Schauff (company)

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Bicycle factory Schauff GmbH & Ko KG

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legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1932
Seat Remagen , Germany (since 1940) GermanyGermany 
management Ute Schauff
Branch Bicycle manufacturer
Website www.schauff.de

The bicycle factory Schauff is a German two-wheeler manufacturer from Remagen .

Company history

Schauff racing bike from the 1990s

The bicycle factory Schauff was Hans Schauff and Barbara Schauff in 1932 in Cologne-Ehrenfeld , near the Six-Day - racetrack Rheinlandhalle founded as a factory for racing frame. Due to the bombing raids during the Second World War and the associated damage, which led to impairment in the production and trade in bicycles, the company moved to Remagen in 1940.

With the end of the war in 1945 and after the currency reform in 1948, the manufacture and sale of bicycles was continued, along with the construction of a new factory building in Bergstrasse in Remagen. The factory outlet in Cologne until then was closed in 1949.

In 1968, production was relocated to the industrial area of ​​Remagen, where a Deutsche Bahn siding made it possible to expand the company's logistics area. Furthermore, due to the steadily increasing demand for bicycles, the production facilities were successively expanded by three buildings, in which up to 700 bicycles were produced per day during times of maximum utilization.

Towards the end of 2004, Schauff was forced to stop production and lay off the employees who were still employed in the company. Today, after the switch from large series production to small series production, Schauff manufactures models individually tailored to the needs of the bicycle market.

Sponsorship

High-speed tandem from Schauff from 1979

Since the company was founded, Schauff has been committed to cycling by equipping racing cyclists and cycling teams with their bikes. They managed to achieve various successes over time. Schauff also supported various trends logistically, for example through the necessary infrastructure in the form of a BMX track made available. In the 1990s, Schauff was the main sponsor of the Schauff Öschelbronn professional cycling team , later the UCI ProTeam Gerolsteiner , as well as outfitter for national teams of the Association of German Cyclists in various years.

On a Schauff tandem , French racing driver Jean-Claude Rude set a new speed record of 145 kilometers per hour in 1979 . Together with the blind driver Etienne Chapaz, he reached this speed on a motorway in Alsace in the slipstream of a motorcycle.

Product history

Designed by Colani in 1982 for Schauff

In its long history, Schauff has manufactured a wide variety of two-wheelers. In the beginning these were track and racing bikes , supplemented by sports frames . During the years of the economic miracle , Schauff expanded its range to include everyday bikes, some of which were exported to the Middle East , as well as mopeds and motorcycles powered by 98 and 125 cc Sachs engines. In addition to this, touring sports bikes were sold under the “Vitali” brand.

With the end of the "bicycle lull" in the 1960s, more bicycle models found their way into the company's product catalog. These included folding bicycles , which were delivered to Kaufhof department stores, among others , as well as bonanza bicycles and tandems that were sold worldwide.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Schauff added bicycles to its range that had emerged from trend sports in the USA. The company delivered the first BMX bikes in Germany and in 1981 introduced the first mountain bike called “Landcruiser” in Europe.

In 1982 the designer Luigi Colani designed the prototype of a ladies bicycle for Schauff with aerodynamic fairing of handlebars, frame and rear wheel. In addition to the streamlined shape with the headlights incorporated into the handlebar trim, practical details such as a glove compartment and a child seat integrated into the rear wheel trim were provided. The bicycle should have indicators on the left and right of the handlebars, although they were not permitted at the time and are currently (as of 2019) only permitted if a panel covers hand signals (Section 67 Paragraphs 3 and 4 StVZO). The Colani bicycle did not go into series production because around half a million D-Marks would have had to be invested in the molds for manufacturing the fairings and the bicycles, which at that time generally cost 150 to 200 D-Marks, around 80 D-Marks would have made more expensive. However, the prototype has stood the test of time.

Two bikes from Schauff belonged to the collection of the Viennese architect and designer Michael Embacher , which was auctioned at Dorotheum in 2015 . The development of Schauff Aero was made in the wind tunnel of Mercedes-Benz , and the tests resulted in a wheel whose arm was integrated into the fork. Fredy Schmidtke , vice world champion 1982 in the 1000 meter time trial , rode a similar Schauff bike or (maybe) even the bike from the Embacher collection . The second display in the Embacher Collection was a Wall Street from 1993.

As a result of the restructuring of the company that has become necessary, Schauff now specializes in sports and trekking bikes as well as city and e-bikes, which are produced in small series or available as custom-made products.

  • Steering head shield

  • B36 moped, early 1950s

  • 1952 motorcycle

  • Moped with Sachs built -in engine (98 cm³) in the Remagen factory museum

  • Vitali moped by Schauff at IFMA 1966

Product awards

Schauff received the Red Dot Design Award from the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen e. V. In particular, it was awarded for the city “Bike La Luna” in 1996, for the tandem “Wall Street Duo” and the “Light Rider Companero Classic” in 1995 and for the bicycle “Wall Street” in 1992, which received international attention because of its design found.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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  7. ↑ 1979- Schauff tandem ridden to world record by Jean-Claude Rude. In: classicrendezvous.com. Retrieved February 14, 2016 .
  8. ^ Hans Schauff Fahrradfabrik Remagen: Schauff Vitali 1960c catalog. In: Classic Rendezvous. 1960, accessed February 19, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Bicycle factory Hans Schauff: Bonanzarad Museum. In: Bicycle factory Hans Schauff. Retrieved February 19, 2016 .
  10. ↑ General Anzeiger: Success began with Bonanza wheels. In: General Anzeiger. July 25, 2004, accessed February 19, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Schauff: The bicycle pioneer. (No longer available online.) In: Börse am Sonntag. 2011, archived from the original on February 13, 2016 ; accessed on February 14, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.boerse-am-sonntag.de
  12. ↑ Bicycle factory Hans Schauff: BMX Museum. In: Bicycle factory Hans Schauff. Retrieved February 19, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Bicycle factory Hans Schauff: MTB Museum. In: Bicycle factory Hans Schauff. Retrieved February 19, 2016 .
  14. ↑ 30 years of history: 1979–1982. In: Mountain Bike. 2003, accessed February 13, 2016 .
  15. ^ Christian Koniecki: Colani's streamlines roll to Remagen. In: Rhein-Zeitung No. 217 of September 18, 2019, issue B0, Koblenz, p. 27.
  16. ↑ Mirjam Hecking: The Embacher Collection is for sale - manager magazin. In: manager-magazin.de. May 12, 2015, accessed March 29, 2016 .
  17. ↑ Embacher / Collection - SCHAUFF Aero. (No longer available online.) In: embacher-collection.at. Archived from the original on March 29, 2016 ; accessed on March 29, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.embacher-collection.at
  18. ↑ Embacher / Collection - SCHAUFF Wall Street. (No longer available online.) In: embacher-collection.at. Archived from the original on March 29, 2016 ; accessed on March 29, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.embacher-collection.at
  19. ↑ Peter Zec (Ed.): Who's Who in German Design. red dot edition Design Center North Rhine Westphalia, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-929227-50-9 , pp. 188-189.
  20. ^ Dorotheum: Schauff / Wall Street. In: Dorotheum. Accessed February 21, 2016 (English).
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