Alfred Haesner

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The VW T1 developed by Haesner .

Alfred Haesner (* 1896 ; † 1975 ) was an engineer and development manager at Volkswagen in Wolfsburg and the Ford works in Cologne.

Haesner, who holds a doctorate in engineering, worked in truck development at Magirus at the beginning of his career , and from 1925 to 1934 he was chief designer at the research institute for motor vehicles at the Technical University in Berlin-Charlottenburg . Until the end of the Second World War he was a designer of delivery vans and trucks at the Phenomenon works in Zittau .

In 1948 Haesner became head of technical development at Volkswagenwerk GmbH. VW general director Heinrich Nordhoff commissioned him with the design of the van proposed by Ben Pon in April 1947 . Under the abbreviations EA 7 (development contract) or "Type 29", Haesner and his team developed the VW Transporter T1, later briefly known as "Type 2", as the second civil series from VW within 51 weeks until November 1949 at the Volkswagen factory . In 1952 Haesner moved to Ford in Cologne, where he was responsible for the development of the Ford FK 1000 . The FK 1000 (Ford Cologne; 1000 kg payload ) came onto the market in 1953 and was renamed Taunus Transit in 1961. The designs of the T1 and FK 1000 differed fundamentally: While the T1, like the VW Beetle, had an air-cooled rear engine, the FK 1000 had the water-cooled engine at the front.

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  1. ↑ Bernd Wiersch: The VW Bulli. The transporter legend for people and loads. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2009, p. 25
  2. ↑ Alexander Storz: 50 Years of the VW Bus - Prohibited - The Bulli, which was never allowed to be called that, became a bestseller in southern Germany on August 7, 2001.
  3. ^ Ford Transit - The Mass Freighter , in Spiegel Online , December 27, 2003.
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SURNAME Haesner, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hasner, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Engineer and head of development at Volkswagen and Ford
DATE OF BIRTH 1896
DATE OF DEATH 1975