Mannesmann Automobile Plant

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Mannesmann Automobilwerk KG
Mannesmann Automobilwerk AG
legal form Corporation
founding 1919 (as Mannesmann Motorenwerke GmbH )
resolution 1929
Seat Remscheid , Germany
management
Branch Motor vehicle manufacturer

The Mannesmann automotive KG was founded in 1919 by brothers Alfred (1859-1944), Carl (1861 to 1950) and Reinhard Mannesmann (1856-1922) in Remscheid as Mannesmann Motor Werke GmbH founded. They manufactured high-end luxury cars and for racing purposes and marketed themselves with the slogan: "If you buy a car, choose a man" and "If you want to compete with the man man, you will soon see your exhaust".

At the same time, Carl Mannesmann and his brother Max (1857–1915) had been running the Mannesmann-MULAG automotive company in Aachen since 1910 , but which had specialized in the development of trucks and buses.

history

The Mannesmann Motor Werke GmbH emerged from the Mannesmann light Werke AG , which before the First World War produced with about 4,000 employees gas and Hängeglühlichter and acted as director with about 2,000 employees as arms and munitions factory during the war under Carl Mannesmann. After the war, the production of freezers and motorized plows began, but the company soon switched to repairing trucks damaged during the war and converting them for civilian use. Soon afterwards, the brothers also dealt with the development of automobiles and operated as Mannesmann Motorenwerke GmbH from 1919 . The Remscheid plant was finally renamed Mannesmann Automobil-Werk KG in 1923 and manufactured four-cylinder, lower- middle-class passenger cars. Around 2000 vehicles were built here by 1928.

The reliability of the vehicles was proven by crossing the Alps without damage on hot days. In addition, converted vehicles also took part in the Eifel race near Nideggen, where they won the German Tourist Trophy in 1925, 1926 and 1927 .

1928 from Mannesmann automotive KG the Mannesmann automotive Werke AG and Mannesmann AG automotive plant . From 1928 the company shifted to the production of eight-cylinder luxury vehicles. After just one year and around 200 copies, the company was insolvent in August 1929. A second source confirms that payments ceased in August 1929. The share capital of 600,000 Reichsmarks, which was owned by the Mannesmann family, was lost. In September 1929 the settlement procedure was confirmed by the Remscheid District Court . The last model, the Type 8 Mb Model 100, had a Rickenbacker engine supplied by DKW .

In 1930, a few vehicles were built from existing individual parts in the Mannesmann-Automobil- und Spare Parts Company . They had eight-cylinder engines and Karmann bodies . On April 28, 1930, this company applied for the liquidation.

Car models

Type Construction period cylinder Displacement power Vmax
Type WI (4/16 PS) 1923-1924 4 row 1289 cc 16 hp (11.8 kW)
Type W II (5/20 PS) 1923-1927 4 row 1305 cc 20 hp (14.7 kW) 75 km / h
Type M (5/25 HP) 1927-1928 4 row 1305 cc 25 hp (18.4 kW) 80 km / h
Type 8 M (model 60) 1928-1929 8 row 2343 cc 55 HP (40 kW) 100 km / h
Type 8 Ma (model 70 Sport) 1929 8 row 2418 cc 70 hp (51 kW) 120 km / h
Type 8 Mb (model 100) 1929 8 row 5210 cc 100 hp (74 kW) 110 km / h

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Vehicle registration document from the Mannesmann Automobile Plant (accessed on March 21, 2020)
  2. ^ A b Hans Jürgen Roth: History of our city, Remscheid with Lennep and Lüttringhausen. RGA-Buchverlag, Remscheid 2009, ISBN 978-3-940491-01-5 , p. 126.
  3. ^ A b c d e f 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. 163 .
  4. ↑ German Digital Library (accessed on March 21, 2020)
  5. ^ 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. 177 .