Hanns Grewenig

Hanns Grewenig (born September 30, 1891 in Strasbourg ; † April 6, 1961 in Munich ) was a German engineer and manager in the automotive industry.

Grewenig joined the Imperial Navy in 1911 , graduated as a marine engineer in 1917 and rode submarines during the First World War . After the end of the war in 1918, he completed a commercial apprenticeship and managed several larger repair workshops. In 1927 he joined the Berlin Ford Motor Company AG and in 1928 switched to General Motors  GmbH in Berlin-Borsigwalde, where he was head of customer service and sales manager for Bavaria, Württemberg, Baden and Hesse. From 1935 to October 1938 he was manager of the Opel truck plant in Brandenburg and subsequently the operator of the main Opel plant in Rüsselsheim . From 1941 to 1945 Grewenig was a member of the board of the Vogtland machine factory in Plauen. In 1948 he became commercial director on the board of BMW . In the case of the joint management of BMW AG with the other board members Kurt Donath and Heinrich Krafft von Dellmensingen , this was de facto the same as the chairmanship of the board. Grewenig is an important sponsor of motorsport. In 1954, he signed a license agreement with the Italian manufacturer Iso Rivolta to build the BMW Isetta scooter , which BMW called the “Motocoupé”.

Hanns Grewenig left BMW in mid-1957, officially for reasons of age, but more because of the poor economic prospects for the company at the time.

He died on April 6, 1961 in a car accident in Munich.

Web links

• Hanns Dipl.-Ing. Little. In: BMW history. BMW AG, accessed on October 3, 2014 (dossier on Hanns Grewenig in the BMW Group archive). 
• Manfred Grunert: Hanns Grewenig - the businessman. (PDF) In: BMW Group Mobile Tradition: Portraits. BMW AG, October 2004, accessed on November 22, 2014 (document on Hanns Grewenig in the BMW Group archive). 
• Hanns Grewenig in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)