Otto Griessing

Otto Griessing ( born January 19, 1897 in Munich, † November 11, 1958 in Lingen ) was a German electrical engineer. Otto Griessing became known as the developer of the "people's receiver ", one on the 10th Great German Radio Exhibition in August 1933 presented to the public radio system ( Audion ). Griessing developed the device at the behest of the Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Folk recipients were in the different versions in the German Reich between 1933 and 1945 most produced radios. too, in 1938 published " German Small receiver " is called the people's Receiver.

The son of a Bavarian sergeant attended school in Munich, moved in 1914 as a volunteer in the field, where he participated as a radio operator, most recently as a lieutenant in the fighting in the east and west. In 1918 he was employed in the Orient and interned after the Turkish ceasefire. From 1919 he studied at the Polytechnic Institute in Würzburg (now University of Applied Sciences).

With interest in high-frequency technology, he began in Berlin at the company Erich F. Huth under the laboratory manager Karl Rottgardt. Some years later he moved to the transmitter Munich, he built up with. At the start of transmission of the Germans hour on March 30, 1924, he was Technical Director. From January 1926 to August 1927 he was involved as a Technical Director in building a communications engineering factory in Dobbiaco (Italy ), over which he presided. As of September 1927, he worked in Berlin -Schöneberg with Georg Seibt, where he soon rose to become chief designer. At the request of Goebbels he began in the spring of 1933 with the construction of an inexpensive high-quality radio receiver. Competitors were the two Berlin companies Blaupunkt (formerly " Ideal radio" ) and Telefunken. , The selection committee decided to use his model (VE 301). The design of the case stemmed mainly from Walter Maria Kersting. On the Radio Exhibition 1933 was 76, -. touted RM at half the price of a comparable unit in the fall and 200,000 units were sold at the 16th Great German Radio and Television exhibition Berlin 1939 got Griessing in SA uniform handed the radio over 10,000 price RM.