Interton Electronic

Interton Electronic Hörgeräte was a German hearing aid manufacturer and supplier of game consoles. With the VC 4000, the company developed the only microprocessor-controlled game console in Germany at the end of the 1970s. Today, Interton is a brand and division of the Danish GN Group. Interton was founded in 1962 by the brothers Hellmuth and Hans-Herbert Türk in Cologne. Initially, the company manufactured hearing aids, to which electronic pocket calculators were added in the early 1970s. From the mid-1970s, Interton also manufactured first-generation game consoles, including licensed versions of Magnavox devices. From mid-1976, the company developed the Interton VC 4000 programmable console. It came onto the market in 1978 and is the only microprocessor-controlled game console in Germany. In mid-1983, the company left the video game industry and has since focused again on marketing hearing aids. The company followed suit Bergisch Gladbach. In September 2005, Interton was taken over by the Danish GN Store Nord, which continued the company name Interton as a brand name. In 2008, GN announced by press release the merger of Interton with the German headquarters of GN Hearing GmbH in Münster. According to the commercial register on 27 November 2009, the Interton Electronic hearing aids merged GmbH with the GN Hearing GmbH. The merger was entered on December 3, 2009 in the commercial register of GN Hearing GmbH. On December 21, 2009, Interton's commercial register entry was deleted.