Heinrich Kämper engine factory

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Heinrich Kämper engine factory
legal form Limited partnership
founding 1901
resolution 1955
Seat Berlin , later Berlin-Marienfelde , Germany
management Heinrich Kämper
Branch Engine manufacturers , automobile manufacturers

Heinrich Kämper Motorenfabrik was a German manufacturer of engines and automobiles .

Company history

Share over 1000 RM in Heinrich Kämper Motorenfabrik AG from July 1934

The company was founded in 1901 by mechanical engineer Heinrich Kämper as a limited partnership . The location was at Kurfürstenstrasse 146 in Berlin W35 . The production of engines began. In March 1903, Kämper presented one and two-cylinder engines for automobiles and boats at the German Motor Show in Berlin . In 1905 the production of automobiles began. The brand name was Kämper . Automobile production ended again in 1906. In the same year, the company moved its headquarters to Berlin-Mariendorf at Seelbuschring 9-17 , from 1915 to Berlin-Marienfelde on a company property at Großbeerenstraße 174. From 1920 Kämper was successfully involved in the development of diesel engines , which were used in particular in tractors, Small locomotives and excavators were used. During the Second World War, the company was incorporated into the Duisburg Demag Group and at that time there were several forced labor barracks on the Marienfeld factory site . The post-war construction of a Kämper caterpillar tractor did not go into series production and the company existed as an engine manufacturer until around 1955.

vehicles

Only one model was on offer. It was equipped with a four-cylinder engine with 8 hp . Most of the vehicles were used as taxis .

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Kämper.
  • Nick Georgano : The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile, Volume 2 G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 (English)
  • Matthias Heisig: The mobile Tempelhof. Motorenfabrik Heinrich Kämper , in: From iron to pralines. The Tempelhof District and its Industry , ed. from the Tempelhof district office of Berlin, Berlin 2000, p. 192 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Matthias Heisig: The mobile Tempelhof. Motorenfabrik Heinrich Kämper , in: From iron to pralines. The Tempelhof District and its Industry , ed. from the Tempelhof district office of Berlin, Berlin 2000, p. 192.
  2. ^ Peter Kirchberg: Automobile exhibitions and vehicle tests around the world. The best from "Der Motorwagen", the magazine for the automotive industry and engine construction. Part 1: 1898-1914. Transpress, Berlin 1985, p. 99.
  3. ^ Forced labor camp in the Berlin-Tempelhof district , in: From iron to chocolates. The Tempelhof District and its Industry , ed. from the Tempelhof district office of Berlin, Berlin 2000, p. 213