Rumpler

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Rumpler-Werke
IndustryAircraft and automobile manufacture
PredecessorEdmund Rumpler Luftfahrzeugbau
Rumpler-Luftfahrzeugbau GmbH
Founded1909
Founder Edmund Rumpler
Defunct1925
FateLiquidated
Successornone
Headquarters,
Key people
Edmund Rumpler
Products Aircraft, automobiles
Number of employees
3300 (1918)

Rumpler-Luftfahrzeugbau GmbH, Rumpler-Werke, usually known simply as Rumpler was a German aircraft and automobile manufacturer.

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History

Founded in Berlin by Austrian engineer Edmund Rumpler in 1909 as Rumpler Luftfahrzeugbau. [1] The firm originally manufactured copies of the Etrich Taube monoplane under the Rumpler Taube trademark, but turned to building reconnaissance biplanes of its own design through the course of the First World War, in addition to a smaller number of fighters and bombers. [1] [2]

The company, from the beginning a limited liability concern (GmbH), became a Aktiengesellschaft in the style of Rumpler-Werke AG on 21 September 1917 with a capitalization of 3,5 million Marks.

In 1918, 3300 people worked for Rumpler [3] at the Berlin headquarter and a subsidiary in Augsburg, the Bayerische Rumpler-Werke AG.

As a consequence of the Treaty of Versailles Germany was not allowed to manufacture aircraft. Rumpler instead attempted to secure a place in the post-war automobile market, which lead to the development of a vehicle with the first effective aerodynamic chassis, the Rumpler Tropfenwagen, on the premises of its Augsburg subsidiary. It was shown at the 1921 Internationale Automobil Ausstellung which then took place in Berlin.

The car failed to attract sufficient sales and the Bayerische Rumpler-Werke AG went into receivership in 1923, followed by the Rumpler-Werke AG in Berlin in 1925. The assets were liquidated in 1926, with the Augsburg premises bought 30 July 1926 by the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke, predecessor of BMW.

Aircraft

Hellmuth Hirth (Middle.) and Rumpler (right.) 1911 Hellmuth Hirth.jpg
Hellmuth Hirth (Middle.) and Rumpler (right.) 1911
Rumpler 6B1 lineup Rumpler 6B1.jpg
Rumpler 6B1 lineup
William Augustus Wellman of Escadrille 89 in a captured German Rumpler 1918 William Wellman in a German Rumpler.jpg
William Augustus Wellman of Escadrille 89 in a captured German Rumpler 1918

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 Gunston 1993, p.259
  2. Kroschel & Stützer 1994, p.100
  3. Rumpler 1919, p.63

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