Klockner-Humboldt-Deutz AG
Eugen Langen founded a new company for the construction of gas engines, the Deutz gas engine factory.
1923 Klöckner-Werke AG was founded.
Merging of the engine factory of Deutz with the Humboldt engineering works and the Oberursel car factory to form Humboldt-Deutz-Motoren AG
1936 Humboldt-Deutz-Motoren AG merged with Magirus of Ulm, which made lorries and firefighting equipment.
1938 The merged group became a subsidiary of Klöckner-Werke AG, which was named Kloeckner-Humboldt-Deutz.
Langen invented and applied new methods of production in the Kloeckner-Humboldt-Deutz factory.
Post-WWII Kloeckner-Humboldt-Deutz was split off from Klöckner-Werke AG, going to Klöckner & Co., which in 1953 became its main shareholder.
This became today's Deutz AG.
1954 90th anniversary
1965 Agents in the UK are A. Kracko and British Deutz
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Sources of Information
- [1] Company histories