Szawe

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Szawe Automobil- und Karosseriefabrik AG
legal form Corporation
founding 1921
resolution 1924
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat Berlin - Reinickendorf , Germany
management Erich Wechselmann, Karl Szabo, Walter Spitz (Board of Directors)
Branch Motor vehicle manufacturer

Szawe 10/38 hp (1922)

The Szawe automotive and Karosseriefabrik AG was a German company for the production of automobiles in the luxury sector, from 1921 to 1924 in the legal form of a joint stock company with headquarters in Berlin insisted.

Company history

The company was founded by the merchants Karl Szabo , Gerson Wechselmann, Erich Wechselmann, Karl Wechselmann and Friedrich Wilhelm Gendebien. The word mark Szawe emerged as an acronym from the names Sza bo and We chselmann.

The company produced sophisticated bodies on its own in Berlin-Reinickendorf , Spandauer Weg 1/2, which were mounted on the chassis of the C 4 model with a 2536 cm³ four-cylinder engine manufactured by NAG . The artist, designer and engineer Ernst Neumann-Neander designed the first body model . It is unclear who was responsible for the performance-enhancing technical modifications to the NAG engine. The cars were sold as Szawe 10/38 HP .

From autumn 1921, a 2570 cm³ light metal six-cylinder engine designed by Georg Bergmann was used in the 10/50 hp Szawe , the chassis for which came from the Heinrich Ehrhardt AG automobile factory in Zella-Mehlis. This cooperation was apparently quite successful, in 1922/1923 a joint company Ehrhardt-Szawe Automobilwerke existed temporarily .

On August 5, 1924, bankruptcy proceedings were opened for the assets of Szawe Automobil- und Karosseriefabrik AG after board member Erich Wechselmann had taken out several loans to overcome financial difficulties, for each of which he had pledged the same property belonging to the company. After the discovery of this fraudulent practice, the cancellation of the loan and the resulting collapse of the company, Wechselmann committed suicide . Szabo, who, like the third board member Walter Spitz and none of the members of the supervisory board, knew anything about Wechselmann's machinations, is said to have left Germany anyway. As part of the bankruptcy proceedings, production facilities and materials were acquired from the Association of German Automobile Manufacturers (GDA) , a merger of NAG, Hansa-Lloyd and Brennabor .

literature

Web links

Commons : Szawe vehicles  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.gtue-oldtimerservice.de/automobil/marke/SZAWE/850/