Trademark Mende Nephew Martin Mende entered the business in 1925 and continued to expand it. In that year, the company produced around 2,000 devices with 3000 employees. In 1931 Mende was already building 11000 radio receivers. In the 1930s, the company developed into one of the most important market leaders in Germany, among other things through the manufacture of the so-called "people's receiver". However, as a result of the war production and the employment of forced laborers during the Second World War, the factory was dismantled by the Soviet occupying power in 1945.
Before the war, the Mende company had its plant in Dresden, after 1945 it moved to Bremen. Mende became NordMende, most of the early post-war devices up until the end of 1952 still bore the lettering.
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