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- Title
Per aspera ad astra: Zu den Krisenreaktionen des deutschen Automobilbaus in den frühen 1930er Jahren und deren mittelfristigen Folgen.
- Authors
BAUER, REINHOLD
- Abstract
This article focuses on how the period of global economic depression, called the Great Depression, along with certain technological innovations, affected the German automobile manufacturers during the early 20th century. Several topics are discussed, including how the integration of American technological innovations, such as the assembly line and the continuous production line, in car manufacturing plants in the early 1920s was the catalyst for the mass production of automobiles, how some German car manufacturers, such as Adler Trumpf Junior, Mercedes-Benz, and Stoewer, started designing smaller and cheaper automobiles with front-wheel-drive during the Great Depression, and how in the 1930s the German car manufacturers competed to produce the most innovative cars.
- Subjects
GERMANY; AUTOMOBILE industry; GERMAN economy, 1918-1945; STOEWER automobile; ADLER Trumpf-Junior automobile; MERCEDES automobiles; TECHNOLOGY transfer; MANUFACTURING processes; MASS production; MOTOR vehicle industry; HISTORY of automobiles; TWENTIETH century; ECONOMICS; HISTORY
- Publication
Technikgeschichte, 2011, Vol 78, Issue 1, p25
- ISSN
0040-117X
- Publication type
Article