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Company History
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Product Development
Hama digital radio and tuner with RX/TX technology
MoreHama digital radio and tuner with RX/TX technology
Af first glance, RX/TX is only an abbreviation in the technical specifications of Hama’s DIR 3510 SCBTX digital radio and DIT 2105 SBTX hi-fi tuner. In practice, you quickly come to appreciate this Bluetooth technology. For it means that audio signals can be sent as well as received. On the one hand, music is streamed from a smartphone, tablet or computer to the digital radio, or the tuner, via a Bluetooth receiver (RX); on the other hand, it can be sent from here on to other Bluetooth devices via a Bluetooth transmitter (TX). So you are not bound to a particular room, but can, for example, listen to the same music in two different rooms via headphones or speaker box.
Rudolph Hanke: 80th birthday and retirement
MoreRudolph Hanke announces his retirement
On the occasion of his 80th birthday on 28 November, Rudolph Hanke announces his withdrawal from active business life. On 31 December, he leaves the management board and goes into well earned retirement.
Rudolph Hanke and Christoph Thomas
Rudolph Hanke
The Hama partners transfer their shares to family foundations!
MoreWith effect from 30 September 2015 the families Thomas and Hanke, represented by Christoph Thomas and Rudolph Hanke, transferred all their limited partner’s shares on the holding, the “Hama Hamaphot Hanke & Thomas GmbH & Co KG” to the “Adolph and Christoph Thomas Foundation” and to the “Martin and Rudolph Hanke Foundation”.
Christoph Thomas, Elena, Rudolph and Oliver Hanke
Hama Germany continues to grow.
MoreExpansion of the logistics centre
In May, Hama Germany moved into a new incoming goods/office building with just under 9,000 m² of additional floor space.
The new office building
“Between Nature and Imagery” sculpture
The new building overlooks a several metre-tall, colourful work of art entitled “Between Nature and Imagery” (Camera obscura). The sculpture unites tradition and modernism. It symbolises our tradition as a photography company and our forward-looking focus as a modern company.
Christoph Thomas, Pavel Tasovský (Czech artist of “Between Nature and Imagery”) and Rudolph Hanke
Jörg Hempen, Thomas Kopp and Christian Seel-Mayer are given procuration
MoreJörg Hempen, Thomas Kopp and Christian Seel-Mayer are given procuration
After the retirement of Hans Seidl, the new authorised representatives Thomas Kopp, Christian Seel-Mayer and Jörg Hempen take over his areas of responsibility. Henceforth, Thomas Kopp is responsible for finance and accounting, Christian Seel-Mayer for human resources and IT, and Jörg Hempen is responsible for the company’s international business relations.
New ranges of accessories
MoreNew accessory ranges are added for computers, telecommunications and CD archival. The new in-house developments in this area include one of the first ever hands-free phone sets: the MobilSafe system.
New member of the Management Board
MoreChristoph Thomas now joins Rudolph Hanke and Adolf Thomas at the top of the company hierarchy. Adolf Thomas’ son is a third generation family member, and will later take over the management of Hama.
New management
MoreNew management
After his father’s death in 1958, Rudolf Hanke and his brother-in-law Adolf Thomas take over the management of the company in 1959.
Martin Hanke
The logo continues to change
The Hamaphot logo continues to change until the familiar, present-day logo is developed (1968): Hama in broad, red lettering.
The Hama logo until 1966
The Hama logo until 1968
The Hama logo since 1968
Hamaphot KG comes to Monheim.
MoreIt all started in a shed
Martin Hanke’s first office is a shed in Monheim.
Martin Hanke in his “office” in a shed
He has his wife and four children follow him from the Soviet-occupied Dresden to the “American” Monheim. He personally travels by bicycle to suppliers throughout Southern Germany and initially trades in brushes, rubber for soles, stationery etc.
Hanke family, with Rudolph Hanke on the left
New headquarters
In 1946, Hamaphot moves into a larger building which remains the company headquarters until 1953.
Hamaphot now features a new logo.
The Hamaphot logo until 1949, with a powder flash unit as its symbol
Hamaphot KG founded in Dresden
MoreFounding
After completing an apprenticeship as a photographer, Martin Hanke founds Hamaphot KG in 1923.
The Hamaphot logo until 1945
The company initially specialises in photography wholesale and producing laboratory equipment and camera accessories.
Hamaphot in Dresden
Destruction of Hamaphot in Dresden
After destruction of the company in Dresden in 1945, Hamaphot was re-established in Monheim.
The Hamaphot building in ruins