Badenia Automobile Works

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Badenia Automobilwerke AG

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legal form Corporation
founding October 1923
resolution 1925 (opening of bankruptcy proceedings)
Seat Hamburg , Germany
management
  • Chr. Schickel (board member)
  • Otto Theodor Albrecht Hassel (Supervisory Board)
  • Gustav Carl Kaufmann (Supervisory Board)
  • Gerhard Maria Fritze (Supervisory Board)
  • Oskar Brickenstein (Supervisory Board)
Branch Automobile manufacturer

The Badenia automotive Werke AG was a German company for the production of automobiles with headquarters in Hamburg and production facilities in Ladenburg . It was founded in 1923 and went bankrupt in 1925.

Company history

The company was founded by engineer Karl Guido Thetard , Carl Alexander Günther Nette , Christoph Friedrich Kuhlmann , Walter Julius Ernst Ebner and Alfred Carl Eduard Hassel in October 1923. Several former employees of the C. Benz Söhne company were among the founders . The brand name was Badenia . The purpose of the company was stated to be the operation of an automobile plant in Ladenburg, the manufacture and sale of motor vehicles, all associated parts and other machine parts, trading in these items and their repair .

When it was founded shortly before the end of hyperinflation , the share capital was 30 billion marks ; it was not officially converted to 24,000 Reichsmarks until February 1925 . The company's board member was Chr. Schickel , the most recent members of the supervisory board were Otto Theodor Albrecht Hassel (Hamburg), Gustav Carl Kaufmann (Hamburg), bank director Gerhard Maria Fritze (Amsterdam) and Oskar Brickenstein (Düsseldorf-Oberkassel).

In August 1925 bankruptcy proceedings were opened and the Mannheim lawyer Beyerlen was appointed as administrator . Since some sources date the end of production to 1926, the liquidation of the company should have been completed that year. It is no longer understandable whether, in addition to the changed economic framework conditions after the currency stabilization, individual reasons also played a role in the failure of the company.

vehicles

Only one model was offered. It had a six-cylinder engine with a displacement of about 2000 cc . Some sources believe that the model was called 10/40 PS - however, according to the regulations in force in Germany at the time, an engine with 10  tax PS should have had a displacement of around 2600 cm³. One source states that the engine came from C. Benz Söhne - but there is generally no evidence that this company produced a six-cylinder engine.

literature

Web links

Commons : Badenia Automobilwerke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Werner Oswald: German Cars 1920–1945. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-87943-519-7 , p. 434.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Handbook of German Stock Companies , 30th edition 1925, Volume 3, p. 4956.
  3. ^ A b c Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Badenia.
  4. ↑ a b c d Badenia Automobilwerke AG, Ladenburg. GTÜ classic car service; accessed on May 13, 2017
  5. ↑ a b Badenia on dauto.nl (Dutch); accessed on May 13, 2017
  6. ^ Badenia in the Allcarindex (English); accessed on May 13, 2017