![]() In 1980, the company entered the aviation market, supplying Lufthansa with headsets. Sennheiser was transformed into a limited partnership ( KG) in 1973. In the late 1950s to early 1960s, Sennheiser met Thomas Schillinger, who was tasked with starting Sennheiser's presence in the United States. ![]() Labor W was renamed Sennheiser electronic in 1958. By 1955, the company had 250 employees, and had begun production of many products, including geophysical equipment, the noise-compensated microphones (DM4), microphone transformers, mixers, and miniature magnetic headphones. Lab W began building microphones in 1946 with the DM1, and began developing them in 1947 with the DM2. The laboratory was named after the village of Wennebostel in the municipality of Wedemark to where it had been moved due to the war. The company was founded in 1945, just a few weeks after the end of World War II by Fritz Sennheiser (1912–2010) and seven fellow engineers of the University of Hannover in a laboratory called Laboratorium Wennebostel (shortened, "Labor W"). ![]() ![]() Sennheiser mm26 magnetic microphones were used as covert listening devices by the Stasi, the official state security service of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). ![]()
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