Astrawerke

Machine-translated from the German article

Astrawerke AG in Chemnitz was a German company that mainly produced calculating and bookkeeping machines. After 1945, the VEB Buchungsmaschinenwerk Karl-Marx-Stadt, or respectively Robotron Ascota AG, continued its tradition and later also produced office computers and electronic data processing systems. In 1919, John Greve (1880–1967), who had previously spent ten years as chief designer at the Wanderer works, opened his own mechanic's workshop in Chemnitz's city center and began developing a new calculating machine, the later Astra Model A. In 1921 he founded Astrawerke AG with financial support from the banker Wilhelm Nicolaus Dannhof and began production.