Gemballa

This article is about the Gemballa company; for the journalist of the same name, see Gero Gemballa .

Gemballa GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	2010
Seat	Leonberg , Germany
management	Steffen Korbach, managing director
Number of employees	18th
sales	<10 million euros
Branch	Automotive industry
Website	www.gemballa.com

Gemballa GTR 650 Evo: Sports car based on the Porsche 911.

The Gemballa GmbH is a German automobile manufacturers and vehicle tuner based in Leonberg . The company specializes in increasing the performance of Porsche vehicles and builds its own vehicles based on Porsche body shells. Since 2012, vehicles from the racing brand McLaren have also regularly served as the basis for car creations in the vehicle refiner's model range.

Gemballa GT (based on the McLaren MP4-12C)

history

In 1981 the company was founded by Uwe Gemballa under the name G-Topline Automobiltechnik GmbH & Co. KG . Initially, the company limited itself to the installation of high-quality stereo systems and interior conversions on VW , Mercedes and Porsche vehicles. With the complete changes to the interior, mostly all built-in parts were covered with Alcantara or leather . But after the modifications to the vehicles by increasing the performance of the engines and changing the bodywork made massive changes to the technology, Mercedes and Porsche no longer allowed their trademarks to be left on the vehicle. Gemballa was then officially recognized as an automobile manufacturer by the Federal Motor Transport Authority .

In 2009, Gemballa Automobiltechnik GmbH & Co. KG had a global sales network with nine sales offices and around 50 employees. After the company's founder Uwe Gemballa was kidnapped in South Africa in February 2010, the Ludwigsburg District Court opened insolvency proceedings on the company's assets by decision of February 22, 2010 .

Gemballa Mistrale

Investor Steffen Korbach acquired the trademark and name rights for the Gemballa brand . The newly founded Gemballa GmbH then took over the assets of the liquidated old company and started new business operations on August 16, 2010. Steffen Korbach has been the managing director since December 2015.

Gemballa GT Cabrio (based on the Porsche 991)

On January 25, 2011, Gemballa Holding SE went public on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. The stock exchange listing ended on December 14, 2012. In 2015, Moritz Hunzinger was added to the management board .

Gemballa interior (in a mistrale)

Gemballa tornado

Vehicle models

Gemballa manufactures various vehicle models based on vehicles from the Porsche and McLaren brands.

• Gemballa Avalanche based on the Porsche 911
• Gemballa Tornado based on the Porsche Cayenne
• Gemballa GT Aero 1/2/3 based on the Porsche Cayenne
• Gemballa Mirage GT based on the Porsche Carrera GT
• Gemballa Mistrale based on the Porsche Panamera
• Gemballa GT based on the Porsche 991
• Gemballa GT based on the McLaren MP4-12C

Gemballa AERO 2 (based on a Porsche Cayenne 958)

Murder case Uwe Gemballa

Company founder Uwe Gemballa has been missing since a business trip to South Africa on February 8, 2010 . On September 28, 2010, the asphyxiated Gemballa was found wrapped in plastic wrap, west of Pretoria . New evidence refutes that Uwe Gemballa was involved in illegal business. According to Stern , on the contrary, it even means that Uwe Gemballa refused a deal of this kind and therefore had to die. In October 2010, a 28-year-old from Pretoria confessed to the crime and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In November 2013, the suspected masterminded Czech businessman Radovan Krejcir, who is alleged to have been involved in several murder cases, was arrested in South Africa.

Web links

• Gemballa GmbH website
• The Porsche man gets things going on Stuttgarter Nachrichten

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gemballa: Porsche tuner with bankruptcy experience , Stuttgarter Nachrichten , accessed on May 7, 2016
2. ^ DGAP-News , accessed on May 9, 2012
3. ↑ Hoppenstedt Aktienführer 2016, page V 31
4. ↑ Administrative bodies website Gemballa Holding SE.
5. ↑ "GEMBALLA GT at the Geneva Motor Show 2012" , car News.de 19 March 2012 found.
6. ^ Entrepreneur missing in South Africa , Stuttgarter Zeitung , accessed on February 18, 2010
7. ↑ Cruel suffocates , Süddeutsche Zeitung November 7, 2010.
8. ↑ Uwe Gemballa - Victim of a Psychopath? stern.de , accessed on November 24, 2011
9. ↑ The murderer of the Porsche tuner convicted , Süddeutsche Zeitung October 31, 2010.
10. ↑ Gemballa murder: mastermind arrested? Stuttgarter-Zeitung.de, November 27, 2013, accessed on November 27, 2013.