Private company

Ultraphon

Logo: Ultraphon, Berlin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Former Czechoslovak-German record label based in Prague, founded in 19321

Ultraphon is both the name of a historic device to play recordings and a record label of the late 1920s.2 It is part of Sony Music.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1932Founded1
  • HeadquartersPrague1

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Ultraphon is both the name of a historic device to play recordings and a record label of the late 1920s.2

Corporate structure

Ultraphon is part of a group headed by Sony Group. 288 entities, 31 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

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Products and brands

The inventor Heinrich J. Küchenmeister (1893–1966) from Berlin developed the Ultraphon in the early 1920s as a device to play records. In a round housing, it had with two sound boxes, two tone arms and two speakers at a right angle. As both needles ran at a fixed distance in the same groove, the effect was a gain in volume and a pseudo-stereo.

A company Deutsche Ultraphon AG was founded on 13 August 1925 to produce these devices. Küchenmeister was the main shareholder of the company that was based in Berlin-Lichtenberg. The new devices were no success, therefore the production was changed to normal phonographs. From 1928 Küchenmeister's company Bertona (short for Berliner Tonapparate-Fabrik) took over their production but it was discontinued in 1932.

From Wikipedia’s article on Ultraphon, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

From Wikidata.1

Acquisitions

  1. Succeeded by Gramofonové závody1

Timeline

  1. 1932Founded Founded1

Sources

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