Stoewer

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Stoewer-Werke AG, formerly Gebr. Stoewer

logo
legal form Corporation
founding 1858
resolution 1945
Reason for dissolution World War II as well as dismantling and moving the plant to the USSR
Seat Szczecin
management
Branch Sewing machine manufacturer , bicycle manufacturer , typewriter manufacturer , automobile manufacturer

Stoewer from 1910
Stoewer-Werke AG shares for RM 100 on October 25, 1932
Stoewer Greif Junior from 1936
Stoewer Sedina Cabriolet 1937–1940
Hood ornament Stoewer Sedina 1937–1940

Stoewer was a company based in Szczecin from 1858 to 1945 . It became known primarily as a car and bicycle manufacturer.

Company history

The company was founded in 1858 by Bernhard Stoewer as a precision mechanical repair workshop. In the same year the production of sewing machines began.

From 1893 the production of bicycles and from 1903 also the production of typewriters started.

In 1896 the Stettiner Eisenwerk Bernhard Stoewer sen. Spin-off, which supplied the parent company with parts for the bicycle production and also started with the production of cast furnaces. At the same time, the main factory was converted into a stock corporation under the name of sewing machines and bicycles factory Bernhard Stoewer . From 1898 motor tricycles with a front single wheel based on the De Dion Bouton motor tricycle were created .

In 1899 the ironworks was taken over by the sons (Bernhard Stoewer jun. And Emil Stoewer) and renamed the Stoewer Brothers, Factory for Motor Vehicles . In the same year, the first model to be presented was the large Stoewer motor vehicle. Stoewer is thus one of the pioneers in car manufacturing in Germany.

The transformation into the stock corporation Stoewer-Werke AG, formerly Gebr. Stoewer , took place in 1916. From 1917 to 1926 Stoewer also built tractors . From 1926 Fritz Fiedler worked for the company and in 1927 presented his first model, the jointly with Bernhard Stoewer jun. developed the F 6 (6/30 hp) with a 1.6-liter four-cylinder engine. At the end of 1929, Stoewer's chief designer Fiedler first went to Horch in Zwickau and then moved to the BMW plant in Eisenach in mid-1932 .

In 1925, with financial support from the Stoewer brothers, the Stettin-Westend urban cycle track was built in the Eckerberg Forest in Stettin-Westend (since 1945 Łękno ). It still exists today, since 1988 it has been called the Zbysław Zając Velodrome .

In the 1920s, the company made a name for itself as a small-series manufacturer of high-quality, sporty luxury cars that competed on an equal footing with Horch and Mercedes . The S 8 (8/45 hp) with a 45 hp eight-cylinder in - line engine and rear-wheel drive was a solid offering in its class in 1928, followed by the G 15 Gigant (15/80 hp) with an 80 hp eight-cylinder engine, which ran until 1933 remained in production. The top model was the P 20 representative (20/100 hp) with a 100 hp eight-cylinder, of which only 24 vehicles were built between 1930 and 1933. Stoewer never tried to compete in the mass market, and the solid financial base made it the great dying of the automakers in the world economic crisis to survive.

Stoewer V 5 , 1932
Arkona Cabriolet, 1939
Stoewer Arkona Limousine, built in 1940

In 1930 Stoewer began developing its first small car with front-wheel drive . The Stoewer V 5 with four-cylinder - V engine (1.2 liters, 25 hp) was in the same year completed the test. From January 1931, 2100 cars were built in series until 1932. Of the successor Stoewer R 140 with a 1.4 liter in- line engine (30 hp), 2310 vehicles left the factory in Stettin. This was followed by the increasingly larger medium-sized R 150 (1.5 liter, 35 hp, 1934) and R 180 (1.8 liter, 45 hp, 1935) and in 1934 the Stoewer Greif V8 with a 2.5 liter eight-cylinder V-engine and 57 hp. All cars were front-wheel drive.

The later models again had conventional rear-wheel drive : Greif Junior (1.5-liter four-cylinder, 1935), Sedina (2.4-liter four-cylinder, 1937) and, as the successor to the Greif V8 from Arkona (3.6-liter Six-cylinder, 1937).

From the mid-1930s, the Szczecin company was involved in the centrally controlled arms production as part of the armament of the Wehrmacht . The light standard car (LEPKW) with all-wheel drive developed by Stoewer and manufactured there from 1936 to 1943 became the most popular Stoewer vehicle with 11,000 vehicles. As a license- it also presented the BMW plant in Eisenach as a BMW 325 and Hanomag in Hanover (20 Hanomag B) ago.

