Stoewer
Stoewer was a 1858 to 1945 based in Szczecin companies. It was mainly known as car and bike manufacturers.
History
The company was founded in 1858 by Bernhard Stoewer in Szczecin as fine mechanical repair shop. In the same year sewing machines also started the production of.
As of 1893, the production of bicycles and from 1903 was also included the production of typewriters.
In 1896 the Szczecin ferrous Bernhard Stoewer was sen. hived off, which supplied the parent company with parts for the production of bicycles and also started the production of cast-iron stoves. At the same time the main plant was converted into a public limited company under the name sewing machines and bicycles factory Bernhard Stoewer.
In 1899, the ironworks was of the sons (Bernhard Stoewer jun. Stoewer and Emil ) taken, and brothers Stoewer, renamed factory for motor vehicles. In the same year was presented the first model of Large Stoewer motor cars. Stoewer thus one of the pioneers of car production in Germany.
The conversion into a joint stock company Stoewer -Werke AG, formerly Gebr Stoewer was 1916. From 1917-1926 Stoewer also built tractors. In 1926 Fritz Fiedler was working at the company and introduced its first model in 1927 as the junior together with Bernhard Stoewer. developed F 6 (6/ 30 hp ) 1.6 - liter four-cylinder engine before. Stoewer chief designer Fiedler went late 1929 initially to Zwickau to Horch and changed the middle of 1932 to the BMW factory in Eisenach.
In the 1920s, the company made a name as a small batch manufacturer of high quality and luxury sports cars that competed at par with Horch and Mercedes. The S 8 (8/ 45 hp ) with 45 - hp eight-cylinder in-line engine and rear-wheel drive introduced in 1928 in its class a solid offer is followed by the G 15 giant ( 15/80 hp) with 80 - hp eight-cylinder engine, which until 1933 remained in production. Top model was the 20 P rep (20/ 100 hp ) with 100 - hp eight-cylinder, however, emerged from the 1930 and 1933 only 24 vehicles. Stoewer never tried to compete in the mass market, and the solid financial base allowed it to survive the great extinction of the car manufacturers in the world economic crisis.
In 1930 Stoewer began to develop a first small car with front wheel drive. The Stoewer V 5 with four-cylinder V-engine ( 1.2 liters, 25 hp ) was ready for testing in the same year. From January 1931 2100 cars were built until 1932 in series. From successor Stoewer R 140 with 1.4 - liter in-line engine (30 hp) 2310 vehicles left the factory in Szczecin. After that, the growing middle class car R 150 ( 1.5 liter, 35 hp, 1934) and R 180 ( 1.8 liter, 45 hp, 1935) and 1934 Stoewer gripping V8 followed by a 2.5-liter eight-cylinder V-engine and 57 hp. All of the cars were front-wheel drive.
The later models had again the conventional rear-wheel drive: Griffin Junior ( 1.5 - liter four-cylinder, 1935), Sedina ( 2.4 - liter four-cylinder, 1937) and the successor to the V8 gripping the Arkona ( 3.6 liter six-cylinder, 1937).
The Szczecin company was also involved in the mid- 1930s as part of the upgrade of the Wehrmacht in the centrally controlled military production. The ( LEPKW ) developed at Stoewer and there from 1936 to 1943 made Light unit car with four-wheel drive was 11,000 cars for most built Stoewer vehicle. As a licensed construction introduced him also the BMW factory in Eisenach as a BMW 325 and Hanomag in Hanover ( Hanomag 20 B) ago.
By order of the Nazi government of Stoewer Flugmotorenbau 1937 in the subsidiary Pomeranian engine GmbH in Arnimswalde (now Zalom, Poland) outsourced. In 1941 built Stoewer chassis of the Panzer I to the Flakpanzer I. From 1943 the Szczecin plant built under license the NSU Kettenkrad.
After the war, Stettin fell to Poland and the company's history ended. The plants were dismantled and transported to the USSR. In the Polytechnic Museum in Moscow, the only surviving copy of the Great motor car is.