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Volkswagenwerk - Vehicle Assembly Germany 1953

Photography by Peter Keetman

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Alfred Ehrhardt, VW Käfer, Volkswagenwerk, Wolfsburg, 1949

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Abschlussbleche, Volkswagenwerk, Photo by Peter Keetman, 1953

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Der lange Marsch von Volkswagen in die Bedeutungslosigkeit

Ansage: »Unsinnige Grenzwerte von Stickstoff- und Kohlenstoffdioxid zerstören die deutsche und europäische Automobilindustrie. Vorstände und Gewerkschaften zeigen keine Gegenwehr. Das wär früher anders. Nach dem Studium war ich im Volkswagenwerk als Werkstoffingenieur tätig. Die Aufgabe war, den Käfer besser und billiger zu machen. Das gelang. Es gab Lohnerhöhungen von 10 Prozent im Jahr bei gleichbleibenden oder […] The post Der lange Marsch von Volkswagen in die Bedeutungslosigkeit first appeared on Ansage. http://dlvr.it/TDHzTz «

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I actually hear a lot of VW owners saying VW now. Maybe it's an upper midwest thing???

Haha no, it's not just the midwestern thing!

The popularizing of "VW" was part of the intentional and concentrated effort for the brand to provide more distance from the name Volkswagen and their history of being founded by the Nazi Germany Labor Front in 1937 and the use of slave labor of about 15,000 people at Arbeitsdorf concentration camp to produce their cars, among others.

They were first registered as Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH (Company for the Preparation of the German Volkswagen Ltd) in 1937, which was maybe shortened to Gezuvor (GeZuVor) for short? And then a year later in 1938 the company renamed to Volkswagenwerk GmbH. (LLC basically). This is also when they open the factory town called Stadt des KdF-Wagens.

The shortening to just Volkswagen instead of Volkswagenwerk happens post war (town is also renamed). In April 1945, American forces capture the factory town and hand over control to the British (it was in their territorial zone). The British could've dismantled the factory since it was used for military purposes also, but they were short of smaller/lighter transport so the leadership and their German assistant....had the factory produce them 20,000 cars. Y'know, the factory that was probably 80% slave labor from concentration camps. The British tries to keep the factory open after the war & tries to sell it, no buyers, offers it to Henry Ford for free, and then finally the German assistant just takes it over and that's how they stayed open.

...also in case anyone's like wow what a fluke, they clearly turned around as a company! Redemption arc?? — Volkswagen do Brasil was accused of spying on workers and acting as police informants of their activities during Brazilian military dictatorship rule in the 1970's, which lead to mass arrests and also the torture of many Volkswagen factory workers.

So like. Weird that the literal torture of their factory workers in the support of terrible military dictatorships kept happening.

The company TODAY does publicly and openly admit this Nazi history on their website, so they're not like, outright lying.

But like this dealership alludes to: "While it took awhile to gain traction in the United States due to the Nazi connection, it (Volkswagen) soon grew in popularity."

The conscious effort to rebrand to anglophones (especially Americans) as "VW" for short was an intentional part of overcoming the distrust of the Nazi origins of the company. The Volkswagen was first brought to the US in 1949, and only two cars sold.

Their real big extremely wildly successful American advertising campaign "Think Small" in 1959 also notably (from what I can tell) doesn't ever say Volkswagen, only VW.

Other campaigns of the 60's-onwards may say Volkswagen in the text, but the VW logo and use of "VW" is more frequent.

Anyways wild they kept the super Nazi Volk related name.

**(the company admitted to this approx number in 1998, and then set up a voluntary restitution fund as a result of being sued by Holocaust survivors).

It's wild that Volkswagen never included a name change in their rebranding. Like even thinking about it for two seconds it's just like, wow, you really stuck with that name, huh?

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Volkswagenwerk GMBH 1951 1952 KLEINBUS Brochure VW Volkswagen Tour Bus catalogue

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Volkswagenwerk Wolfsburg, 1948. - source Automobiles and Dealerships of the Past and the Modern Era.

