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The Heinrich Buhne company was a German cartwright that was based in Berlin .

In 1919 Heinrich Buhne (1889–1968) founded a body shop in Berlin. As early as 1923, he sent three vehicles to a stand at the Berlin Motor Show . He specialized in taxis and was known in the 1920s for inexpensive but solid bodies on the chassis of many well-known automobile manufacturers (e.g. Steyr or Adler ). Individual convertibles were also created.

During the Second World War , the company worked for the Wehrmacht and the production facilities were relocated to Mecklenburg to protect against air raids . At the end of the war in 1945, these facilities fell into the hands of the Soviet Union and were probably completely dismantled.

After the war, Buhne set up his business again in Berlin. This new company with around 50 employees (as of 1996) only produced special bodies for commercial vehicles , in particular bodies for fire-fighting vehicles and equipment trailers . However, as the market for such vehicles became too small due to increasing standardization and the use of all-round vehicles to be able to successfully compete with significantly larger manufacturers such as Ziegler and Metz , the Buhne company was dissolved in 2005.

literature

• Werner Oswald : German Cars Volume 2 - 1920-1945 . 2nd new edition, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-613-02170-6