Fritz Fend
Fritz Fend (born April 12, 1920 in Rosenheim ; † November 22, 2000 in Regensburg ) was a German engineer and automobile designer.
Life
Fritz Fend was the son of the businessman and grocer Johann Fend. After graduating from secondary school in Rosenheim, he began studying aviation at the Technical University of Munich . During the Second World War he worked as a test and development engineer in aircraft construction. After the war he worked temporarily as his father's office clerk.
In 1946 he founded his own company called Fritz Fend, Technical Manufacturing Company and began producing vehicles such as the Fend Flitzer , which he marketed as Fend . In 1953 he moved the company headquarters from Rosenheim to Munich. He was best known for the cabin scooter popular in the 1950s . He took up the idea of the cabin scooter again in the last years of his life. He presented the Fend 2000 in 1999 . After his death, however, the project was never completed. It stayed with a prototype, which is now a unique specimen and is street legal.
Fend Mokuli, with Sachs engine
Fend mokuli type 130
Messerschmitt cabin scooter
From 1957 Fend lived in Regensburg. He died of a stroke.
Honors
Fritz-Fend-Straße in Regensburg has been named after him since 2011 . The BR broadcast Schwaben & Altbayern reported on the inauguration of the street .
literature
- Fend, Fritz. In: Hans-Michael Körner (Ed.): Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia . Walter de Gruyter, 2012, p. 502. ISBN 978-3-110-97344-0 ( limited preview in Google book search)
Web links
- Fritz Fend and his speedsters. (Museum magazine of the House of History )
- Mokuli and other companions
- Fend2000 ( Memento from December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (archived version from December 17, 2014 at archive.org)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fritz Fend and his "Flitzer". City archive Rosenheim .
- ↑ Died. Fritz Fend. Der Spiegel 49/2000, December 4, 2000, p. 342.
- ↑ Messerschmitt cabin scooter: The only one of its kind. Augsburger Allgemeine , May 28, 2011.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fend, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer and automobile designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rosenheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 22, 2000 |
| Place of death | regensburg |