German automobile industry Hering and Richard

German automobile industry Hering & Richard
legal form
founding	1902 (as Deutsche Automobil-Industrie Friedrich Hering OHG )
resolution	1922
Reason for dissolution	Takeover by Elite-Werke AG
Seat	Ronneburg (Thuringia) , Germany
management	Friedrich Hering Carl Richard
Number of employees	about 300 (1902) about 600 (during the First World War )
Branch	Motor vehicle manufacturer

Walther Nernst drives a Rex Simplex motor vehicle. (1904)

The German automobile industry Hering & Richard was a German company that produced motor vehicles in its factory in Gera - Untermhaus . The company headquarters was from 1904 Ronneburg (Thuringia) .

history

The company was founded in 1902 under the company Deutsche Automobil-Industrie Friedrich Hering in the legal form of a general partnership (oHG) . Friedrich Hering had already operated a supplier company for bicycle and car parts as well as axles and chassis frames from 1888 . For Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft and Benz & Cie. were ball bearings axes made and for Michelin steel disc wheels with removable hard rubber rim that were still built in large numbers in the new plant.

The company, with around 300 employees, immediately became known in the automobile and commercial vehicle industries in 1902 because a particularly modern, solidly built light truck was manufactured there under the brand "Rex-Simplex", of which modifications were also built as robust passenger vehicles . This light commercial vehicle was one of the most famous trucks until the First World War.

In 1904 the entrepreneur Carl Richard, who owned a factory in Ronneburg, became a new shareholder; the company now traded under the name of Deutsche Automobil-Industrie Hering & Richard .

In 1913 the Hering wheel department was spun off, which was very successful up to the Second World War. During the First World War , the standard 3-ton truck was manufactured by around 600 employees. After the war, the three-ton truck was built further; the rebuilt Rex-Simplex was exported all over the world. Nevertheless, Hering and Richard did not manage to raise the necessary capital to survive on their own: In 1922, the factory was taken over by Elite-Werke AG in Brand-Erbisdorf . The bodywork plant in Ronneburg was spun off. Thus the company Deutsche Automobil-Industrie Hering & Richard and the Rex-Simplex brand went out .

literature

• The history of German truck construction. Volume 1, Weltbild Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-89350-811-2 , pages 57-59.

Web links

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