Mix & Genest

On 1 October 1879, the OHG Mix & Genest, Telegraphenbau Institution and telegraph wire factory in Berlin- Schöneberg by the merchant Wilhelm Mix and engineer Werner Genest was founded. The company developed very successfully. Genest was since 1886 the sole owner of the company and turned it into a corporation in 1889 with the company ( company name ) Actiengesellschaft Mix & Genest, telephone, telegraph, and lightning rod factory to. Mix & Genest was one of the pioneers of low power industry and established telephone, telegraph and signal systems. 1904, the company had already 2300 employees with offices in Amsterdam and London. 1907 joined Genest from the management and but was still acting as consultant. After the First World War, there were weak current of all kinds, as well as pneumatic tube and small conveyors. After the death of Genest in March 1920, the AEG took over in 1922 the majority of the share capital.

Mix & Genest presented in Berlin from about 1921 to 1927 under the name Emgefunk radios, amplifiers and speakers forth by the Mix & Genest Hansa GmbH were sold in Hamburg.

1930 he acquired the Standard Electric Company AG in Berlin, which was part of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company (ITT ), the company. 1930, Mix & Genest approximately 3,200 employees with a turnover of 21 million RM, the share capital amounted to 16.185 million RM in 1931.

After the Second World War, the company moved its headquarters from Berlin to Stuttgart -Zuffenhausen. In 1958 it came under the auspices of ITT to merge with the C. Lorenz AG, the company has been managed in the future under the name of Standard Elektrik Lorenz AG ( SEL), the company Mix & Genest was no longer used.