Rhenania engine factory

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Rhenania Motorenfabrik AG
legal form Corporation
founding 1917
resolution 1930
Reason for dissolution Insolvency and takeover by Riebe-Werke AG
Seat Mannheim and from 1920 Berlin , Germany
management around 1925 Kurt Hiehle (board member)
Branch Engine construction , vehicle manufacturer

The Rhenania engine factory AG , abbreviated to the acronym Rhemag was a 1917 founded and until 1930 existing companies in the area of engine and motor vehicle whose seat first in Mannheim , from 1920 in Berlin was.

Company history

Due to the war, the company was founded in May 1917 specifically for the manufacture of the aircraft engine type " Siemens & Halske Sh.III ". When it was founded by entrepreneurs Richard Kahn and Alfred Eversbusch , the share capital was 1 million marks . When Eversbusch left in the year it was founded, Kahn became the sole owner of the company, which incorporated it into his group . With the ban on aviation after the war, people turned to civilian products. The headquarters were relocated to Berlin, Hohenzollernstrasse 20 in the Tiergarten district in 1920. In the course of high inflation , the share capital was increased to 30 million marks in December 1922 and, after the currency stabilized in 1924, it was converted to 1 million Reichsmark .

The company's executive board was Kurt Hiehle around 1925 ; the supervisory board at that time included Richard Kahn, attorney Martin Katzenstein , Alfons Brunn , Alfred Popp and Wilhelm Limberg (all based in Berlin).

Around 1930 the company went bankrupt and was taken over by Riebe-Werke AG (now SKF ).

production

Aircraft engines

In the founding year, an order for 1000 motors of the type "Siemens & Halske Sh.III" was placed. Good experiences with the manufacturing quality meant that the company soon received a manufacturing order for the “ Oberursel UR.II” engine . Test pilot was Richard Dietrich , who worked there until the end of the war.

Motor vehicles

In 1924, at the International Motor Show in Berlin, the company presented its own two to four-seater sports car with a four-cylinder engine with a displacement of 1100 cm³ and 24 hp under the brand name "Rhemag" . In the French magazine La Vie Automobile on February 10, 1925, the car was described as a four-cylinder with a light alloy engine and 1000 cm³ displacement ( bore / stroke = 62/86 mm). The performance was positively recognized, 100 km / h speed could be reached after 400 to 500 meters. In the spring of 1925 it was said about the company: "In the course of 1925 the company intends to start building passenger cars." It is uncertain whether the car would actually go into series production. No existing vehicle of the brand is currently known.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Aviation by Oskar Ursinus - Complete year 1917 as digital full text | Aviation Aviation Aviation Aviation Air Force. Retrieved August 29, 2019 .
  2. ^ Handbook of German Stock Companies , 30th edition 1925, Volume 1, p. 697.