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5 unusual facts about Georg Neumann


Georg Neumann

Georg Neumann relocated his company to the much smaller town of Gefell in Thuringia and resumed production at the beginning of the following year.

Production of Neumann microphones was moved into a newly built level 100 cleanroom factory in Wedemark, near Hannover.

In the United States, for example, the "sound" of the best-known crooners of the 1940s (e.g. Bing Crosby and later Elvis Presley) had utilized the ultra-smooth, rolled-off tone of RCA ribbon microphones; pop recordings in the 1950s (e.g. Frank Sinatra and later The Beatles) on the other hand were sharper, clearer, much more "present" and more "hi-fi"-sounding as the result of using condenser microphones with elevated upper-mid-range response.

After the reunification of Germany, the company in Gefell, which had continued to use the Neumann name, became known as Microtech Gefell.

At the close of the war, Thuringia fell under Soviet control and the company eventually became an East German "Publicly Owned Operation" (i.e. a state-run enterprise).



see also

Microtech Gefell

Gefell is the name of the town to which Georg Neumann fled from Berlin in 1943.