Automobile and motorcycle construction

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Automobil- und Motorradbau AG
legal form Corporation
founding 1923
resolution unknown
Seat Berlin - Steglitz , Germany
management Kurt Herrmann
Branch Motor vehicle manufacture and trade

The automobile and motorcycle AG , abbreviated AMBAG , was a short-lived German company for the production of and trade in automobiles and motorcycles with headquarters in Berlin-Steglitz , Kniep Hofstraße 64th

Company history

The company was founded in March 1923 by businessman Kurt Herrmann, Otto Gandre, Werner Lange, Heinrich Emmerichs and the dentist RM Hocotz. The purpose of the company was to manufacture, buy and sell motor vehicles and motorcycles and all other relevant items . The share capital was 6 million marks when it was founded and was increased to 20 million marks just two months later - probably purely due to inflation .

The company's own vehicle production is said to have been discontinued in the founding year. The further fate of the company is uncertain; it is still recorded in the 1925 edition of the official documentation-based manual of German stock corporations - the editors of the manual therefore had no information about bankruptcy or liquidation until October 1925, but neither about the Legally required capital conversion to the Reichsmark currency introduced in 1924 . In the Berlin address books of the years 1923, 1924 and 1925 the company is not listed at all, in the apartment building on Kniephofstrasse 64 there is only one tenant K. Herrmann with the profession of bank clerk , who is probably identical with the co-founder and board member Kurt Herrmann . Under these circumstances, it seems doubtful whether the company survived its founding phase and achieved a significant production level.

vehicles

The automobiles offered under the AMBAG brand in 1923 were small cars . The motorcycles received a single - cylinder four-stroke engine from Gruhn with a displacement of 155 cm³ .

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