The German radios from the late 50’s and 60’s exported to the UK were top quality. They surely must have produced less expensive sets for their home market, not everyone would have been able to afford the best.
Has Livewire states in post#4 the move to VHF frequencies was more or less forced upon Germany due to the small number of allocated MW channels. I seem to remember that super regen converters were in use at first to allow the older radios to receive VHF, these converters or super regen receivers were later to cause interference problems as the use the VHF band expanded.
If there are any forum members in Germany with knowledge of the history it would be good to either confirm my thoughts or to correct them.
A paragraph on Super regen in Germany in this document.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~cool386...ne/fremo1.html