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Fernseh

German company did research and manufacturing of television equipment

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ5445134 ↗
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Fernseh AG was a German television company headquartered in Berlin. Founded in 1929, it did research and manufacturing of television equipment.

Etymology

The company name "Fernseh AG" is a compound of Fernsehen ‘television’ and Aktiengesellschaft (AG) ‘joint-stock company’. The company was mainly known by its German abbreviation "FESE". See the see also section on this page for other uses.

Early years

The company was registered in Berlin on July 3, 1929, by John Logie Baird, Robert Bosch, Zeiss Ikon and D.S. Loewe as partners. John Baird owned Baird Television Ltd. in London, Zeiss Ikon was a camera company in Dresden, D.S. Loewe owned a company in Berlin and Robert Bosch owned a company, Robert Bosch GmbH, in Stuttgart. It had an initial capital of 100,000 Reichsmark.

In 1929 Fernseh AG's original board of directors included: Emanuel Goldberg, Oliver George Hutchinson (for Baird), David Ludwig Loewe, and Erich Carl Rassbach (for Bosch) and Eberhard Falkenstein who did the legal work.

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The public source identifies “Fernseh” as german company did research and manufacturing of television equipment. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Fernseh, German and company.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1929—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Fernseh, German and company providing the first useful test.
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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5445134. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1929.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fernseh” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.