Arne Skafte Rasmussen

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Arne Skafte Rasmussen (born May 13, 1912 in Chemnitz , Saxony , † May 30, 1994 in Niederbachem ) was a German-Danish engineer and entrepreneur .

He was born as the youngest of four children of the Danish engineer and DKW founder Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen (1878–1964) and his German wife Johanna Clementine Therese Liebe (1884–1973). He had a sister, Hildegard Ilse (1905–1939), and two brothers, Hans Werner (1906–1945), and Ove (1909–1995). He later married Traude Zauche (1913–1979).

Like his two older brothers, he first attended the Free School Community of Wickersdorf and on May 1, 1925, followed his brother Ove to the educational reform home school on the North Sea island of Juist founded by Martin Luserke .

After studying mechanical engineering at the engineering school in Weimar , he worked as an engineer in the research and development department of Auto Union AG , in the establishment of which his father played a key role. Later he worked, for example, in engine development for Framo . Following the example of his father and his older brothers, he founded and took over companies that were suppliers to the automotive industry.

In 1937 he married Traude Zauche, in 1941 their son Arne junior. born.

At the end of the Second World War , Arne fled from the advancing Red Army to his in-laws in Weimar. After separating from his wife in 1948, he went with his son to his parents in Denmark. There he founded in 1948 together with his father Jørgen an engineering office in the Danish capital Copenhagen , where technical drawings for the motorcycle production of the Danish company Dansk Industri Syndicate A / S created. These motorcycles came on the market under the brand name DISA . For example, he developed a new two-stroke engine for the DISA 125 model . In 1956 he married Inge Wirth and moved with her to Schweinfurt in 1959 , where he worked at Fichtel & Sachs in the development department for industrial engines.

He died shortly after his 82nd birthday.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sievers, Immo, 1958-: Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen: Life and work of the DKW founder . 1st edition Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 978-3-7688-1828-5 , p. 191 .
  2. ^ Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoß: Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen . In: Neue Deutsche Biografie (NDB), Vol. 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , pp. 162 f. From: deutsche-biographie.de, accessed on May 14, 2017
  3. ↑ Jörgen Skafte Rasmussen . From: audi.com, accessed May 14, 2017
  4. ^ Immo Sievers: Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen. The life and work of the DKW founder . Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-7688-1828-4 .
  5. ^ Siegfried Rauch: DKW, the story of a world brand . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1983. ISBN 3-87943-759-9 .
  6. ↑ Jørgen Helme: 75 år til lands & i luften, en dansk virksomheds historie gennem et kvart århundrede 1911–1986 . Bohnstedt Petersen A / S, Hillerød 1986. ISBN 87-982246-1-1 .
  7. ↑ In memoriam . In: Skylleporten. Medlemsblad for Dansk DKW Club, September 26, 1994, p. 4. On: dkw.dk, accessed on May 14, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Rasmussen, Arne Skafte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Danish engineer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz , Saxony
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1994
Place of death Niederbachem