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How it all started …

A word to skeptics from the outset: the

history of AKG is simply too good to have been

just made up!

1945: In a setting reminiscent of “The Third

Man”, two men who had occasionally done

business with one another before World War II

met up again. They discovered that people

sought distraction from the ruins around them

at the movies, but that most of Vienna’s movie

theaters had either been bombed or plundered.

Thus there was a pressing need for good thea-

ter equipment. And so it was that Rudolf Görike

and Ernst Pless conceived a new idea: “Let us

go into business together.” This was the begin-

ning of a success story that has already lasted

over 50 years.

Rudolf Görike started manufacturing movie pro-

jectors and loudspeakers, whilst Ernst Pless

delivered their growing customer base by bicy-

cle and rucksack. As the volume of orders grew,

they even resorted to using a good old-fashioned

wheelbarrow! Their first customers did not have

any hard currency to pay them with, but they

did have pork, butter and cigarettes – fresh from

the black market and in great demand.

1947: The two pioneers decided to set up a

company. Once all the preparations had been

made, the company set up office in a basement

in a suburb of Vienna and hired a staff of five

employees.

Initially the range included products such as

exposure meters, car horns, intercom systems,

carbon capsules and auxiliary handsets for tele-

phones, pillow loudspeakers, and many other

appliances that seem curious to us today. The

product range was continually adapted to meet

demand.

Meanwhile Rudolf Görike, a gifted drawer

and painter, created a logo for the company. It

was he who designed the products, bubbling

over with new ideas and applying for several

patents in quick succession. Before World War

II, he had been involved with microphones as

development manager with the firm of “Henry

Radio”. His hobby remained his profession, and

he was finally able to put his ideas for new tech-

nologies into practice.

The first AKG microphones went into service

the same year, mainly with radio stations, at

theaters, cabarets and jazz clubs. The AKG Dyn

Series, for example, was one such development:

painstakingly assembled by hand, it would be

simply unaffordable today.

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The logo

The first AKG logo with three overlapping rings (symboli-

zing the typical omnidirectional polar pattern of the time)

was designed by company founder Rudolf Görike. With the

introduction of the AKG D 12 – the first microphone with a

cardioid polar pattern – in 1953, the three rings were

replaced with three cardioids. Apart from slight modifica-

tions, this logo has remained in use to this day, and is the

guarantee of AKG’s legendary quality the world over.

Die DYN Series

AKG developed its first dynamic microphones in 1946. With an

annual production of 500 to 600 units, every single component

was manufactured by hand and a wide variety of designs pro-

duced in the “DYN” series – DYN 60, DYN 60 G, DYN 60 K (see

illustration), DYN 60 Studio, etc. The original microphones in

this series have since become collectors’ items.

K 120 DYN

The first AKG headphones bearing the designation K 120 DYN

were launched in 1949. They were equipped with a Trolitul dia-

phragm of molded granulate, since foils were not yet available.

At the time AKG had only one winding machine and one gluing

machine.

The founders: Dr. Rudolf Görike and Ing. Ernst Pless

“The past is of no interest to me. I always look ahead – to the

future…” commented AKG co-founder Rudolf Görike some years

ago. At the time he was already over 80 years old!

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