Auto Unions

Extracted Attributes

• Logo

  Four interlocking rings

• Founding Date

  1932-01-01

• Current Function

  Management of historical trademarks and heritage operations as Auto Union GmbH

• Constituent Brands

  Audi, Horch, DKW, Wanderer

• Original Headquarters

  Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany

• Post-War Headquarters

  Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany

• Historical Speed Record

  432.7 km/h (268.9 mph) on a public road

Timeline

• Auto Union AG is formed through the amalgamation of Audi, Horch, DKW, and Wanderer. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1932-01-01

• The Auto Union racing team begins dominating Grand Prix motor racing with the Silver Arrows. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1934-01-01

• Following WWII, Saxon plants are dismantled by Soviet forces as war reparations and assets are liquidated. (Source: Web Search (Auto History Preservation Society))

  1945-01-01

• Auto Union is re-founded in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, with support from the Bavarian government and Marshall Plan aid. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1949-01-01

• Daimler-Benz acquires an 87% stake in Auto Union. (Source: Web Search (Auto History Preservation Society))

  1958-01-01

• Volkswagen acquires Auto Union from Daimler-Benz. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1964-01-01

• Auto Union merges with NSU Motorenwerke to form Audi NSU Auto Union AG. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1969-01-01

• The company is renamed Audi AG and Auto Union GmbH is established as a heritage subsidiary. (Source: Wikipedia)

  1985-01-01

• Auto labor unions initiate strikes against Ford and General Motors, impacting the legacy automotive sector. (Source: Document 0ec8558c-54ac-4c28-a128-3d525017e6c2)

  2023-09-01

Auto Union

Auto Union AG was an amalgamation of four German automobile manufacturers, founded in 1932 and established in 1936 in Chemnitz, Saxony. It is the immediate predecessor of Audi as it is known today. As well as acting as an umbrella firm for its four constituent brands (Audi, Horch, DKW, Wanderer), Auto Union is widely known for its racing team (Auto Union Rennabteilung, based at Horch works in Zwickau/Saxony). The Silver Arrows of the two German teams (Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union) dominated not only Grand Prix motor racing from 1934 onwards but set records that would take decades to beat, such as the fastest speed ever attained on a public road (at 432.7 km/h (268.9 mph), a record lasting until 2017. After being reduced to near ruin in the aftermath of World War II, Auto Union was re-founded in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, in 1949, ultimately evolving into the modern day Audi company following its takeover by Volkswagen in 1964 and later merger with NSU Motorenwerke in 1969. The current corporate entity which bears the Auto Union name, Auto Union GmbH, was founded in 1985 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Audi AG; its purpose is to act as owner of Auto Union's historical trademarks and intellectual property, as well as managing Audi's heritage operations. The company's distinctive logo of four interlocking rings to represent the original four members of the Auto Union survives as the logo of Audi.

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• Auto Union

  Auto Union AG was an amalgamation of four German automobile manufacturers, founded in 1932 and established in 1936 in Chemnitz, Saxony. It is the immediate predecessor of Audi as it is known today. [...] As well as acting as an umbrella firm for its four constituent brands (Audi, Horch, DKW, Wanderer "Wanderer (car)")), Auto Union is widely known for its racing team (Auto Union Rennabteilung, based at Horch works in Zwickau/Saxony). The Silver Arrows of the two German teams (Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union) dominated not only Grand Prix motor racing from 1934 onwards but set records that would take decades to beat, such as the fastest speed ever attained on a public road (at 432.7 km/h (268.9 mph), a record lasting until 2017. After being reduced to near ruin in the aftermath of World War II, Auto Union was re-founded in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, in 1949, ultimately evolving into the modern day Audi company following its takeover by Volkswagen in 1964 and later merger with NSU Motorenwerke in [...] After being merged with Neckarsulm car maker NSU, the official name became Audi NSU Auto Union AG, which was simply shortened to Audi AG in 1985, ending both the Auto Union and NSU brands. The company's headquarters returned to Ingolstadt; at the same time Audi formed the new companies Auto Union GmbH, and NSU GmbH as wholly owned subsidiaries whose function was to own and protect the historical trademarks and intellectual property of both Auto Union and NSU.