By order of the NS - Government of Stoewer- 1937 aircraft engine EnBau in the subsidiary Pomeranian engine GmbH in Arnimswalde (now Załom outsourced, Poland). In 1941 built Stoewer chassis of Panzerkampfwagen I to Flakpanzer I order. From 1943 the Stettin factory built the NSU - Kettenkrad under license .

After the end of the war, Szczecin fell to Poland and the company's history ended. The factory facilities were dismantled and taken to the USSR . The only surviving example of the large motor vehicle is in the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow.

Another museum was located in Wald-Michelbach . His collection was sold to the Museum of Technology and Communication in Szczecin (Muzeum Techniki i Komunikacji) in 2019 .

Bicycle production

  • Advertisements in the Norddeutsche Radsport-Zeitung , 1900/01: Stoewer's Greif are impeccably built.
  • The Stoewer company was founded in Stettin in 1858. (...) From 1893 he began to manufacture bicycles himself.

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

year Registration numbers
1933 1611
1934 1452
1935 1137
1936 1024
1937 913
1938 1111

Source:

Car models

Type Construction period cylinder Displacement power Vmax
10 hp 1901-1902 2 row 1527 cc 18 hp (13.2 kW) 50 km / h
8/14 hp 1902-1905 2 row 1527 cc 14 hp (10.3 kW) 50 km / h
20 hp 1904-1905 4 row 7946 cc 45 hp (33 kW) 85 km / h
P4 (11/22 HP) 1905-1910 4 row 3054 cc 22 hp (16.2 kW) 70 km / h
P2 (9/12 HP) 1906-1907 2 row 2281 cc 16 hp (11.8 kW) 55 km / h
P4-1 (24/36 hp) 1906-1910 4 row 5880 cc 40 hp (29 kW) 80 km / h
P6 (34/60 hp) 1906-1911 6 row 8820 cc 60 hp (44 kW) 95 km / h
G4 (6/12 HP) 1907-1911 4 row 1500 cc 12 HP (8.8 kW) 60 km / h
PK4 (11/20 HP) 1909-1912 4 row 2544 cc 20 hp (14.7 kW) 70 km / h
C1 (6/18 hp) 1909-1915 4 row 1546 cc 18 hp (13.2 kW) 70 km / h
B1 (6/16 HP) 1910-1912 4 row 1556 cc 16 hp (11.8 kW) 65 km / h
B6 (9/22 HP) 1912-1914 4 row 4900 cc 45 hp (33 kW) 95 km / h
C2 (10/28 hp) 1913-1914 4 row 2412 cc 28 hp (20.6 kW) 75 km / h
C5 (6/18 hp) 1915-1919 4 row 1546 cc 15 HP (11 kW) 70 km / h
D2 (6/18 hp) 1919-1920 4 row 1593 cc 18 hp (13.2 kW) 70 km / h
D6 (19/55 hp) 1919-1921 6 row 4960 cc 55 HP (40 kW) 100 km / h
D7 (42/120 hp) 1919-1921 6 row 11,160 cc 120 hp (88 kW) 160 km / h
D3 (8/24 HP) 1920-1923 4 row 2120 cc 24 hp (17.6 kW) 70 km / h
D5 (12/36 hp) 1920-1923 6 row 3107 cc 36 hp (26.5 kW) 80 km / h
D9 (8/32 hp) 1923-1924 4 row 2290 cc 32 HP (23.5 kW) 90 km / h
D12 (12/45 HP) 1923-1924 6 row 3107 cc 45 hp (33 kW) 100 km / h
D10 (10/50 hp) 1924-1925 4 row 2580 cc 50 HP (37 kW) 120 km / h
D9V (9/32 HP) 1925-1927 4 row 2290 cc 32 HP (23.5 kW) 90 km / h
D12V (13/55 HP) 1925-1928 6 row 3386 cc 55 HP (40 kW) 100 km / h
F6 (6/30 hp) 1927-1928 4 row 1570 cc 30 HP (22 kW) 70 km / h
8 Type S 8 (8/45 HP) 1928 8 row 1999 cc 45 hp (33 kW) 85 km / h
8 Type G 14 (14/70 HP) 1928 8 row 3633 cc 70 hp (51 kW) 100 km / h
8 Type S 10 (10/50 HP) 1928-1930 8 row 2464 cc 50 HP (37 kW) 90 km / h
Gigant G 15 K (15/80 HP) 1928-1933 8 row 3974 cc 80 hp (59 kW) 110 km / h
Gigant G 15 (15/80 hp) 1928-1933 8 row 3974 cc 80 hp (59 kW) 100 km / h
Representative P 20 (20/100 PS) 1930-1933 8 row 4906 cc 100 hp (74 kW) 120 km / h
Marshal M 12 (12/60 HP) 1930-1934 8 row 2963 cc 60 hp (44 kW) 90 km / h
V 5 1931-1932 4 V 1168 cc 25 hp (18.4 kW) 80 km / h
V 5 sport 1931-1932 4 V 1168 cc 30 HP (22 kW) 100 km / h
R 140 1932-1933 4 row 1355 cc 30 HP (22 kW) 85-105 km / h
R 140 1933-1934 4 row 1466 cc 30 HP (22 kW) 85-105 km / h
R 150 1934-1935 4 row 1466 cc 35 hp (25.7 kW) 90-110 km / h
Griffin V8 1934-1937 8 V 2489 cc 55 HP (40 kW) 110 km / h
R 180 1935 4 row 1769 cc 45 hp (33 kW) 105 km / h
Griffin V8 Sport 1935-1937 8 V 2489 cc 57 hp (42 kW) 120 km / h
Griffin junior 1936-1939 4 boxers 1484 cc 34 hp (25 kW) 100 km / h
Sedina 1937-1940 4 row 2406 cc 55 HP (40 kW) 110 km / h
Arkona 1937-1940 6 row 3610 cc 80 hp (59 kW) 120-140 km / h

