Hochburg des innovativen und hochwertigen Autobaus Teil 1 Historisches Wien

This video is the first part of a summary of the history of automobile manufacturing in Vienna. It begins with Friedrich Markus, who was long mistakenly considered the inventor of the automobile (1875). In 1968, Hans Seper, an Austrian historian of technology and former curator at the Vienna Technical Museum, corrected this error and proved that Carl Friedrich Benz had already applied for a patent for the first practical automobile in 1885. Siegfried Markus developed his motorcar in 1888/1889. The pioneering automobile manufacturer in Vienna was the Lohner company in collaboration with Ferdinand Porsche. Another important company was Austro-Daimler, which emerged from the limited partnership Bieren Fischer & Co., which, after merging with the Puch Works and the Austrian Aircraft Factory AG, became Austro-Daimler-Puchwerke AG and subsequently merged with the Steyr Works to form Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG. Key products of Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG were the Steyr 100 and Steyr 200, as well as the Steyr Baby. Later came the Puch 500, the Haflinger, and the Pinzgauer. Gräf & Stift was a prestigious brand, valued by the imperial family and the affluent bourgeoisie. The companies "Celeritas" and the Perl automobile factory should also be mentioned in connection with Gräf & Stift. The first third of the 20th century (1900 to 1938) was a particularly fruitful and innovative period for automobile manufacturing in Vienna. This history cannot be condensed into a single video, hence the further installment in the video "Stronghold of Innovative and High-Quality Automobile Manufacturing Part II: Historical Vienna."