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− | ''' Graetz (Graetzor)
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− | Company history''
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− | 1866 Foundation as Ehrich & Graetz OHG, Berlin. Manufacture of lamps, burners, cookers and heating stoves for liquid and gaseous fuels.
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− | 1887 Ehrich Graetz dies. His sons Max and Adolf Graetz take over the company.
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− | 1899 A new production facility is built in Berlin - Treptow (Elsenstraße). The workforce amounts to approx. 1000 people.
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− | 1925 Graetz begins to sell radios from the company Elektro - Watt GmbH
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− | 1928 The Elektro - Watt company moves to Berlin - Treptow and is taken over by Graetz. Fritz
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− | Graetz, a son of Max Graetz takes over the management.
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− | 1929 The first appliances appear in the catalogues under the name Graetz.
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− | 1933 The company is renamed. From now on it is called Graetz - Radio AG.
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− | 1938 Graetz is in seventh place in Germany / Austria.
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− | 1941 The workforce now comprises approx. 3500 people
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− | 1942 All business activities are now combined in the Graetz AG.
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− | '''After 1945 West Germany'''
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− | 1947 The company produces radio sets again in Altena (Westphalia)
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− | 1961 Standard Elektrik Lorenz AG (SEL, ITT subsidiary) takes over the majority shares of Graetz. In West Germany there are 13 manufacturing sites.
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− | 1977 Until 1977 you can regularly find devices in the catalogues
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− | 1986 ITT sells SEL and with it the shares in Graetz to the French group Alcatel. Group Alcatel.
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− | 01.01.1988
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− | The Finnish Nokia group takes over the audio and video division and with it the Schaub-Lorenz and Graetz brands. The Graetz factory in Bochum is one of the largest of its kind.
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− | '''after 1945 East Germany'''
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− | 1945 The Stern - Radio - Rochlitz factory produces radios again
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− | 1948 The Berlin Treptow plant also produces radios again.
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− | 1949 Expropriation and transfer to public ownership as VEB Graetz, Berlin.
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− | 1950 The plant is renamed VEB Fernmeldewerk, Berlin Treptow (RFFT).
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− | 1951 Last radio sets appear
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− | 1953 The plant is now called VEB Werk für Signal- und Sicherungstechnik, Berlin (WSSB)
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− | 1992 Siemens takes over the company ==
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− | == Products ==
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− | * [[Graetz complete systems|complete systems]]
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− | * [[Graetz cassette decks|cassette decks]]
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− | * [[Graetz Loudspeaker|Loudspeaker]]
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− | * [[Graetz Record Player|Record Player]]
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− | * [[Graetz Receiver|Receiver]]
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− | * [[Graetz Tuner|Tuner]]
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− | * [[Graetz Video Recorder|Video Recorder]]
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− | * [[Graetz Integrated Amplifier|Power Amplifier]]
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− | == Web links ==
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− | * http://www.graetz-radio.de/graetz_radios_nach_1961.htm
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− | == Logo ==
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− | [[File:Graetz Logo.jpg]]
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− | [[Category:Manufacturer]]
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