Lindcar car

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Lindcar-Auto AG
legal form Corporation
founding 1920
resolution 1926/1936
Seat Berlin , Germany
management Wilhelm Kulp
Branch Motor vehicle manufacturer

The lindcar Car AG was a German company for the production of automobiles , whose headquarters are in Berlin , was, Mohrenstrasse 57th It was founded in 1920 and manufactured automobiles under the Lindcar brand from 1921 to 1925 , and from 1922 also bicycles. From 1926 onwards, only bicycles were produced under the changed company Lindcar Fahrradwerk AG , and in 1936 the company was dissolved.

Company history

Lindcar-Auto AG share of more than 1,000 marks from October 12, 1922

Lindcar's automobile production began in the Kochstrasse 37 industrial estate in southern Friedrichstadt (later part of the Kreuzberg district). In 1922 the company relocated production to the facilities of the former Lichtenrader Metallwaren-Fabrik GmbH in Berlin-Lichtenrade . Under director Wilhelm Kulp, who previously held a leading position at the Wittenau plant of Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken AG and at the Haselhorst plant of Deutsche Werke AG , Lindcar also began manufacturing bicycles in 1922. The company's purpose has now been described with the manufacture and sale of all types of motor vehicles and bicycles as well as trading in engines and all other relevant automotive articles .

The production of own small car models was stopped in 1925, the company management had the intention of working as an assembly plant and sales organization of a foreign automobile manufacturer. By autumn 1925, however, this reorientation could not be implemented due to "import difficulties". A short time later, the union's own bank for workers, employees and civil servants AG took over the majority of the shares, automobile production was now finally given up and the company continued with the changed company Lindcar Fahrradwerk AG under Director Kulp.

The original majority shareholders of Lindcar-Auto AG, the brothers Carl and Gustav Lindemann, were convicted of fraudulent exchange rate manipulation in 1927.

The dissolution of the trade unions and their own businesses by the National Socialists also deprived Lindcar Fahrradwerk AG of its foundations and the company was dissolved in 1936. It is unclear whether there were no interested parties to take over bicycle production; Instead, the Lichtenrader operating facilities were taken from the Herm. Herdegen acquired.

vehicles

The two- or three-seater roadsters with the boat stern were made of plywood . A company car with a load capacity of 300 kg was also offered. Motors from various manufacturers installed in the front were used to drive the car, with a power rating of 4/14 hp and 5/15 hp. On request, there was a Soden preselection gear from Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen AG , named after the designer Alfred Graf von Soden-Fraunhofen († 1944). Lindcar vehicles took part in the race of the German automobile industry at the AVUS on June 11, 1922 and in the small car race also on the Avus on September 30, 1923, but did not achieve any top positions.

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

literature

  • Handbook of German Stock Companies , 32nd edition 1925, Volume 3, pp. 4860 f.
  • Werner Oswald : German Cars 1920–1945. 10th edition, Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-87943-519-7 , page 449.
  • Matthias Heisig: Engines, bodies, engineers. The mobile Tempelhof. In: District Office Tempelhof of Berlin (Hrsg.): From iron to pralines. The Tempelhof district and its industry. Berlin 2000, pp. 181-184.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magazin der Wirtschaft , No. 7 of February 17, 1927, p. 251.
  2. ^ Vossische Zeitung , No. 274 of June 12, 1922 and No. 264 of October 1, 1923
  3. ^ 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 .