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Volkswagen Limousine (Type 1), 1945. Today, December 27, is the 75th anniversary of the start of series production of the civilian Volkswagen, referred to internally as “Type 1”. The model had originally been planned as a project of the National Socialists (Nazis). However from 1939 onwards the Wolfsburg plant produced armaments instead of vehicles. Up to the end of World War II, only 630 units of the model, which had been renamed “KdF-Wagen” in 1938, left the factory. US troops liberated the Volkswagen plant and the city then known as “Stadt des KdF-Wagens” which was later named Wolfsburg, on April 11, 1945. The trusteeship over Volkswagenwerk GmbH had been assumed by the British Military Government in June 1945. The British planned to use the VW Type 1 to perform transport tasks within their occupation zone. Senior Resident Officer Major Ivan Hirst played a key role in this development, with his enthusiasm for technology and cars, he succeeded in transforming a former armaments plant into a civilian industrial company in an impressively short space of time. 

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FULL HISTORY OF AUDI MOTORS:

The Name Audi Signifies that it's one the Highly Oldest Company in the World.The Start Up place is located in Zwickau, Germany.

Audi is a German Car producing Company established by August Horch. The roots of this amazing auto-faction date back to November 14, 1899, the day when its organizer, August Horch, set up his absolute first vehicle organization, named as A. Horch and Cie.

Motorwagen Werke, in the area of Cologne where he constructed his absolute first vehicle in 1901. Following a distinction of assessment with the organization's administrative board, Horch needed to move out of his mayden undertaking and proceed onward to set up another vehicle manufacturing plant by the name of Horch Automobil-Werke GmbH in 1909.

Yet, a similar destiny followed Horch in this new pursuit also, and soon he got himself, once more, disavowing an organization that he had set up himself. Not one to be debilitate so effectively, August Horch, in 1909 itself set up a second 'Horch' vehicle industrial facility in Zwickau, which he later renamed as 'Audi' because of some brand name encroachment issues with his previous business partners.

From the get-go in the year from that point onward, the world had the chance to observe the dispatch of the primary Audi vehicle, the Type B, after which the automaker never needed to think back.In spite of the fact that August Horch made his first vehicle in 1901, he began Audi Company in 1909. 'Audi' is the interpretation of his German name "Horch" which intends to "tune in!" into the Latin "Audi".

Audi is popular for it Aluminum body vehicles today. However, this remarkable practice of light weight Aluminum vehicle body development was spearheaded by Audi, path back in 1913.

In 1932, Audi converged with Horch, DKW and Wanderer, to shape Auto Union AG. The four rings of the Audi identification represent the brands Audi, DKW, Horch and Wanderer. Before World War II, Auto Union AG utilized the four interlinked rings, just on Auto Union dashing vehicles around there. Part organizations utilized their own names and images.Car Union GmbH was set up in Ingolstadt on September third, 1949 after a progression of changes as WWII reached a conclusion.

1958, because of pressing factor from Friedrich Flick, at that point the organization's biggest single investor, Daimler-Benz took a 87% holding in the Auto Union organization, and this was expanded to a 100% holding in 1959. Be that as it may, little two-stroke vehicles were not the focal point of Daimler-Benz's inclinations, and keeping in mind that the mid 1960s saw significant interest in new Mercedes models and in a cutting edge production line for Auto Union's, the organization's maturing model reach right now didn't profit by the period of prosperity of the mid 1960s similarly as contender makers like Volkswagen and Opel.

The choice to discard the Auto Union business depended on its absence of productivity. Amusingly, when they sold the business, it additionally incorporated a huge new manufacturing plant and close to creation prepared present day four-cycle motor, which would empower the Auto Union business, under another proprietor, to leave on a time of beneficial development, presently delivering not Auto Unions or DKWs, but rather utilizing the "Audi" name, revived in 1965 following a 25-year hole.

