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Founder
Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen was a Danish engineer and industrialist. He moved to Germany and established several automobile and motorcycle manufacturing companies, including DKW and Framo. Rasmussen acquired a majority interest in Audi in 1928, which four years later became Auto Union with the merger of DKW, Audi, and others.
Who-is-Who in MMS, History of machines, history of mechanical engineering, machine design, engineer, entrepreneur. automobile
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Schreibweisen:
Rasmussen, Jørgen Skafte
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Lebenslauf
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* 30.07.1878
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Nakskov, Denmark
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1916
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Founds DKW
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1919
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DKW made a two-stroke toy engine
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1928
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acquired a majority interest in Audi
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* 12.08.1964
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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