• Auto Union racing cars - Wikipedia

  Between 1935 and 1937, Auto Unions won 25 races, driven by Ernst von Delius, Tazio Nuvolari, Bernd Rosemeyer, Hans Stuck and Achille Varzi. Auto Union proved particularly successful in the 1936 and 1937 seasons. Their main competition came from the Mercedes Benz team, which also raced sleek, silver cars. Known as the Silver Arrows, the cars of the two German teams dominated Grand Prix racing until the outbreak of World War II in 1939. ## Background [edit] ### P-Wagen project [edit] [...] ### Auto Union [edit] In 1932 Auto Union Gmbh was formed, comprising struggling auto manufacturers Audi, DKW, Horch and Wanderer "Wanderer (car)"). The chairman of the board of Directors, Baron Klaus von Oertzen wanted a show piece project, so at fellow director Adolf Rosenberger's insistence, von Oertzen met with Porsche, who had done work for him before. At the 1933 Berlin Motor Show, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler announced two new programs: The people's car: a project that would eventually become the KdF-wagen A state-sponsored motor racing programme: to develop a "high speed German automotive industry," the foundation of which would be an annual sum of 500,000 Reichsmarks to Mercedes-Benz [...] The original Porsche-designed V16 was modified as a V12 when in 1938 the Grand Prix regulations set a limit of 3 litres on supercharged engines. Originally designed as a 6-litre, the first Auto Union engines displaced 4,360 cc and developed 295 PS (217 kW). They had two cylinder blocks, inclined at an angle of 45 degrees, with a single overhead camshaft to operate all 32 valves. The intake valves in the hemispherical cylinder heads were connected to the camshaft by rocker arms, while for the exhaust valves the rocker arms were connected to the camshaft by pushrods that passed through tubes situated above the spark plugs; thus the engine had three valve covers. The engine provided optimum torque at low engine speeds, and Bernd Rosemeyer later drove an Auto Union around the Nürburgring in a

• United Auto Workers

  The United Auto Workers (UAW), fully named International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, is an American labor union that represents workers in the United States (including Puerto Rico) and southern Ontario, Canada. [...] UAW members in the 21st century work in industries including autos and auto parts, health care, casino gambling, and higher education. The union is headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. As of February 24, 2022, the UAW has more than 391,000 active members and more than 580,000 retired members in over 600 local unions and holds 1,150 contracts with some 1,600 employers. It holds assets amounting to just over $1 billion. ## History [edit] ### Background and founding [edit] [...] The UAW was born out of an organizing drive by the American Federation of Labor (AFL). The AFL had traditionally focused on organizing skilled workers practicing specific trades, an approach known as craft unionism. Because most automobile workers were not skilled, as of the early 1930s, they were largely not unionized. This changed following the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933. AFL president William Green "William Green (labor leader)") decided to begin recruiting unskilled and semi-skilled workers. He planned to organize workers at each factory into a temporary "federal labor union" (FLU), whose members would then be divided up amongst the AFL's various craft unions. He sent William Collins to Detroit (the center of the automobile industry) to begin the effort.

• Audi History -Auto Union and DKW

  In 1932, with all companies still losing money, Audi/DKW, Horch, and Wanderer were brought together under the umbrella of communal shareholder company Auto Union. Although all four brands continued to build cars under their own names and brands, the technological development became more centralized, with some Audi models employing engines by Horch or Wanderer. Postwar, the Saxon plants of Auto Union were located in the Soviet-occupied zone of communist East Germany. In 1945, on the orders of the occupying Soviet military administration, the factories were dismantled as war reparations, while the racing cars found stored in a colliery were returned to Moscow for reverse engineering. Following this, Auto Union AG assets were liquidated without compensation. [...] Meanwhile back in 1945, with the Red Army quickly advancing on Zwickau immediately after the war, and faced with the prospect of trying to salvage what was left of the company Auto Union’s executives had no option but to flee and re-establish the company on the Western side of partitioned Germany. Thus a new Auto Union company was launched in Ingolstadt, Bavaria with loans from the Bavarian state government and Marshall Plan aid. [...] 1958 was a turning point for the company. Firstly, it saw the return of the Auto Union brand, represented by 1000, a small saloon. At the same time the 1000 Sp, a stylish coupé, was produced for Auto Union by the Stuttgart coachbuilders, Baur. Secondly, in response to pressure from Friedrich Flick, then their largest single shareholder, Daimler-Benz acquired 87% of Auto Union, taking complete control in 1959.

• United Auto Workers (UAW) locals 1937-1949

  will be a growing list of the major unions starting with United Auto Workers (UAW), United Electrical Workers (UE), International Ladies Garment Workers (ILGWU), International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). | [...] Founded in 1935 as one of the first initiatives of the industrial union organizing committee led by John L. Lewis, the United Auto Workers won a breakthrough victory against General Motors in the dramatic Flint, Michigan sit down strike in the winter of 1936-1937. After General Motors agreed to bargain, Chrysler and several smaller auto companies followed suit and by mid-1937 the new union claimed 150,000 members and was spreading through the auto and parts manufacturing towns of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Then the union experienced a series of setbacks. The economy dipped into a second depression, auto sales fell, and companies announced layoffs. Meanwhile Henry Ford instructed his plant superintendents to stop the union at all costs. This was also when the American [...] | CIO Unions History and Geography - Introduction The CIO transformed American labor and American politics. Defying the American Federation of Labor's commitment to craft unionism, the Committee for Industrial Organization was launched in 1935 by leaders of the United Mine Workers and other AFL unions that had previously embraced industrial union organizing strategies. The goal was to build unions in core industries like steel, auto, aircraft, electrical appliances, meat packing, tires, and textiles that had blocked organizing efforts at every turn. Here we explore the history and geography of the CIO unions from 1935 through the end of the 1940s with maps and membership data showing the growth and in some cases decline of what will be a growing list of the major unions starting with