In 1969,Volkswagenwerk AG designed the consolidation of Auto Union GmbH and the Neckarsulm-based NSU Motorenwerke AG. The new organization presently got known as Audi NSU Auto Union AG and had its enlisted office in Neckarsulm. The new Audi NSU Auto Union AG with head office in Neckarsulm appeared.

The organization name, which was curiously long and hard to recall, turned into a matter of discussion toward the start of the 1980s; this was because of the way that NSU stopped to be utilized as an item name after the NSU RO 80 left creation in 1977. The Board of Management chose to rename the organization AUDI AG, which produced results from 1 January 1985. From that point on both the organization and its items have borne a similar short and brief name. Considering the difference in name, the administrative center moved from Neckarsulm to Ingolstadt.

The 1994 Geneva Motor saw the Audi A8 with its extravagant all-aluminum body. Then the A4 was a thundering achievement, especially in the US,Audi A2, an advanced overly smaller than expected, performed generally inadequately because of its excessive cost, however it was a colossal innovative achievement. With an aluminum outline, a super-effective TDI three-chamber motor and an air stream tried streamlined body, it recaptured Audi's previous tradition of being specialized trailblazers.

In India, Audi has launched their first vehicle in 2004. In any case, it wasn't until March, 2007 that an undeniable Indian wing of the German auto-goliath, Audi India, was set up in the country as a division of the Volkswagen Group Sales India Pvt. Ltd, With its base camp situated in Mumbai, Maharashtra.

It was in the year 2009 when the last makeover was given to the Audi logo, at the 100th birthday celebration commemoration of the organization.

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Laut Ministerpräsident Michael Kretschmer drohe massiver Stellenabbau

Tichy:»»Bedauerliche Nachrichten« in den nächsten Tagen hatte Sachsens Ministerpräsident Michael Kretschmer, laut einem Bildbericht vor Parteimitgliedern angekündigt. Eine ganze Reihe von Kollegen würden zumindest zeitweise dort erst mal nicht mehr arbeiten können. In Zwickau steht möglicherweise das Volkswagenwerk auf der Kippe. Dort drohe in jetzt ein massiver Stellenabbau, wie gestern Abend Kretschmer bei einer CDU Der Beitrag Laut Ministerpräsident Michael Kretschmer drohe massiver Stellenabbau erschien zuerst auf Tichys Einblick. http://dlvr.it/Sw1dNh «

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VW Karmann-Ghia Typ 14 by Imagonos 5. Eisenberger Stadtrllye 2017 Der VW Karmann-Ghia (Typ 14) (['gia], nicht ['dʒia]) ist der Name eines Automobils des Volkswagenwerkes, das bei Karmann in Osnabrück gebaut wurde. Insgesamt 443.466 Wagen (362.585 Coupés und 80.881 Cabriolets) konnte Volkswagen zwischen 1955 und 1974 absetzen. Motor und Fahrwerk des Karmann-Ghia Typ 14 gleichen weitgehend denen des VW Käfers, die Bodenplatte des Rahmens ist etwas breiter. Vorgestellt wurde der Sportwagen am 14. Juli 1955 als Coupé in Gazellenbeige. Quelle: wikipedia Some of my groups and albums DIES UND DAS - BITS AND PIECES STRASSENPHOTOGRAPHIE - STREET PHOTOGRAPHY VINTAGE PHOTOGEAR AUTOPORTRAETS - CAR PORTRAITS ASPHALT VETERANEN - BLACKTOP VETERANS OPEL TOTAL OPEL / VAUXHALL CLASSICS OPEL RARITIES AND SPECIALS MASCHINE UND BEWEGUNG - MACHINE AND MOVING NIMM PLATZ - TAKE A SEAT MONOCHROME TO SEE ONLY IN 30/60 OPTED OUT GROUPS ! NUR IN GRUPPEN OHNE 30/60 RESTRIKTION ZU SEHEN https://flic.kr/p/2jLaCeL

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