Hansa automobile

Hansa-Automobil Gesellschaft mbH
legal form	Company with limited liability
founding	1905
resolution	1914
Reason for dissolution	Merger with Norddeutsche Automobil- und Motoren AG (NAMAG) to form Hansa-Lloyd-Werke AG
Seat	Varel , Germany
management	Robert Allmers (Director)
Branch	Motor vehicle manufacturer

The Hansa Automobil mbH was a German automotive company.

history

The company was founded in 1905 by August Sporkhorst (1870–1940) together with the economist and industrial manager Robert Allmers (1872–1951), who also became its director. In the same year Voiturettes with a single-cylinder engine from De Dion-Bouton with a displacement of 720 cm³ were created . In 1909 the construction of the Hansa factory in Varel (today Neumühlenstrasse / Hansastrasse) began. In 1914, Hansa merged with Norddeutsche Automobil- und Motoren AG (NAMAG) in Bremen-Hastedt to form Hansa-Lloyd -Werke AG Bremen , with Allmers again becoming director. The Hansa-Lloyd plant in Varel had to close in 1930. The majority of shares in Hansa-Lloyd were bought from 1929 to 1931 by Carl F. W. Borgward , together with Wilhelm Tecklenborg owner of the Hastedter Goliath-Werke Borgward & Co. GmbH in the immediate vicinity of the Hansa-Lloyd plant (formerly NAMAG). In 1931 Allmers left the company and the name Hansa-Lloyd was deleted from the company register. In addition to production facilities, Borgward also used type designations from the former competitor. "Hansa" was used as a brand by Hansa-Lloyd and Borgward until 1939.

After the Second World War, the Borgward Group used the name Hansa for various passenger cars as part of the model name, such as B. the Borgward Hansa 1500 . Probably the most famous Borgward model, the " Isabella ", initially rolled off the production line under the name "Hansa 1500". The Goliath GP 1100 was offered from July 1958 as the "Hansa 1100".

Timeline

Borgward group until bankruptcy in 1961
Brand / company	1900s										1910s										1920s										1930s										1940s										1950s										1960s
	0	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	0	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	0	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	0	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	0	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	0	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	0	1	2
Borgward																						Bremer Kühlerfabrik Borgward & Co				Fahrzeugwerke Borgward & Co. "Goliath" as a brand			Goliath works Borgward & Co.			Hansa-Lloyd and Goliath-Werke Borgward & Tecklenborg					Hansa-Lloyd-Goliath Werke AG		Carl FW Borgward											Carl FW Borgward GmbH					Dr. Carl F. W. Borgward Holding
Goliath																																																		Goliath-Werk GmbH "Goliath" and "Hansa" as brands					Dr. Carl F. W. Borgward Holding
Hansa						Hansa Automobil Gesellschaft									Hansa-Lloyd AG						Cooperation in the Association of German Automobile Manufacturers (GDA)									Majority in Borgward and Tecklenborg
Lloyd							Norddeutsche Automobil und Motoren AG (NAMAG), "Lloyd" as a brand																																											Lloyd Maschinenfabrik GmbH		Lloyd Motoren Werke GmbH
NAG	AAG	New Automobile GmbH														National Automobile Corporation					Cooperation in the Association of German Automobile Manufacturers (GDA)											to Büssing AG as "Büssing-NAG"
Brennabor				Brennabor works
 Brand / company in the Borgward group  Brand / company that later belonged to the Borgward Group  Brand / company that later belonged to the Borgward Group (in GDA cooperation)  Independent company (in GDA cooperation)  Independent company

literature

• Harro Neumann: North German automobile pioneers - The story of Hansa and Hansa-Lloyd. Verlag HM Hauschild, Bremen 2005, ISBN 3-89757-239-7 .

Web links

Commons : Hansa (car brand)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Borgward IG
• Borgward.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Hans Christoph von Seherr-Thoss : The German automobile industry. Documentation from 1886 until today . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-421-02284-4 , p. 21 .
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