Vehicle factory Ansbach

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Vehicle factory Ansbach
legal form GmbH , AG
founding 1906
resolution 1917
Reason for dissolution Merger with the Nuremberg fire extinguishing equipment, automobile truck and vehicle factory Karl Schmidt to form vehicle factories Ansbach and Nürnberg AG
Seat Ansbach , Germany
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Share of the Ansbach AG vehicle factory dated July 20, 1916 for over 1,000 marks

The Ansbach vehicle factory was a German vehicle construction company in Ansbach that manufactured commercial vehicles and passenger cars.

Company history

The company was founded in 1906 in the legal form of a limited liability company and converted into a public limited company in 1916 . During the First World War it was involved in Feld-Kraftwagen AG (Berlin) and Lastmotor GmbH (Munich).

In 1917, the company merged with the Nuremberg Feuerlöschgeräte-, Automobillastwagen- and vehicle factory Karl Schmidt to their predecessors, among others, the 1845 founded foundry Justus Christian Braun belonged, under the new company F ahrzeugfabriken A nsbach u nd N ürnberg AG , which in 1920 on the Abbreviation was changed: FAUN-Werke AG . The company's headquarters were in Ansbach, the Nuremberg plant was officially designated as a branch. As a shareholder, Fried. Krupp AG .

After the end of the inflation , which had favored the sale of motor vehicles due to the flight into real assets , FAUN-Werke AG - like many other vehicle manufacturers - got into considerable financial difficulties in the mid-1920s and was placed under business supervision in 1925, until 1926 a settlement could be reached. The company was initially able to make the payments agreed in the settlement by selling the Nuremberg plant. Since then, the company has been called Fahrzeugfabrik Ansbach AG again , the name FAUN remained with the sold plant, which successfully continued to exist - its current successors are Tadano FAUN GmbH in Lauf an der Pegnitz and FAUN Umwelttechnik GmbH & Co. KG in Osterholz-Scharmbeck .

The Ansbach AG vehicle factory, on the other hand, was unable to make the further payments from the settlement in the summer of 1928, so that bankruptcy proceedings were opened in October 1928 , which dragged on for years. The bankruptcy administrator initially continued production until the vehicles that had been started were completed or the materials in stock had been used up, and tried to sell the company's remaining property as cheaply as possible. Among other things, the spare parts warehouse with a smaller part of the machine park was sold in 1929 and operated as Ansbach-Express-Vertriebs-GmbH .

production

In addition to the commercial vehicles, a small passenger car, the Kauz , was also built in 1910 . It was equipped with a 4/14 hp four-cylinder engine that delivered 14 hp (10.3 kW) with a displacement of 1.0 l. Due to the fact that the factory was busy with commercial vehicle construction, the numbers of the Kauz remained low.

management

Karl Schmidt had been a member of the board since the merger in 1917 and was chairman of the board around 1925. The last technical director and deputy chairman of the board was from 1924 to 1928 the engineer Helmuth Eimer (* 1882), who then became a senior employee in Hugo Junkers' group .

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