Kalliope

Kalliope was beside Grammophon the oldest record label in Germany.
At the beginning there was a connection to the Anker Werke in Leipzig, later with Mentzenhauer & Schmidt in Berlin.
The first records were made long before WWI.
In the year 1895 Wacker & Bock was been renamed in Kalliope Fabrik mechanischer Musikwerke, Espenhain, Wacker & Bock.

1910 buys the company Saxon Holzwarenfabrik - Max Böhme AG in Dippoldiswalde in the Ore Mountains and moves its headquarters there, and sold the property in Leipzig in 1911 for 500 000 marks.
1911 a subsidiary has been established in Austria - Hungary.
1914 Kalliope assumes the Anker-Phonogramm-Gesellschaft, Berlin. At the same year the bankruptcy proceedings against the Kalliope Musik Werke AG is opened. The company is in liquidation continued until 1917, and expires 1919.

In 1930 the unbreakable disk MELOCORD was launched

In addition to many made matrices, Kalliope also pressed for American Paramount , Broadway and Banner/Regal. These pressings are Kalliope American Record .

In Germany, the production was discontinued in 1933.

Sources: Wikipedia / grammophon-platten.de