Abt Sportsline

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ABT SPORTSLINE limited liability company

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1896/1991
Seat Kempten , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Thomas Biermaier & Hans-Jürgen Abt
Number of employees 138 (annual average 2018)
sales over 41 million euros (2018)
Branch Vehicle tuning , automobile manufacturers
Website www.abt-sportsline.de

The Abt Sportsline GmbH (spelling: ABT Sportsline ) is a globally active German company based in the Bavarian town of Kempten , which carries out conversions of vehicles, motor racing and vehicle tuning for vehicles from the manufacturers Audi , Seat , Škoda and Volkswagen .

The family business under the management of Thomas Biermaier and Hans-Jürgen Abt goes back to a horse smithy founded in 1896 in the old town of Kemptens. In 1991, today's Abt Sportsline GmbH was founded, which concentrates on the modification of individual vehicle models, among other things through sports suspensions, chip tuning or aerodynamic and visual changes. The family business has a racing department, u. a. in the DTM and the formula E .

history

Founding years

Johann Abt, the company's founder, portrayed by Andor Ákos .

In 1896 Johann Abt (* 1869; † 1933) set up his own forge in Kempten. He developed a skid construction that horse-drawn carts could also use in winter.

From the forge to the car repair shop

Before the First World War, the blacksmith Johann Abt began repairing and trading cars and thus created a second mainstay. The forge remained the main source of income. Johann Abt's sons Josef and Hans began training in automotive engineering in the 1920s. At the end of the 1920s, "AUTO-ABT" decoupled from the forge that Johann Abt ran until his death in 1933. A dealership for Horch and Audi vehicles was opened in Kemptener Burgstrasse .

post war period

Josef Abt fell in World War II. In the post-war period , his widow Rosina took over his position in the management of the family business at the side of her brother-in-law Hans Abt. A master mechanic and two journeymen initially formed the staff. Since the private car sector was idle after the war, the repair of military vehicles was the main source of income. In 1948 Johann Abt (* December 20, 1935 - October 11, 2003), the son of Josef and Rosina Abt, began his apprenticeship in the family business, which found a new headquarters at Oberwanger Straße 16 in Kempten. In view of the slowly rising economy, vans were in great demand for trade and craft . Rosina Abt added the 1.1 ton Borgward transporter to its range and sold 100 units by 1950 alone. Rising car sales pushed commercial vehicles out of the range of the company, which continues to operate as "AUTO-ABT". Founder grandson Johann Abt contested his first motorcycle race in 1950. He celebrated successes in motorcycle competitions. His strength: The technically adept racing driver managed to increase the power of the engines. The first customers also wanted "a DKW that is as fast as the one from the Abbot". In 1962 Johann Abt founded "Abt Tuning" and incorporated the company into the family business. After the demise of the DKW brand, Abt tuned Audi and Volkswagen models.

1991 until today

In 1991 the headquarters of the Abt company moved from Oberwanger Straße to Daimlerstraße in Kempten-Leubas, where within a year the Kempten architect Dietmar Prokop set up a 3,500 square meter company headquarters on federal highway 7 . In addition, the company was given a new name: Abt Sportsline GmbH. Johann Abt's sons Christian (* May 8, 1967) and Hans-Jürgen Abt (* December 24, 1962) are appointed managing directors . In October 2002 a 3,000 square meter extension was inaugurated, and the Abt'sche Motorsport Museum has had a new extension since November 2013. After the death of Johann Abt in 2003, the two sons ran the company. Christian Abt left the management team at his own request in 2011. Hans-Jürgen Abt remained the sole managing director until 2019 and in the same year handed over the management to Thomas Biermaier. From now on, Hans-Jürgen Abt accompanies the management as managing partner.

In the summer of 2011, Abt Sportsline celebrated its 115th company anniversary. 170 employees work for Abt Sportsline in the headquarters in Kempten, the company's products are sold in more than 50 countries around the world. Since 2009, Abt has also been active in the field of electromobility with its e-Line .

  • Johann Abbot's forge around 1896

  • Company building "Motorräder Graefe & Abt Automobile", approx. 1920

  • "Auto-Abt" company building in Kemptener Burgstrasse

  • Company building of the "Auto-Abt OHG" in Oberwanger Straße 16, Kempten

  • The current Abt company building at Daimlerstrasse 2, Kempten

Motorsport

With a motorcycle race on the grass track in 1950, Johann Abt started his career and with it the motorsport career of his company. Today Abt Sportsline is one of the most successful German motorsport teams and has won titles in the Super Touring Car Cup (driver title: 1999), in the DTM (driver title: 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009; team title: 2004, 2007, 2011) and the ADAC GT Masters (driver title: 2009; team title: 2010) three of the most important German racing series of recent years. Abt Sportsline has been an official Audi Sport works team in the DTM since 2004 and competes as such under the name Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline .

The most successful year for Abt Sportsline to date was 2009, when the team competed in three series and each won the title: in the DTM ( Timo Scheider ), in the ADAC GT Masters ( Christian Abt ) and in the ADAC Formula Masters ( Daniel Abt ). In 2013 and 2014 Daniel Abt started in the GP2 racing series and since September 2014 together with Lucas di Grassi as a driver in the FIA ​​Formula E Championship.

Formula E.

ABT Sportsline has participated in the FIA Formula E championship with a team since the racing series was founded in 2014 .

Season 3 (2016/2017)

The "Audi ABT" team finished the team classification in second place with their drivers Lucas di Grassi (champion) and Daniel Abt (8th place).

Season 4 (2017/2018)

In the past season 4 (2017/18), the racing team won the team ranking by a wafer ahead of the " Techeetah " team, which was only 2 points behind. Lucas di Grassi finished the drivers' standings in 2nd place, Daniel Abt (son of Hans-Jürgen Abt ) finished 5th. Both drivers were able to win two races each. For this season Audi took over the team from ABT Sportsline and started as Team Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler .

Web links

Commons : Abt Sportsline  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Official company name according to the commercial register: Local court Kempten (Allgäu), HRB 4448.
  2. ↑ Imprint . Abt Sportsline GmbH website, accessed on January 25, 2020.
  3. ↑ Annual financial statements for the 2018 financial year of Abt Sportsline GmbH. In: Bundesanzeiger , September 24, 2019, accessed on January 25, 2020.
  4. ↑ Annual financial statements for the 2018 financial year of ABT Sportsline GmbH. In: Bundesanzeiger , September 25, 2019, accessed in the company register on January 25, 2020.
  5. ↑ Federal Motor Transport Authority (Ed.): Press release No. 6/2003 (PDF; 29 kB)
  6. ↑ Auto-motor-sport.de: "Team portrait: Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline" ( Memento from January 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ playboy.de: "Gasoline in the Blood" ( Memento from July 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ a b c Thomas Lang "The Abbot - The Story"
  9. ^ "Johann Abt - a life for motorsport" Autowallpaper.de, accessed on July 20, 2012
  10. ↑ "The family has been winning at full throttle for 60 years" ( Memento from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Motorsport-aktuell.com on January 18, 2011
  11. ↑ all-in.de: "At Abt-Sportsline it's buzzing tremendously" ( Memento from March 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Krone.at: "The 6th Abt Racing Show in Kempten" ( Memento from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Rainer Braun: "Hello, how are you"
  14. ↑ ABT Sportsline. ITR eV, archived from the original on November 5, 2013 ; accessed on May 31, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Timo Pape: All results of Formula E. Accessed on August 21, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Timo Pape: All results of Formula E. Accessed on August 21, 2018 .
  17. ^ Formula E. Accessed April 27, 2018 .


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