Telefunken

Telefunken was a German radio and television producer, founded in Berlin in 1903 as a joint venture between Siemens & Halske and the Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) ("General electricity company"). Prior to World War I, the company set up the first world-wide network of communications and was the first in the world to sell electronic televisions with cathode-ray tubes, in Germany in 1934.

==Brand names== The brand had several incarnations: Gesellschaft für drahtlose Telegraphie m.b.H., System Telefunken, founded in 1903 as a joint venture between AEG and Siemens & Halske Telefunken, Gesellschaft für drahtlose Telegraphie m.b.H., in 1923; since 1941 as subsidiary of AEG alone Telefunken GmbH, in 1955 Telefunken Aktiengesellschaft (AG), in 1963 Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft AEG-Telefunken, created in 1967 through a merger between Telefunken and AEG AEG-TELEFUNKEN AG, in 1979 The company also had several subsidiaries and spin-offs of its own: TELEFUNKEN Fernseh und Rundfunk GmbH, formed in 1972 in Hanover as a subsidiary of AEG-TELEFUNKEN Telefunken electronic GmbH, a spin-off of AEG-Telefunken and DASA , since 1992 , formed in Heilbronn in 2009 Telefunken Lighting technologies S.L., since 2009