Atlantis Diesel Engines

Atlantis Diesel Engines (Pty) Ltd (abbreviated ADE ) was a company that manufactured diesel engines in South Africa .

In 1979 the state-owned Industrial Development Corporation founded ADE as a semi-state company during an arms embargo . In Cape Colored - Township Atlantis is produced under license from Perkins Engines and the companies involved Daimler-Benz -Konzerns diesel engines, which reached a high market share in South Africa. The South African Defense Force (SADF) also used such Daimler alias "ADE" engines in their military vehicles.

In connection with the cooperation between the Daimler-Benz group and the apartheid state , proceedings are pending against Daimler AG in the USA : lawsuits were filed in 2002 and 2003, some of which were dismissed on April 8, 2009. However, u. a. the lawsuit Lungisile Ntsebezas and his co- plaintiffs , Daimler (2002 still “DaimlerChrysler”), General Motors and Ford are guilty of the following crimes: “ aiding and abetting

• torture [=  torture ],
• CIDT [=  cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment ],
• extrajudicial killing and
• apartheid ”.

The South African businesses of the Daimler-Benz group, which traded there under the name Mercedes-Benz of South Africa (Pty) from the mid-1980s , was headed by Jürgen Schrempp during apartheid . After the end of apartheid, he rose to the position of CEO of the (German) Daimler-Benz AG and DaimlerChrysler AG, while ADE stopped manufacturing truck and industrial engines at the end of the 1990s and laid off almost all of its employees. According to an article in Cape Business News , in early 2001 ADE's only activity was leasing previously owner-occupied properties. In any case, if the company still exists in 2009, it seems meaningless.

See also

• Mercedes-Benz South Africa
• Defense industry of South Africa

further reading

• Section “DaimlerChrysler AG” in “Excerpts from the so-called Hausfeld lawsuit” (PDF; 26 kB), July 30, 2003, on the coordination of Southern Africa

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LUNGISILE NTSEBEZA against DAIMLER AG (PDF; 5.7 MB) law.harvard.edu. Retrieved December 20, 2010.
2. ↑ CIDT = c ruel, i nhuman or d egrading t reatment [or punishment]
3. ^ Translated into German in: Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of December 10, 1984
4. ↑ On the crime of apartheid as a concept under international law, see Article 7 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
5. ^ Cape a nightmare for IDC . Cbn.co.za. Archived from the original on November 19, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 20, 2010.