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Master of the rings celebrates
One century turbulent and hopeful vehicle history presents AUDI under the title “meeting of the generations - to efficiency in the change of the time” in the AUDI forum Ingolstadt.
The car manufacturer AUDI celebrates in this year its 100. Birthday. In the context of this anniversary are planned a set of meetings. The prelude the special exhibition “meeting of the generations makes - for efficiency in the change of the time”, which will have to be seen mobile in the AUDI forum Ingolstadt from 26 January to 28 February 2009 in the AUDI museum. Twelve special automobiles from eight decades company history are shown there.
From Horch AUDI becomes
The AUDI AG looks on a moved history back. At the beginning stands August Horch, a graduate of the technical school in the Saxonian Mittweida, the 1899 made myself independent and on 14 November of the same yearly in Cologne the Horch & Cie. Engine car of works based. 1902 came Horch to Saxonia, where the company was converted in the year 1904 into Zwickau into a corporation. After differences with the executive committee and the supervisory board Horch left 1909 the enterprise. Soon after it created a second automobile company in Zwickau. Since its name was already assigned, it selected latin translation of its own name as new label name: Out “horch!” became “AUDI!”. In December 1914 the transformation the AUDI of automobile works GmbH took place into a corporation.
First left-guided vehicle
1921 surprised the AUDI works AG the professional world with the new AUDI 14/50 HP type K, the first left-steered car in Germany. 1923 followed the type M with a six cylinder engine and four years later with the AUDI Imperator the first AUDI eight-cylinder car were introduced. In August 1928 Jörgen Skafte Rasmussen, Besitzer of the Zschopauer Motorenwerke/DKW transferred, the stock majority of the AUDI works AG and integrated the enterprise in the year after in its Firmenimperium. With the beginning of the world economic crisis in October 1929 a substantial break-down of the sales figures took place from large car models with six and eight cylinder engines. Rasmussen let thereupon with AUDI a small DKW car with front wheel drive to develop, which came 1931 with large success on the market.
The four rings
On 29 June 1932 united the AUDI works, the Horchwerke and the Zschopauer Motorenwerke/DKW to car the union AG with seat in Chemnitz. At the same time with the rambler works a purchase and a lease were locked for the assumption of the ramblers automobile department. Symbol of this union were the “four rings”. Within the young mark the AUDI front type UW, an automobile of the middle class developed, with which the new company could use the synergies for the first time. Most important characteristic of the new AUDI was the front wheel drive. The car went finally in the spring 1933 into series. With the outbreak of the Second World War the production of civil vehicles was nearly completely gone back and the company was changed over to arms production. In April 1940 the last AUDI came off the line.
Restart in Ingolstadt
After completion of the Second World War the car union AG lain in the Soviet zone of occupation was expropriated, the manufacturing plants was dismantled and the enterprise 1948 from the Register of Companies of the city Chemnitz was deleted. Prominent coworkers had already gone with end of war to Bavaria, where at the end of of 1945 in Ingolstadt was furnished first a depot for car union of spare parts. From this germ cell a new society on 3 September 1949 with the cars union GmbH, which continued the motor vehicle tradition of the four rings, developed. On the export fair in Hanover in the spring 1949 the DKW F 89 L high-speed vice and the motorcycle DKW blank 125 W were presented. These justified the automotive industry in Ingolstadt.
The rebirth of the AUDI brand
Center of the 1960er-Jahre appeared the first autounion model with four-cylinder four-stroke engine. The cars union “type AUDI”, first without further model designation, and a full success was applied intensively. The series became, with some technical and optical modifications, until 1972 produce. But also in other regard a new era began in Ingolstadt. Since 1965 the Ingolstädter enterprise belongs to the Volkswagen company. Its own vehicle development was forbidden to the Ingolstädter technicians by the new heads of the household, but Ludwig Kraus, development boss at that time, manufactured in secret a new model. In November 1968 the AUDI 100 in Ingolstadt of the international press was introduced. With this car developed the first vehicle, which was free from the DKW estate.
Projection/lead by technology
Under direction that Volkswagenwerk AG came it 1969 to the fusion between the cars union GmbH and into Neckarsulm the residents NSU of engine works AG. The new enterprise now carried the designation AUDI NSU car union AG and had its seat in Neckarsulm. The extensive pallet of AUDI and NSU models with different engines and propulsion principles led 1971 to a new, still valid advertising slogan: “Projection/lead by technology”. In this sense 1972 appeared the AUDI 80 of the first generation (series B1). Up to the production end of the first generation over one million copies were manufactured by it. 1985 took place then renaming the enterprise from AUDI NSU car union AG in AUDI AG. The enterprise and the products since then carry the same name. The company headquarters was back-shifted to Ingolstadt.
