Hotzenblitz Mobile

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Hotzenblitz Mobile GmbH & Co. KG
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding April 12, 1991
resolution 1996
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Ibach , Germany
management Thomas Albiez
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Hotzenblitz "Buggy" in the last stage of development with ABS body

The Hotzenblitz Mobile GmbH & Co. KG was a German manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

Thomas Albiez, Rainer Schmid, Thomas Schwarz and Peter Zumkeller founded in the April 13, 1988 Ibach the Hotzenblitz Mobile GmbH to develop a small electric cars . In 1990 the first prototype was presented to the press as EL SPORT .

Thomas Albiez contributed parts of his private fortune. Alfred Theodor Ritter supported the development financially. On April 12, 1991, Hotzenblitz Mobile GmbH & Co. KG was founded in the same location. Production began in 1993 in the former Simson factory in Suhl . The state of Thuringia supported the development with guarantees of eight million DM. The brand name was Hotzenblitz . Production ended in 1996. A total of around 150 vehicles were built.

After the bankruptcy, a German group of investors acquired the rights to the Hotzenblitz at the end of 1996 with the aim of continuing production.

In 1998, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia tried to restart production in Duisburg . A Euroimpuls BeteiligungsAG should collect money from private investors. Thomas Albiez should only be responsible for the technical development of the project.

After the failure of these efforts, Thomas Albiez emigrated to Austria and founded in Villach the Meeting Point Future GmbH and other companies that promote the goal of producing an advanced Hotzenblitz and are looking for private investors. He has been listed on XING as managing director since 01/1999. In 2011, at the “the electric avenue” trade fair in Friedrichshafen, Linning Kendrion presented an improved drive in a Hotzenblitz with an ABS body in the presence of Thomas Albiez.

In 2016, the TZ - MPF Arbeitsgemeinschaft GeoPart GmbH & Co KG registered at the Traunstein District Court, HRA 11299, is named as the operator in the imprint of the former company Meeting Point Future . The company's operations and production will be financed by crowdfunding from private investors. The TZ - production Albiez KG , on the website of the previous website future meeting point is passed, TE Albiez faces as managing director. According to its own account, this company offers not only consulting services and electric scooters via an internet platform but also hot flashes. Some of the images of the sales advertisements come from the Wikipedia image archive without the required source information. There is no evidence of actual production of new vehicles since 1996.

vehicles

The only model was the Hotzenblitz . This was a small electric car in several versions:

  • Hotzenblitz buggy with fabric doors
  • Hotzenblitz City with fixed doors
  • optionally with hardtop, large soft top and / or two additional emergency seats with folding backrests in the rear

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G – O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ A b Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.
  3. ↑ Ralf Wagner: Hotzenblitz: The first press presentation , www.elweb.info Internet portal, accessed on April 6, 2016
  4. ^ A b New chance for the “Hotzenblitz” , Die Welt, September 9, 1998, accessed on April 6, 2016
  5. ↑ Rights to “Hotzenblitz” cars sold , Berliner Zeitung, December 13, 1996, accessed April 6, 2016
  6. ↑ Thomas Albiez, berufliche Laufbahn , XING, accessed April 6, 2016
  7. ↑ Potzblitz, here comes the Hotzenblitz , SüdKurier, June 3, 2011, accessed on April 6, 2016
  8. ^ Company profile , TZ / MPF Arbeitsgemeinschaft, accessed on April 6, 2016
  9. ↑ Hotzenblitz e-mobile sales advertisement with product image from WP archive  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Spock sales platform, offer from January 23, 2016, accessed April 6, 2016@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.shpock.com