Hessian automobile

Hessian automobile company
legal form	Corporation
founding	February 18, 1922
resolution	1925
Reason for dissolution	Takeover by the Waggonfabrik Gebrüder Gastell
Seat	Darmstadt , Germany
management	Werner Leufgen (Director)
Branch	Motor vehicle manufacturer

Front of a HAG Gastell 5/25 PS from 1926

The Hessische Automobil-AG was a German automobile manufacturer in Darmstadt , whose products were sold under the HAG brand .

Company history

The Hessische Automobil GmbH , which apparently had limited itself to the trade in automobiles from other manufacturers, was converted into a stock corporation on February 18, 1922 . The share capital was initially 2.5 million marks , but was increased to 60 million marks on December 15, 1922 because of the increasing inflation . In 1922, the production of automobiles under the HAG brand began in Darmstadt . The company hired Georg Hoffmann , who previously worked for Fafag , as the design engineer . The HAG director Werner Leufgen was apparently also a member of the Fafag supervisory board . It is unclear whether there were business or legal relationships with Fafag beyond these personal connections .

In 1925 the Gebrüder Gastell wagon factory in Mainz took over the company and the brand was now HAG-Gastell . For the time being, production continued to take place in Darmstadt; it was only moved to Mainz in 1926. Production ended in 1928 after around 350 vehicles were manufactured.

vehicles

The first model was the 5/18 hp designed by Georg Hoffmann . This vehicle was equipped with a four-cylinder engine that developed 18 hp from a capacity of 1300 cm³ . The special thing about the engine was the bevel shaft . The new 5/25 HP model followed in 1925 , with an engine producing 25 HP. There was also a sports version with 1500 cc.

At least one vehicle took part in the small car race at the Berlin AVUS in 1923.

A vehicle still exists today, it is exhibited in the museum in the old town hall in Ober-Ramstadt .

literature

• Handbook of German Stock Companies , Volume 30, 1925, Volume 4, p. 6694.
• Werner Oswald : German Cars 1920–1945. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-87943-519-7 .
• Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .

Web links

Commons : HAG  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH ( Memento from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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. 235 .