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ChiMaAG
Chiffriermaschinen AG · 1923-1935

Chiffriermaschinen AG, in full: Chiffriermaschinen Aktiengesellschaft, abbreviated ChiMaAG, was a German engineering company, founded in 1923 by Gewerkschaft Securitas — a successor of the company Scherbius & Ritter, co-founded in 1920 by German engineer and Enigma inventor Arthur Scherbius. The purpose was to further develop and market the Enigma cipher machine developed by its predecessors. After Scherbius' untimely death in 1929, the com­pany changed hands. In 1935, four years before the start of WWII, the company's assets were taken over by Rudolf Heimsoeth and Elsbeth Rinke, and went on under the name Heimsoeth und Rinke (H&R).

Company name shield as found inside the lid of the Enigma case


ChiMaAG products on this website
'Die Handelsmaschine' (the trade machine), the first Printing Enigma (PE) of 1923
'Die Schreibende Enigma' (the Printing Enigma) of 1926
Enigma H29, the last printing Enigma (Schreibende Enigma) of 1929
Enigma A, the first lamp-based Enigma (Glühlampenmaschine) of 1924
Enigma B, the successor to the Enigma A (Glühlampenmaschine) - 1924/1925
Enigma C, lamp-based Enigma (Glühlampenmaschine) of 1925 (including Funkschlüssel C)
The main Commercial Enigma machine on which all later models were based - 1926
Enigma K, special versions of the Enigma D
Heeres Enigma (Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe)
Zählwerk Enigma A28, the predecessor of the Enigma G
Enigma Z, the numbers-only Enigma
Zählwerk Enigma (Enigma G and Abwehr Enigma)


Specifications
  • Name
    Chiffriermaschinen Aktiengesellschaft
  • Abbreviation
    ChiMaAG
  • Active
    1923-1935
  • Country
    Germany
  • Brand
    Enigma
  • Founded
    9 July 1923
  • Liquidated
    31 July 1935 (?)
  • Predecessor
    Scherbius & Ritter
  • Successor
    Heimsoeth und Rinke (31 July 1935)
Known personnel
  • Paul Bernstein
  • Rudolf Heimsoeth
  • Willi Korn
  • Elsbeth Rinke
  • Arthur Scherbius (†1929)
Address
  • Chiffriermaschinen AG
    Steglitzerstraße 2 (see note) 1
    Berlin W35
    Germany
  1. On 7 March 1936, Steglizerstraße was renamed Ludendorffstraße and the houses were renumbered. After the war, in 1947, it was renamed Pohlstraße (10785 Berlin-Mitte/Tiergarten) [2][3].

Literature
  1. Frode Weierud, Enigma Production at Konski & Krüger
    Crypto Cellar Research, March 2021. Obtained from www.cryptocellar.org

  2. Frode Weierud, The Workers Who Built the Enigma
    16 May 2013.
References
  1. Wikipedia (Germany), Chiffriermaschinen AG
    Visited 24 July 2024.

  2. Berlin, Mitte, Ortsteil Tiergarten, Steglitzer Straße
    Berlin Geschichte, 2008.

  3. Prof. Paul Enck, Strassen im Kiez: Pohlstrasse
    13 October 2020 (in German).
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