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Kühlstein Wagenbau
legal form
founding 1833
resolution 1926
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Berlin - Charlottenburg , Germany
management
  • Eduard Kühlstein
  • Ernst Kühlstein
  • Max Leuschner
Branch Carriage manufacturers , coachbuilders , automobile manufacturers

Kühlstein electric vehicle at the Berlin Motor Show in September 1897

Kühlstein Wagenbau was a German wheelwright , manufacturer of bodywork and at times also electric vehicles based in Charlottenburg (since 1920 part of Berlin ).

Founded by Eduard Kühlstein (1804–1867) in 1833, the company initially made carriages . After the death of the company founder, the business was continued by his son Ernst Kühlstein (1843–1900). From 1884–1894, Max Leuschner (1856–1923) worked there as operations manager , who built up the company into a well-known wagon construction company with 200 employees.

With an electric car , Kühlstein was alongside Carl Benz , Gottlieb Daimler and Friedrich Lutzmann one of four exhibitors at the first International Motor Show (IAA) in 1897. Complete cars were built until 1902, but this branch was then sold to the Neue Automobil-Gesellschaft (NAG ).

In 1894 Leuschner left the company and took over the wheelwright business Ludwig Rühe , which was founded in 1878 . In 1900 he started building car bodies and two years later the original 10-man company had grown to 150 employees. In 1906 he took over his former employer Kühlstein Wagenbau.

During the First World War , all types of car bodies were produced individually and in small series, for example for Horch . Max Leuschner died in 1923 and his sons took over the business. In 1926, Kühlstein Wagenbau went bankrupt .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Riedel: "Friedrich Lutzmann - A Pioneer of Automobile Construction" . Anhaltische Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Dessau 1999. ISBN 978-3-9101-9261-4
  2. ↑ Thomas Köppen: Mecklenburgisches Carriage Museum in Kobrow. 2015, pp. 41–43.