Editing Telefunken (section)

{{Short description|German radio and television apparatus company}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021|cs1-dates=y}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Telefunken
| logo = Telefunken.svg
| logo_size = 90px
| logo_caption = Logo since 1919
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| foundation = {{Start date and age|1903}}
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| location = [[Berlin]], Germany
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| defunct = {{End date and age|1967}} merger with parent company [[AEG (German company)|AEG]] to [[AEG-Telefunken]] (1996 merger with [[Daimler-Benz]] and sale/dissolution various company parts), 2005 rename of the last former [[Telefunken division]]
| num_employees = 
| parent = [[Gordon Brothers]]
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| industry = Electrical industry
| products = 
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| homepage = {{URL|telefunken.com}}
}}
'''Telefunken''' was a German radio and [[television]] producer, founded in [[Berlin]] in 1903 as a joint venture between [[Siemens & Halske]] and the ''[[AEG (German company)|Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft]]'' (AEG)<!-- right spelling, sic! --> ("General electricity company").
Prior to [[World War I]], the company set up the first world-wide network of communications<ref name="historyisnowmagazine.com">{{Cite web |date=2014-03-02 |title=The Scientist who World War I wrote out of history |url=http://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2014/3/2/the-scientist-who-world-war-i-wrote-out-of-history |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=History is Now Magazine, Podcasts, Blog and Books {{!}} Modern International and American history |language=en-US}}</ref> and was the first in the world to sell electronic televisions with [[cathode-ray tube]]s, in Germany in 1934.<ref name="etf"/><ref>[http://www.tvhistory.tv/1934-35-Telefunken-FEIII.JPG 1934–35 Telefunken], Television History: The First 75 Years.</ref>

The brand had several incarnations:
* ''Gesellschaft für drahtlose Telegraphie [[Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung|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 [[Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung|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 [[Corporate spin-off|spin-offs]] of its own:
* ''TELEFUNKEN Fernseh und Rundfunk GmbH'', formed in 1972 in [[Hanover]] as a subsidiary of AEG-TELEFUNKEN
* {{anchor|Telefunken electronic}}[[Telefunken electronic|Telefunken electronic GmbH]], a spin-off of AEG-Telefunken and [[DASA]]
* {{anchor|TEMIC}}{{ill|TEMIC{{!}}TEMIC TELEFUNKEN microelectronic GmbH|de|TEMIC}}, since 1992
* {{anchor|Telefunken Semiconductors}}{{ill|Telefunken Semiconductors{{!}}Telefunken Semiconductors GmbH & Co. KG|de|Telefunken Semiconductors}}, formed in [[Heilbronn]] in 2009
* Telefunken Lighting technologies S.L., since 2009

The company '''Telefunken USA''' was incorporated in early 2001 to provide restoration services and build reproductions of vintage Telefunken microphones.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-11-29 |title=TELEFUNKEN Elektroakustik ™ - Services |url=http://www.telefunken-elektroakustik.com/services/index.php#facrestore |access-date=2023-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101129213010/http://www.telefunken-elektroakustik.com/services/index.php#facrestore |archive-date=29 November 2010 }}</ref>

In 2023, Telefunken brand was acquired by the advisory and investment firm Gordon Brothers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gordon Brothers Acquires Telefunken |url=https://www.abfjournal.com/dailynews/gordon-brothers-acquires-telefunken/ |access-date=2023-11-09 |website=ABFJournal |language=en-US}}</ref>