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Brennabor - the rise and fall of one of Germany's largest automobile factories

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Created on April 1, 1985

Reading time 7min

Written by:

Ulrich Kubisch

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Brennabor Juwel 8 (1930) - Eine künstlerische Illustration aus einem Verkaufsprospekt.

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Brennabor Juwel 8 (1930) - Auch für grössere Familien gut geeignet.

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Brennabor Juwel 6 (1929) - Lange und breite und daher geräumige Karosserie. Gut gefederte und gepolsterte klubsesselartige Sitze vermeiden Ermüdungserscheinungen.

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Brennabor Juwel 8 (1930) - 4-5 Sitzer Cabriolet mit geschlossenem Verdeck.

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Brennabor Juwel 8 (1930) - 4-5 Sitzer Cabriolet mit geöffnetem Verdeck.

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Brennabor - Präsentation auf dem Pariser Automobilsalon von 1930

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Brennabor - Präsentation auf dem Autosalon

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Brennabor (1930) - vordere Einzelradaufhängungen

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Brennabor (1930) - freigelegtes Chassis ohne Aufbau

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Brennabor - Schwingungsdämpfer sichert ruhigen und erschütterungsfreien Lauf der Kurbelwelle.

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Brennabor Juwel 8 (1930) - Seitenansicht der Vergaserseite des Brennabor 8-Zylinder Reihenmotors mit angeflanschtem Getriebe.

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Brennabor - Längsschnitt durch den Brennabor 2.5 Liter - 45 PS - 6 Zylinder.

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Summary

The German automobile company Brennabor only had a short, albeit quite successful, time. Starting out as a manufacturer of baby carriages, the company soon turned its attention to the automobile. Thanks to various previously unheard-of changes and innovations, the Brennabor company was very successful. But it came as it had to: the rapid rise was followed by an equally rapid fall, as this newly edited report from the magazine Automobil und Motorrad Chronik from 1985, supplemented with a lot of contemporary picture and sales literature material, knows how to convey.

This article contains the following chapters

From baby carriages to automobiles
Baby carriages, bicycles and then motor vehicles
First automobile - Brennaborette - from 1907
Assembly line technology for the production of ammunition during the First World War
Brennabor introduced laterally closed bodies for the first time
The quest for comfort
Gemeinschaft Deutscher Automobilfabriken GmbH
World economic crisis - unsuccessful rescue attempt by Brennabor
The rise was followed by the fall

Estimated reading time: 7min

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The production program of Brennabor - a company that was the largest automobile factory in Germany in 1925 - once ranged from baby carriages to large eight-cylinder cars. It was truly unforeseeable that the modest 15-man operation founded by a certain Carl Reichstein and his brothers Adolf and Hermann in Brandenburg an der Havel in 1871 would one day become Germany's largest automobile factory. The products of 1871 had only one thing in common with those of later times: four wheels. The Reichsteins began their entry into the industrial age by manufacturing baby carriages from wickerwork. Business must have been good, because just three years later the company moved to larger premises at Brandenburg's main railway station and the workforce grew to 300. By the turn of the century, there were already 800, and by the end of the 1920s, 8,000 people were employed by Brennabor, with the factories covering an area of 400,000 square meters.

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