Garbaty (automobile manufacturer)

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Garbaty Auto Plant
legal form
founding 1924
resolution December 1927
Seat Mainz , Germany
Number of employees about 30
Branch Automobile manufacturer

The Garbaty car plant was a German car manufacturer based in Mainz from 1924 to 1927 , the founder was Möise (Moses) Gorbaty, who later called himself Garbaty.

history

Möise Gorbaty, an entrepreneur born in Belarus , first emigrated to Berlin and Vienna in 1905 before moving to France in 1908 . After the First World War, the Gorbaty family emigrated to Germany , where Möise ran a second-hand goods store in Mainz . In June 1921 Möise Gorbaty had his last name changed to Garbaty.

In 1924 he founded the Garbaty Mainz car factory on Binger Schlag and produced his own cars. The Garbaty cars produced from 1924 to 1927 met a wide variety of requirements. The "GARBATY" car 5/25 HP with a 1.2 liter four-cylinder engine was advertised as "... the cheapest and fastest four-seater in Germany". It was built as a Phaeton and sedan and developed around 23 hp . Sports and racing cars were also produced.

With around 30 employees, Garbaty built around 400 cars by December 1927, when he had to give up. The family moved back to Paris . On July 16, 1942, the 13,000 or so Jews who remained in Paris were arrested and transported to the Eastern European concentration camps. Möise Garbaty was deported to Auschwitz in August, where he perished a month later.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GTÜ classic car service
  2. ↑ The Opel Racecourse (accessed on May 6, 2018)