Telefunken was founded in the 1920s by German companies Siemens
and AEG.
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In 1934, the first CRT televisions were made available commercially in Germany by Telefunken.
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The first commercially made electronic television
sets with cathode-ray tubes were manufactured by Telefunken in Germany in 1934.
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Vishay acquired Telefunken in 1998,
kept the company's doors open, and Telefunken is still a part of the Vishay family of operations today.
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In the mid-1990s however, Telefunken was offered for sale- the company was
struggling and there was a genuine concern of having to dismiss thousands of employees.