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Röhr Auto AG

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legal form Corporation
founding October 30, 1926
resolution 1935
Reason for dissolution bankruptcy
Seat Ober-Ramstadt , Germany
management
  • Hugo Greffenius
  • Joos Andreas Heintz
Number of employees about 800 (1929)
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Röhr 8 type F, built in 1933
Tube 8 emblem
Röhr Junior from 1933

The Rohr Auto AG was a German automobile manufacturer and was founded in 1926 by Hans Gustav Röhr founded.

Company history

Hans Gustav Röhr founded Röhr Auto AG on October 30, 1926 together with Hugo Greffenius , the main shareholder of MIAG . Together both had a starting capital of around 500,000 Reichsmarks . In the same year the site of the Falcon automobile works in Ober-Ramstadt was taken over. Production of the Röhr 8 began in autumn 1927, followed by the Röhr 8 Type R, which was first presented to the public in Berlin in 1928. The vehicle was an economic success and in the same year an order backlog of 2,200 Röhr cars was achieved. In 1929, Röhr employed around 800 people who produced ten vehicles a day at a price of 8,000 Reichsmarks. In 1930, during the global economic crisis , "Röhr Auto AG" had to file for bankruptcy.

Production stopped at the beginning of 1931. Röhr Auto AG was taken over by the Swiss Röhr general agent Joos Andreas Heintz with the consent of the creditors, Hans Gustav Röhr left the company. Production was resumed in April 1931 under the name Neue Röhr AG. In the spring of 1932, the Röhr Junior was presented as a new model. The Neue Röhr-Werke in Ochsenbruch (today MIAG premises) produced around 1700 Röhr-Junior in the years 1933–1935.

The seizure of power by the National Socialists and their subsequent reprisals against Jewish capital weakened Röhr AG lastingly. In December 1934 bankruptcy had to be filed again. The workshops in Ober-Ramstadt were closed in the spring of 1935. All manufacturing documents and tools were for sale. Stoewer secured the production rights to the Röhr Junior and manufactured it as Stoewer Greif Junior until 1939. The remainder went initially to the Gesellschaft für die Verwertung von Industrieanlagen mbH , which had a few Röhr Fs built until 1936. Finally, Noll-Monnard KG leased the premises of the former repair department and reworked the Röhr F again, but without being able to start production. In the summer of 1937, efforts were finally stopped and the factory was taken over by MIAG .

Products

Type Construction period cylinder Displacement power Vmax
8 (8/40 hp) 1927-1928 8 row 1980 cc 40 hp (29 kW) 90 km / h
8 type R (9/50 hp) 1928-1930 8 row 2246 cc 50 HP (37 kW) 100 km / h
8 type RA (10/55 HP) 1930-1933 8 row 2496 cc 55 HP (40 kW) 100 km / h
8 Type F (13/75 HP) 1933-1934 8 row 3287 cc 75 hp (55 kW) 120 km / h
Junior (6/30 PS) 1933-1935 4 boxers 1485 cc 30 HP (22 kW) 90 km / h
Olympian type FK (13/75/100 HP) 1934 8 row 3287 cc 75-100 hp (55-74 kW) 135 km / h

New registrations of Röhr cars in the German Reich from 1933 to 1938

year Registration numbers
1933 772
1934 1122
1935 51
1936 16
1937 9
1938 8th

Source:

literature

  • Market for classic automobiles and motorcycles . October 1985.
  • The Röhr-Junior: The Tatra license from the Hessian Odenwald . In: Club Info 2/96.
  • Werner Schollenberger: Röhr: A chapter of German automobile history , Preuss, Darmstadt 1996, ISBN 3-928746-04-9 .
  • Werner Schollenberger: Röhr: Security itself , August-Horch-Museum Zwickau (ed.), Zschiesche GmbH, Wilkau-Haßlau 2012, 96 pages

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miriam Gartlgruber: The rise and fall of Röhr Auto AG . In: Darmstädter Echo . February 8, 2017, p. 17 .
  2. ^ Röhr-Werk: The Ober-Ramstädter Economic Trial against Arthur Delfosse and Dr. Heinrichs . In: Odenwälder Nachrichten of June 15, 17, 19, 22, 24 and July 6, 10, 15, 17, 29, 1937.
  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. 328 .