Vehicle factory Düsseldorf

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Vehicle factory Düsseldorf AG (Fadag)
legal form Corporation
founding 18 July 1918
Seat Dusseldorf , Germany
management
  • Hermann Kocks
  • Max Sichel
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Advert of the importer of the Netherlands (1920)
Share over 1000 marks in the vehicle factory Düsseldorf AG on November 25, 1922

The Fahrzeugfabrik Dusseldorf AG (Fadag) was a German vehicle - company based in Dusseldorf . The company was founded as a stock corporation on July 18, 1918 with a capital of 300,000 marks . Between 1921 and 1925 at the latest, it produced passenger cars under the Fadag brand . In 1925 the Fadag vehicle brand disappeared from the market, and the stock corporation ceased to exist in 1932 at the latest.

The brand can easily be confused with the Fafag brand of the vehicle factory in Darmstadt .

Company history

Production and administration were housed around 1921 on the property previously used by the W. Ruthemeyer & Sons malt factory at Kavalleriestraße 22 (and Reichsstraße 12). This location to the west of the estate was more of an upscale residential area; the malt factory had apparently given up the location under pressure from private residents. The building of the malt factory was rebuilt for Fadag by the Düsseldorf architect Otto Frings . In addition to this, the company had two other locations in Düsseldorf by 1925 at the latest, neither of which were either larger or cheaper. In 1925 it was planned to move to an apparently newly acquired, 9,200 m² plot of land in a location that was not described in detail.

In the period around 1922/1925 Hermann Kocks managed the company as sole director. Kocks ran a "vehicle factory" under his own name in Düsseldorf-Heerdt around 1916 , which was also managed by his wife Emmy Kocks, nee. Rossbach participated. At the same time and also under his name, he maintained a sales organization for motor vehicles from the Eisenach vehicle factory for Rhineland and Westphalia.

Parallel to the Fadag Aktiengesellschaft as a producer, there was also a Fadag automobile sales organization in the legal form of a GmbH , whose management Hermann Kocks handed over to his brother-in-law Walter Roßbach in 1922 .

In 1925, the Mülheim entrepreneur Ernst Coupienne (1870–1945) and the Düsseldorf banker Max Sichel sat on the company's supervisory board .

Products

From 1921 two car types were offered, a 6/16 hp and a 12/32 hp . An advertisement from the same period mentioned a Type 101 (without technical data). The smaller of the two cars was later replaced by a 2.1-liter four-cylinder model with an engine from the manufacturer Basse & Selve .

In 1922 the six-cylinder model 10/50 hp with a displacement of 2.6 l appeared . The motor came from Siemens & Halske , the four-speed gearbox from the Friedrichshafen gear factory and the design from Georg Bergmann in Berlin.

At least one vehicle took part in the small car race at the Berlin AVUS in 1923.

literature

  • Hans Arthur Lux (Ed.): Düsseldorf. (= German urban architecture, works and works of German self-government. ) Deutsche Kunst- und Verlagsanstalt, Düsseldorf 1921/1922, p. 326 f. (double-sided advertisement, with graphic representations of the factory and a four-door sedan Type 101 )
  • Handbook of German stock corporations , 30th edition 1925, Volume III, p. 4915.
  • Werner Oswald : German Cars 1920–1945. 10th edition, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-87943-519-7 , p. 441 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handbook of German Stock Companies , 37th edition 1932.
  2. ↑ Der Motorwagen , 19th year 1916, p. 339. (Issue of individual power of attorney to Emmy Kocks)
  3. ↑ Der Motor , year 1916, p. 142.
  4. ↑ Der Motorwagen , 25th year 1922, p. 103.
  5. ^ Hans Christoph von Seherr-Thoss : The German automobile industry. Documentation from 1886 until today . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-421-02284-4 , p. 235 .