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Wartburg 312 Camping (with a body from VEB Karosseriewerk Dresden ) with a Nagetusch caravan
the same caravan with easily recognizable decorative elements

Nagetusch was a body manufacturer for caravans in the GDR .

history

August Richard Nagetusch (born January 17, 1904 in Dresden-Bühlau ; † June 12, 1989 in Wiesbaden ) founded a special company for car body construction in Dresden in 1931 . Until it was destroyed in the Second World War by the bombing on February 13, 1945 , the company was located on the site of the old slaughterhouse on Leipziger Strasse. Then it moved to Kaitz .

At the end of the 1950s, work began on developing a modern caravan to be mass-produced, which was presented at the Leipzig autumn fair in 1958. The "Brillant" model was manufactured under license in the VEB Schiffswerft Rechlin ( Neustrelitz district ) as part of the production of consumer goods in the GDR to increase the number of pieces . On May 13, 1963, the son Manfred Nagetusch, who among other things designed the Nagetusch Diamant, fled with the help of a diplomat in the trunk of a car via the border crossing at Friedrichstrasse ( Checkpoint Charlie ) to West Berlin , and took care of it from there (through middlemen ) to sell the caravans.

Nagetusch sales vehicles were also manufactured under license at the Rosenthal bodywork . In 1970 Richard Nagetusch was arrested in Dresden for political reasons and in 1971 he was ransomed by the FRG. In the course of the last wave of expropriations in the GDR, Nagetusch was nationalized in 1972. The caravan construction was connected to the VEB Karosseriewerk Dresden (KWD). In the Rosenthal branch, some of the sales cars previously manufactured there under a Nagetusch license were converted into caravans (type VK 3.5 M ) and continued to be manufactured until at least 1973 (possibly also sales cars ). The name Nagetusch was no longer used.

From 1973 onwards, the Bastei type caravans were manufactured in the KWD and in this context the production of the Nagetusch successor models was probably discontinued.

Equipment of the caravans

High roof T4 with rodent brush caravan

The caravans were considered very luxurious. They were made of a wooden structure with an aluminum outer skin on a central tubular frame. They had rocker axles and independent suspension with torsion bar suspension and shock absorbers . Most of the trailers were generously glazed with glass and plastic panes. The roofs were initially made of aluminum, later made of plastic . Inside, the caravans were equipped with a wooden structure with cupboards and seating, a gas system for cooking, a 220 V system and one or more beds.

  • Nagetusch diamond

  • Exterior view

  • Interior decoration

  • Rodent brush type 3.5

  • Exterior view

  • Interior decoration

  • View to the front door

  • kitchen

literature

  • Frank Hartwig, Christian Suhr: Nagetusch - residential trailer from Dresden. Verlag Kraftakt, 2018, ISBN 978-3-938426-23-4 .
  • Achim Gaier: Passenger cars in the GDR . Volume 1, Schrader, 2000, p. 141
  • Ralf Pierau: Vacation, Klappfix, Vacation Check: Travel in the GDR . Eulenspiegel-Verlag, 2003, p. 96f

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Katalin Valeš: The other day in the Nagetusch. In: Sächsische Zeitung online. May 25, 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2018 .

Web links

Commons : Nagetusch  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files