Wilhelm Steenbeck

Wilhelm Steenbeck ( born February 28, 1896 in Hamburg, † March 24, 1975 ) was a German engineer.

In the fall of 1923, he founded August Harder, the metal goods factory Harder & Steenbeck in Altona on the Elbe, the first produced electrical parts for the production of radio receivers, and later equipment for demonstration of physical and electro- physical experiments in schools. With the world economic crisis of the late 1920s and the resulting austerity measures the schools fell out as a customer. Wilhelm Steenbeck left the company, which had to be scaled down in order to survive in the market. The company Harder & Steenbeck deals since 1950 with the production of airbrushes.

In 1931 he founded his next company, W. Steen Beck & Co., Hamburg, an affiliate of Precision Engineering, jointly with Arnold Fanck, he developed the first cutting table with horizontally disposed plates and film eingespiegeltem screen. In 1953 he brought out the ST 200 for 16 -mm sound-film material, 1 X 1 X image and sound SEPMAG. 2003, the domicile of the company from Germany was moved to the Netherlands.