One century turbulent and hopeful vehicle history presents AUDI under the title “meeting of the generations - to efficiency in the change of the time” in the AUDI forum Ingolstadt.
The car manufacturer AUDI celebrates in this year its 100. Birthday. In the context of this anniversary are planned a set of meetings. The prelude the special exhibition “meeting of the generations makes - for efficiency in the change of the time”, which will have to be seen mobile in the AUDI forum Ingolstadt from 26 January to 28 February 2009 in the AUDI museum. Twelve special automobiles from eight decades company history are shown there.
From Horch AUDI becomes
The AUDI AG looks on a moved history back. At the beginning stands August Horch, a graduate of the technical school in the Saxonian Mittweida, the 1899 made myself independent and on 14 November of the same yearly in Cologne the Horch & Cie. Engine car of works based. 1902 came Horch to Saxonia, where the company was converted in the year 1904 into Zwickau into a corporation. After differences with the executive committee and the supervisory board Horch left 1909 the enterprise. Soon after it created a second automobile company in Zwickau. Since its name was already assigned, it selected latin translation of its own name as new label name: Out “horch!” became “AUDI!”. In December 1914 the transformation the AUDI of automobile works GmbH took place into a corporation.
First left-guided vehicle
1921 surprised the AUDI works AG the professional world with the new AUDI 14/50 HP type K, the first left-steered car in Germany. 1923 followed the type M with a six cylinder engine and four years later with the AUDI Imperator the first AUDI eight-cylinder car were introduced. In August 1928 Jörgen Skafte Rasmussen, Besitzer of the Zschopauer Motorenwerke/DKW transferred, the stock majority of the AUDI works AG and integrated the enterprise in the year after in its Firmenimperium. With the beginning of the world economic crisis in October 1929 a substantial break-down of the sales figures took place from large car models with six and eight cylinder engines. Rasmussen let thereupon with AUDI a small DKW car with front wheel drive to develop, which came 1931 with large success on the market.
The four rings
On 29 June 1932 united the AUDI works, the Horchwerke and the Zschopauer Motorenwerke/DKW to car the union AG with seat in Chemnitz. At the same time with the rambler works a purchase and a lease were locked for the assumption of the ramblers automobile department. Symbol of this union were the “four rings”. Within the young mark the AUDI front type UW, an automobile of the middle class developed, with which the new company could use the synergies for the first time. Most important characteristic of the new AUDI was the front wheel drive. The car went finally in the spring 1933 into series. With the outbreak of the Second World War the production of civil vehicles was nearly completely gone back and the company was changed over to arms production. In April 1940 the last AUDI came off the line.
Restart in Ingolstadt
After completion of the Second World War the car union AG lain in the Soviet zone of occupation was expropriated, the manufacturing plants was dismantled and the enterprise 1948 from the Register of Companies of the city Chemnitz was deleted. Prominent coworkers had already gone with end of war to Bavaria, where at the end of of 1945 in Ingolstadt was furnished first a depot for car union of spare parts. From this germ cell a new society on 3 September 1949 with the cars union GmbH, which continued the motor vehicle tradition of the four rings, developed. On the export fair in Hanover in the spring 1949 the DKW F 89 L high-speed vice and the motorcycle DKW blank 125 W were presented. These justified the automotive industry in Ingolstadt.
The rebirth of the AUDI brand
Center of the 1960er-Jahre appeared the first autounion model with four-cylinder four-stroke engine. The cars union “type AUDI”, first without further model designation, and a full success was applied intensively. The series became, with some technical and optical modifications, until 1972 produce. But also in other regard a new era began in Ingolstadt. Since 1965 the Ingolstädter enterprise belongs to the Volkswagen company. Its own vehicle development was forbidden to the Ingolstädter technicians by the new heads of the household, but Ludwig Kraus, development boss at that time, manufactured in secret a new model. In November 1968 the AUDI 100 in Ingolstadt of the international press was introduced. With this car developed the first vehicle, which was free from the DKW estate.
Projection/lead by technology
Under direction that Volkswagenwerk AG came it 1969 to the fusion between the cars union GmbH and into Neckarsulm the residents NSU of engine works AG. The new enterprise now carried the designation AUDI NSU car union AG and had its seat in Neckarsulm. The extensive pallet of AUDI and NSU models with different engines and propulsion principles led 1971 to a new, still valid advertising slogan: “Projection/lead by technology”. In this sense 1972 appeared the AUDI 80 of the first generation (series B1). Up to the production end of the first generation over one million copies were manufactured by it. 1985 took place then renaming the enterprise from AUDI NSU car union AG in AUDI AG. The enterprise and the products since then carry the same name. The company headquarters was back-shifted to Ingolstadt.
