AEG - Allgemeine Elektricitäts Gesellschaft

AEG (Allgemeine Elektricitäts Gesellschaft) was established in Berlin in 1883 by Mr. Rathenau, who had obtained the Edison system patent for producing incandescent lamps in Germany. The first AEG factory therefore produced lamps, which meant that it entered the same sector as Siemens and the American company General Electric. The development of electronics and market requests pushed AEG to develop in other sectors such as small, and subsequently big, motors.

A further step that confirmed the AEG brand in Europe and throughout the world was its production of low voltage devices, switches and transformers for medium and high voltages. AEG was certainly pulled along by the economic development of electrotechnics, but with its study and research centres it became a pioneer in the development of more modern technology.

After this, AEG activity and its production of electrotechnical devices turned towards the navy, the railway, white goods and electric powertools, overvoltage dischargers, relays of every type, rectifiers, measuring instruments, lighting devices, low voltage devices, etc. All the low voltage electronic fields were covered by 42 factories that existed until 1998, when the AEG group divided into many autonomous activities with new partners.

The authorized distributor of the low voltage devices became Elettra Srl, who had absorbed this activity from the Italian AEG (after a period of AEG-Ticino collaboration).