literature

  • Anniversary commemoration of AG Bernh: Steower Stettin: 1858–1908 , in: German industry, German culture; Vol. 6 (1908), No. 2. Catalog of the SLUB Dresden .
  • Gerhard Maerz: The history of the Stoewer automobiles . Kohlhammer Edition, Stuttgart et al. 1983, ISBN 3-17-007931-X .
  • Paul Keienburg: Pioneer from Pomerania: Stoewer V5. Germany's first series front-wheel drive . In: Oldtimer Markt 14, 2006, 8, ISSN  0943-7320 , pp. 156-163.
  • Halwart Schrader : German cars . Volume 1: 1885-1920 . Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-613-02211-7 .
  • Werner Oswald : German cars . Volume 2: 1920-1945 . 2nd edition. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-613-02170-6 .
  • Pawel Migdalski, Udział samochodów z fabryki Stoewera w zawodach sportowych. Przyczynek do historii sportu samochodowego na Pomorzu w latach 1919–1939 . [The cars from the Stoewer factory in the sports competitions. A contribution to the history of motor racing in Pomerania in the years 1919–1939]. In: Przegląd Zachodniopomorski 17, 2002, 2, ISSN  0552-4245 , pp. 39-60.
  • Erwin Rosenthal : "Stoewer": Pommerscher Greif stood for a very classy car brand . In: Pomerania. Journal of Culture and History. 57th vol., H. 4, 2019, pp. 45-47.

only available in the Stoewer Museum:

  • Hans Mai: Stoewer Automobile. 1896-1945. From single-cylinder to eight-cylinder . Preuss, Darmstadt 1999, ISBN 3-928746-07-3 .
  • Hans Falkenberg: Stoewer Automobile from Pomerania. Life story, successes and problems of an East German industrial company . Illustrated with old postcards and photographs. Self-published, Kiel 1986, ( Stettiner Schriften 1, ZDB -ID 2169386-9 ), (only available from the Stoewer Museum Wald-Michelbach and Haus Stettin in Lübeck).

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.gtue-oldtimerservice.de/automobil/marke/STOEWER/838/
  2. ^ A b Advertisement regularly from July 1900 in: Norddeutsche Radsport-Zeitung, 1900/1901
  3. ↑ Michael Wolff Metternich : 100 years on 3 wheels. German three-lane vehicles through the ages. Neue Kunst Verlag, Munich, ISBN 3-929956-00-4 , pp. 336–337.
  4. ^ Marek Luczak: Szczecin Pogodno Łękno . Zapol Spółka jawna, Szczecin 2009, ISBN 978-83-7518-176-0 , p. 111 (Polish, German).
  5. ↑ www.architekten-portrait.de - Godber Nissen
  6. ↑ http://muzeumtechniki.eu/wydarzenia/1/szczecin-kupuje-muzeum-stoewera-w-wald-michelbach/
  7. ↑ www.fahrradmonteur.de/Stoewer_Greif
  8. ^ 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 .