Hildebrand Automobile Works

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Martin Hildebrand Automobil-Werke AG
legal form Corporation
founding 1921
resolution 1926
Reason for dissolution bankruptcy
Seat Singen (Hohentwiel) , Germany
management Martin Hildebrand
Branch Automobile manufacturer

The Martin Hildebrand Automobil-Werke was a German manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Martin Hildebrand (1882–1953), who had been running the Hohentwiel Garage repair shop in Singen (Hohentwiel) since 1920 , founded the company on December 2, 1921 in the same location. The production of automobiles began. The brand name was Hildebrand . A kneeling knight was depicted on the emblem. The company presented three vehicles at the Berlin Motor Show in 1924, which were bought by Harry Piel , Lee Pari and Graf von Soden . A serious accident involving Martin Hildebrand in 1925, after having been unable to work for almost a year, hampered the company. The second managing director Ott took money from the company. Bankruptcy followed in 1926 . Another source states that both the auto show attendance and the accident were in 1923, bankruptcy in 1924, and only about 100 vehicles were produced.

number of pieces

Older sources name almost 450 vehicles. Newer sources give around 100 or 120 vehicles.

vehicles

The first model was the 5/15 hp . This was a small car. A built-in engine from Steudel-Werke drove the vehicle. The four-cylinder engine with 65 mm bore , 100 mm stroke and 1327 cm³ displacement developed 15 hp . Also Selve and Protos traditional motors. A special feature was the four-speed Soden preselection gearbox from Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen AG . The gearbox is named after the designer Alfred Graf von Soden-Fraunhofen. The vehicle weighed 650 kg and reached a top speed of 65 km / h .

The 6/18 HP and 6/20 HP models are also mentioned.

According to his own statements, a Mr. Washburne from Fair Harem in the USA drove a vehicle from this manufacturer until at least 1949 and asked in writing on October 24, 1949 for spare parts. In 1957 the last known vehicle was scrapped.

motor race

The vehicles were also used in car races, especially mountain tests and reliability drives. Blümmer took third place at the ADAC hill climb in Rießersee , which took place from February 4th to 5th, 1924. A good placement was also achieved at the ADAC winter race two days earlier in Garmisch .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h Willy Kornmayer: The kneeling knight from Hohentwiel. The history of Hildebrand automobiles, none of which probably survived. In: Automobil- und Motorrad-Chronik, issue 4/1976, pp. 18-19.
  2. a b GTÜ Society for Technical Supervision (accessed on March 28, 2015)
  3. ^ A b c Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Hildebrand.
  4. Werner Oswald: German Cars 1920–1945. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-87943-519-7 , p. 447.
  5. Article by Willy Kornmayer on www.hildebrand-automobile.de from April 25, 2013 (accessed on May 13, 2017)