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Wilhelm Maybach

Wilhelm Maybach was an early German engine designer and industrialist. During the 1890s he was hailed in France, then the world centre for car production, as the "King of Designers".

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business · German engine designer and industrialist (1846–1929) · engineer · entrepreneur · inventor · industrialist · also Wilhelm Maybach, August Wilhelm Maybach, Maybach

Born 9 February 1846 · Died 29 December 1929 · Q77125

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Jun 2007Award
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2007).
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Won Grashof Commemorative Medal (1922).
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2014· 1 entry

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Wilhelm Maybach

Daimler announced production of an ultra-luxury edition of the Mercedes-Benz S-Class under the new Mercedes-Maybach brand

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2007· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2007Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (2007).

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2005· 1 entry

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In honor of his grandfather Karl and his great-grandfather Wilhelm, Ulrich Schmid-Maybach founded the Wilhelm and Karl Maybach Foundation

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2002· 2 entries

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The Maybach brand name was revived for a luxury make but it was not successful

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Daimler AG began to produce models under the Maybach name

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1998· 1 entry

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Mercedes-Benz announced what would prove to be a temporary revival of the Maybach brand for automobiles

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1940· 1 entry

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His son was murdered by the Nazis as part of the Euthanasia Program

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1930· 1 entry

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Its successor, the DS7-Zeppelin, also featured a 12-cylinder engine of 7 liters

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1929· 2 entries

Dec 29, 1929Documented record86% confidence

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Died 1929-12-29.

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And was succeeded by his son Karl Maybach

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1922· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1922Documented record84% confidence

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Won Grashof Commemorative Medal (1922).

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1919· 1 entry

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The company started producing large luxury vehicles, branded as "Maybach"

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1916· 2 entries

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Developed a 160 hp aircraft engine which sold 2000 units before the end of World War I

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Wilhelm Maybach was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Technical University of Stuttgart

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1912· 1 entry

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The company adopted the name Maybach-Motorenbau GmbH (Maybach Engine Construction Company)

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1908· 1 entry

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Count Zeppelin attempted to sell his models LZ3 and LZ4 to the government

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1907· 1 entry

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To found Maybach-Motorenbau GmbH together with his son Karl in 1909; they manufactured Zeppelin engines

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1902· 1 entry

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A fire destroyed DMG's Cannstatt facilities and the company moved to Stuttgart-Untertürkheim

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1901· 1 entry

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Went on to have a string of racing successes

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1900· 1 entry

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Maybach had his first contact with Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin who sought to improve the engines of the Zeppelin LZ1 airship

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1899· 1 entry

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Daimler's "pact with the devil", DMG, and the Phoenix engine (1890 to 1900)

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1895· 1 entry

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DMG assembled its 1,000th engine, and Maybach also returned as Chief Engineer, obtaining 30,000 goldmarks worth of shares through his original contract with Gottlieb Daimler

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1894· 2 entries

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A British industrialist, Frederick Simms, purchased the rights to the Phoenix engine for 350,000 marks and stabilised the company's finances

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1894Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Maybach designed his third engine model, together with Daimler and his son Paul

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1890· 1 entry

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Daimler and Maybach together founded the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, the Daimler Motor Corporation or DMG for short, which was dedicated to the construction of small high-speed internal combustion engines for land, wat

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1889· 1 entry

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Built their first automobile to be designed from scratch rather than as an adaptation of a stagecoach

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1885· 1 entry

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Created the first float-fed carburetor, which mixed evaporated gasoline with air to allow its efficient use as fuel

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1884· 1 entry

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Maybach's second son Adolf was born

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1882· 1 entry

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Maybach moved to Taubenheimstrasse in Cannstatt, Stuttgart, where Daimler had purchased a house with 75,000 goldmarks from his Deutz compensation

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1880· 1 entry

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Daimler and Otto had serious disagreements, resulting in Daimler's leaving Deutz-AG

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1878· 1 entry

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Maybach married Bertha Wilhelmine Habermaas, a friend of Daimler's wife, Emma Kunz

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1877· 1 entry

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Concentrated on improving the four-stroke design to prepare it for its impending commercial launch

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1876· 2 entries

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Maybach was sent to show Deutz's engines at the Philadelphia World's Fair (USA)

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1876Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Nicolaus Otto patented the Otto cycle engine

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1872· 1 entry

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Daimler moved to Deutz-AG-Gasmotorenfabrik in Cologne, then the world's largest manufacturer of stationary gas engines

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1869· 1 entry

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Maybach followed Daimler to Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Karlsruhe AG in Karlsruhe, a manufacturer of heavy locomotives

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1846· 1 entry

Feb 9, 1846Documented record86% confidence

Wilhelm Maybach

Born 1846-02-09.

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