Markranstadt automobile factory

Markranstädter Automobil-Fabrik GmbH
legal form	Company with limited liability
founding	1907
resolution	1921
Reason for dissolution	Takeover by Apollo-Werke AG
Seat	Markranstädt , Germany
management	Hugo Ruppe
Branch	Motor vehicle manufacturer

MAF from 1913

MAF from 1914

The Markranstädter Automobilfabrik (MAF) was a German company in Markranstädt that produced automobiles between 1909 and 1923 .

Company history

Hugo Ruppe founded the Markranstädter Automobilfabrik in 1907 , and the passenger cars produced by the company were sold under the MAF brand . In 1911 Ruppe had to file for bankruptcy, but the company was acquired by a group of investors and was able to continue to exist under the technical management of Ruppe. After the outbreak of war in 1914, Ruppe was called up as a soldier and production was interrupted due to the war.

Successor company

Apollo-Werke AG, which emerged from another company of the Ruppe family and has its headquarters in Apolda, took over the company in 1921 and continued operations in Markranstädt as Plant II . Production ended in 1923.

vehicles

The first model was the type D 4/12 PS from 1909 to 1913, whose air-cooled four-cylinder engine from 1192 cm³ produced 12  PS . The type F 5/14 PS followed in 1913 with a capacity of 1375 cm³ and 14 PS and the G 6/16 PS with a capacity of 1620 cm³ and 16 PS.

After the First World War , the previous model F 5/14 PS and the 6/18 PS were produced again as successors to the G 6/16 PS , as well as the 8/25 PS and the large 14/35 PS model , whose four-cylinder engine 35 PS performed.

Existing vehicles

An example of the type F 5/14 PS from 1914 is on display in the Cité de l'Automobile in Mulhouse , France . The city of Markranstädt has two vehicles. A collector in Saxony also has a copy of this car brand and another (type 5/14) in Echternacherbrück .

literature

• Michael Graf Wolff Metternich: Leipziger Allerlei . History of MAF in: Oldtimer Markt , issue 2/2012, p. 48 ff.
• Halwart Schrader : German Cars 1885–1920. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-613-02211-7 .
• Werner Oswald : German Cars 1920–1945. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-87943-519-7 .
• Rainer Küster: GDR on wheels. Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen, ISBN 978-38313-2225-1 .

Web links

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

• GTÜ Society for Technical Monitoring mbH. Retrieved December 22, 2013
• Advertisements for MAF automobiles from 1910 and 1915 (Czech)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ruppe left the company of his grandfather and father A. Ruppe & Sohn in Apolda in 1907, probably due to differences in company policy (see also here )
2. ↑ A rarity on four wheels. In: volksfreund.de. Volksfreund-Druckerei Nikolaus Koch GmbH, July 17, 2011, accessed on May 24, 2012 .