresden was one of the most important manufacturers of nuclear radiation measurement technology worldwide.
On March 1, 1969, the company was transferred to the VEB RFT Meßelektronik Dresden together with the VEB Funkwerk Dresden and the VEB vibration technology and acoustics Dresden , which was only given the name of the anti-fascist Otto Schön in 1972 . Ten years later this was incorporated into the VEB Robotron Combine as VEB Robotron-Meßelektronik "Otto Schön" Dresden . From 1990 the division and privatization of different parts of the company took place.
literature
- Werner Hartmann: Nuclear research and nuclear technology in the GDR - The VEB Vakutronik Dresden. In: nuclear energy. 4, No. 6, 1962, pp. 489-496.
- Documents of the VEB Vakutronik. 11713 - VEB Vakutronik Dresden. Main State Archive Dresden, accessed on January 15, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Dresden, Fetscherstraße 70
- ^ Documents of the VEB Vakutronik in the main state archive in Dresden
- ^ Pockau-Lengefeld , Willy-Neubauer-Str. 5-7.
- ^ Order on the establishment of VEB Vakutronik, Pockau-Lengefeld of March 29, 1960. In: Law Gazette of the German Democratic Republic II. 1960 (No. 15, p. 149)
- ^ VEB Robotron-Meßelektronik "Otto Schön" Dresden . A joint work of the industrial history working group with the Dresden City Archives. Retrieved January 26, 2016. p. 15
- ^ VEB Robotron-Meßelektronik "Otto Schön" Dresden (PDF). A joint work of the industrial history working group with the Dresden City Archives. Retrieved January 26, 2016. p. 20