Fritz Sennheiser and it remains an independent family business to this day. Since , Daniel Sennheiser and Dr. According to its own figures, the Sennheiser Group has around 2, employees worldwide. In , the audio specialist's total turnover amounted to New dimensions of listening, impressive sound experiences and resonant moments to give you goose bumps — this is what the audio world can deliver and what we at Sennheiser seek to excel at each and every day.
Founded in , Sennheiser is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. Shaping the future of audio and creating unique sound experiences for customers — this aim unites Sennheiser employees and partners worldwide.
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Major film, radio and theatre productions frequently owe their excellent sound to our technology, too. Artistic performers, television companies, stadium operators and conference organisers count on Sennheiser. They know that Sennheiser has the ideal solution to meet their requirements.
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University of Luxembourg University of Nottingham ETH Zurich Ghent University Fraunhofer IIS, Erlangen Aalto University KU Leuven During World War II, the institute's building was destroyed by heavy bombing and its staff of roughly 50 moved into an old farm house in Wennebostel, a small town north of Hannover.
After Germany's defeat in the spring of , the Hannover region was occupied by the British Allied Forces. The British military administration made all research in the area of radio frequency and encoding a capital crime but offered Sennheiser the opportunity to continue his work at Cambridge, England. Sennheiser did not want to leave his country and declined.
However, with Germany's academic landscape in ruins, there was no other place where he could make his living as a scientist doing research in his field. With the former institute's remaining staff of seven, Sennheiser decided to make a new start and to found a private enterprise.
In , with his personal savings as his start-up capital, Sennheiser established a radio mechanics workshop and research laboratory on the former institute's premises, which he called Laboratorium Wennebostel, in short, "Labor W. Labor W's first products were made out of seven measuring devices the British had left behind on the institute's premises. Sennheiser and his staff converted the devices into valve voltmeters, and Sennheiser made his first successful sale at the Hannover branch of German electric appliances manufacturer Siemens.
Siemens bought all seven instruments. Some time later, Sennheiser heard back from them again. The company asked if Labor W could take over the production of a special microphone for radio stations.
Sennheiser's team agreed to rebuild the "MD1" microphone from the model they were given by Siemens, since the former supplier's factory had been destroyed in the war. During the postwar years, Labor W developed valuable know-how in microphone technology that laid the foundation for a successful private enterprise. Two years after Sennheiser's team of researchers had begun to build the "MD 1" for Siemens, they came up with their own, improved model, the "MD 2.
However, most of the company's business was still done with Siemens, which in turn helped "Labor W" to become a respected manufacturer in the field of electro-acoustics. Dedicated to pushing the limits in the chosen field, Sennheiser's research team began to put out a constant stream of innovative microphone designs that often set industry standards for many decades.
In , Labor W introduced the "MD 3" "invisible microphone"--an extremely slim design with a tiny head did not obstruct an audiences's view of a performer's face as conventional models did. In , the company launched the "MD 4" noise-canceling microphone that suppressed feedback and ambient noise--a novelty in the market. A major success was the introduction of the "MD 21" reporter's microphone in It's rugged and sturdy design and extreme reliability made it a long-term bestseller among the world's radio and TV-broadcasters.
In , the company launched the wireless transmission system "Mikroport. Besides microphones for the broadcasting and entertainment industry, Labor W developed magnetic acoustic transducers for use in dictating machines and hearing aids. For many years, the company became the sole supplier of these miniaturized microphones, which were roughly the size of a dime, to German manufacturers of dictating machines and hearing aids.
The company also developed amplifiers and microphones for telephone receivers. Due to the quickly rising demand--driven by the growing number of TV and radio stations and the introduction of dictation devices--Labor W grew rapidly. Sennheiser, whose goal initially was merely to create a source of income for himself and his former co-workers, was repeatedly overwhelmed by his own success.
He had never intended to employ more than employees. However, that number was soon surpassed. Even the next limit he set himself of employees did not last long. Between and , the company's sales exploded, from roughly half a million deutsche marks in to almost ten million a decade later. During the same time period, the company's payroll grew from 67 to employees. Labor W had become a major supplier to the German electronics industry, selling its products to brand name manufacturers such as Telefunken and Grundig.
However, with the number of competitors on the rise, the original equipment manufacturer OEM business became less profitable. To lower the company's dependence on its industrial clients, Labor W focused its marketing efforts on its own brand name. In , the company was renamed Sennheiser Electronic, which also became the company's new brand name.
Slowly but steadily, Sennheiser established a network of authorized dealers and expanded the company's production facilities. Determined to preserve the company's independence from outside investors, the pace of this expansion was dictated by the cash flow available for investment. Sennheiser's own brand name business took off during the s. Sales from products with the Sennheiser label rose to roughly two-fifths of total sales by and reached 50 percent by the end of the decade.
At the same time, the company's export business began to thrive, reaching about one-third of total sales by Much of this success was due to two new Sennheiser products that became instant bestsellers. One of them, the MD dynamic studio microphone, was introduced in Its flexibility of use, excellent sound reproduction, and long durability made the MD a long-term bestseller.
Another commercial success of the s in the professional microphone market were Sennheiser's condenser gun microphones, which featured a highly directional pickup pattern that was able to capture the sound in TV and film studios within the viewing angle of the camera while remaining free of ambient noise outside this range.
The "gun mics" became a mainstay in Hollywood's dream factories and elsewhere in the world.
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