Karl Deutsch GmbH

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Karl Deutsch GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1916
Seat Cologne , Germany
management Karl German
Branch Body shop

The Karl German GmbH was a Coachbuilder that in Cologne brown field was located.

Company history

Name plate of Karl Deutsch GmbH

In 1913 Karl Deutsch took over the Stellmacherei J. W. Utermöhle GmbH. From 1916 he ran this company under his own name and manufactured trailers for the army.

After the First World War , Deutsch built the first individual bodies on customer request. From 1930 there were small series for convertible models from Horch and the Cologne branch of Citroën . The neighboring Ford plants soon became the most important customers. In 1934, 8 to 10 bodies could be completed per day, four years later it was 30 per day. In addition to the Ford companies in Cologne, the Ford works in the Netherlands were also among the clientele.

After the Second World War , the founder's son, Werner Deutsch , took over the company. Furthermore, Ford was the largest customer; from around the mid-1960s, however, they no longer had any convertibles in their range. Nevertheless, Deutsch still offered convertible conversions on customer request for Ford models (for example Ford P7 ). In addition, the company made a name for itself with convertible conversions for other companies, such as Borgward and - after the closure of the bodybuilder Autenrieth - also Opel .

With the emerging safety debate at the end of the 1960s, the sale of convertibles became increasingly difficult. The laborious manual labor also led to economic difficulties. The body shop was therefore discontinued in 1971. Since then there has only been one property management for the former factory premises.

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