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inventor , designer, founder
Willelm Maybach was a German engineer and entrepreneur. Maybach is remembered for giving a great impulse to the automotive industry along with colleague Gottlieb Daimler. Maybach focused mainly of engines and cars, but also built motorcycles and engines for airships.
Who-is-Who in MMS, History of machines, history of mechanical engineering, machine design, engineer, designer, inventor, industrialist, automobile.
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variant spelling:
Maybach, August Wilhelm
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Curriculum vitae
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* 09.02.1846
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Heilbronn
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born
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1863
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he meets Gottlieb Daimler
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1869 - 1872
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Daimler and Maybach worked in a a railway factory
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1885
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Daimler and Maybach created the first motorcycle
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1886
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Daimler and Maybach built their first car, the Daimler Motorkutsche
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1890
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Daimler and Maybach formed the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft” DMG
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1900
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He designed and built the “Mercedes 35PS”
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1907
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He left DMG, replaced by Daimler’ son Paul
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1909
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Maybach and his son Carl organized a company to build aircraft engines “Maybach-Motorenbau GmbH”
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1916
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He retires from public life
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† 29.12.1929
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Stuttgart
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died
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1996
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He is accepted in the “Automotive Hall of Fame”
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