Elite car

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Elitewagen-AG
legal form Corporation
founding 1917
resolution 1928
Seat Berlin , Germany
management Paul Muchow , Walter Bodstein
Branch Motor vehicle manufacturer
Status: 1925

Elitewagen AG stand at the International Motor Show in Berlin in December 1924
Share for RM 20 in Elitewagen AG from June 1925

The Elite Car AG was a German company , the cars and commercial vehicles produced.

Company history

The company was founded on September 28, 1917 as a subsidiary of Elite-Werke AG in Brand-Erbisdorf in the legal form of a stock corporation and was based in Berlin . The share capital was 1 million marks when it was founded . The company's purpose was defined as: construction, sales, rental, repair and maintenance of electric vehicles, especially elite vehicles, as well as the establishment of loading and parking spaces in suitable locations, trading in vehicles and vehicle parts of all kinds, participation in similar ventures . The vehicles were sold under the Elitewagen brand .

In 1918, the automobile and machine factory Hentschel & Co. in Berlin was taken over, whose facilities were used as a repair workshop and charging station. In 1919, the Berlin repair workshop of Elite-Werke AG also became the property of Elitewagen-AG. In 1920 the company Deutsche Automobil-Industrie Hering & Richard AG in Ronneburg (Thuringia) , which offered vehicles under the Rex-Simplex brand , was taken over. In 1921/1922 Elitewagen AG acquired a stake in the vehicle factory FG Dittmann AG in Berlin-Wittenau.

In 1923 the production of passenger cars ended in Ronneburg, the production of trucks continued until 1925. On February 16, 1925, the company's general assembly decided to convert the share capital, which had swelled to 78 million marks, to 780,000 Reichsmarks in the course of inflation . After the share capital was increased in mid-1925, production apparently ceased that same year. The company's executive board at that time consisted of Paul Muchow and Walter Bodstein . The factory in Ronneburg was leased to the parent company Elite-Werke AG , the facilities in Berlin were taken over by Paul Muchow under the company Muchow & Co. , and the stock corporation was dissolved in 1928 - “for lack of assets” without formal bankruptcy proceedings .

vehicles

"The electric horse"

Taken over from the production program of Hentschel & Co. in 1918 , the standard electromobile pre-tensioning vehicle for street cleaning and refuse collection vehicles of all kinds was successfully continued in production under the striking name "The Electric Horse" until the early 1920s. It was a drive unit consisting of a rigid, steerable front axle with two 4 HP electric motors, which could be coupled with various functional units (with the rear axle). As a kind of intermediate stage, this vehicle made an important contribution to the transition from horse-drawn vehicles to motor vehicles, as the pre-tensioning wagon could be used for various functions like a horse during the course of the day and seasons. More or less comparable concepts in later decades were equipment carriers and trucks with swap bodies .

Passenger cars

The only model was the 13/40 hp . It was the successor to the Rex-Simplex 13/40 PS .

Trucks

With regard to commercial vehicles, there was a connection to the Gebhardt & Harhorn company . The vehicles were powered by an electric motor. They were tricycles with a single front wheel. The 2.5 HP electric motor was mounted above the front wheel and powered it. The curb weight was 800 kg, of which 300 kg for the batteries . The maximum speed was specified with 18 to 20 km / h and the range with 60 to 70 km.

literature

Web links

Commons : Elitewagen  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Elitewagen.
  2. ↑ cf. the stock shown in the article
  3. ↑ Information on a share of Elitewagen-AG offered as historical security on the website of the securities antiquarian Benecke & Rehse , accessed on September 10, 2018
  4. ↑ Elitewagen-AG (Ed.): The electric horse. The standard electric vehicle pre-tensioning vehicle for street cleaning and refuse collection vehicles of all kinds. (28-page advertising leaflet) Berlin, 1921. ( as reprint : Berlin, 1986.)
  5. ↑ Michael Wolff Metternich : 100 years on 3 wheels. German three-lane vehicles through the ages. Neue Kunst Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-929956-00-4 , p. 107.