Friederichs (body shop)
| Carl Friederichs GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | July 1, 1840 |
| Seat | Frankfurt am Main |
| management | Stephan Berger, Henrik Schepler |
| Number of employees | 110 |
| Branch | Body and vehicle construction |
| Website | www.friederichs-frankfurt.de |
Friederichs is a German manufacturer of car bodies and special vehicles in Frankfurt am Main .
history
Heinrich Ludwig Friederichs founded a company for the manufacture of carriages on July 1, 1840 on Grosse Bockenheimer Strasse in downtown Frankfurt .
From 1900 his sons Heinrich and Rudolf Friederichs ran the company. They focused entirely on the construction of automobile bodies. Heinrich Friederichs was granted the first patent in Germany for a cabriolet body. Friederichs was purveyor to the court of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg . Up until the Second World War , the company built bodies for passenger cars on chassis from Maybach , Benz , Daimler , Packard , Adlerwerke , Horch and LaSalle . The oldest still roadworthy Maybach W5 , bodyworked by Friederichs, is on display in the Sinsheim Auto and Technology Museum.
Before the war, Friederichs began building superstructures for commercial vehicles.
Products
Today, Friederichs works in two production facilities in Frankfurt am Main in the construction of new vehicles and accident repairs for cars, trucks, buses and special vehicles. Money transporters , police and ambulance vehicles , armored limousines , laboratory vehicles, fire brigade, municipal and airfield vehicles are mainly produced for export .
Heinz and Gisela Friederichs Foundation
On the anniversary of the death of Heinz Friederichs, the great-grandson of the company founder, in 1991, the "Heinz and Gisela Friederichs Foundation" was established. The foundation is the sole shareholder of Carl Friederichs GmbH and promotes art, culture and the next generation in the body shop.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The roots of Carl Friederichs GmbH. In: friederichs-frankfurt.de. Retrieved February 19, 2018 .
- ↑ FRIEDERICHS: Imprint. In: friederichs-frankfurt.de. Retrieved August 19, 2015 .
- ↑ Company website , About us (accessed on March 5, 2020)
literature
- Werner Oswald : German Cars Volume 2 - 1920-1945 . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-613-02170-6 .
