19 Facts About Wilhelm Maybach

Wilhelm Maybach died in 1929 and was succeeded by his son Karl Maybach.

From around 1936 Wilhelm Maybach-Motorenbau designed and made almost all the engines fitted in German tanks and half-tracks used during World War 2, including those for the Panther, Tiger I and Tiger II heavy tanks.

Wilhelm Maybach was born in Heilbronn, Baden-Wurttemberg, in 1846, the son of a carpenter and his wife Luise.

Wilhelm Maybach's mother died in 1856 and his father in 1859.

In 1869, Wilhelm Maybach followed Daimler to Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Karlsruhe AG in Karlsruhe, a manufacturer of heavy locomotives.

Also in 1876, Wilhelm Maybach was sent to show Deutz's engines at the Philadelphia World's Fair.

In 1878, Maybach married Bertha Wilhelmine Habermaas, a friend of Daimler's wife, Emma Kunz.

On 6 July 1879 Karl Wilhelm Maybach was born, the first of their three children.

In 1882, Wilhelm Maybach moved to Taubenheimstrasse in Cannstatt, Stuttgart, where Daimler had purchased a house with 75,000 goldmarks from his Deutz compensation.

In late 1883, Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach patented the first of their engines fueled by Ligroin.

In 1890, Daimler and Wilhelm 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, water, or air transport.

Wilhelm Maybach was rejected as a member of the Board of Management and left the company on 11 February 1891, and continued his design work from his own house, financed by Daimler.

In 1894 Wilhelm Maybach designed his third engine model, together with Daimler and his son Paul.

In 1895 DMG assembled its 1,000th engine, and Wilhelm Maybach returned as Chief Engineer, obtaining 30,000 goldmarks worth of shares through his original contract with Gottlieb Daimler.

Between April and October 1900, Wilhelm Maybach designed a completely new kind of car inspired by racing which would be called the Mercedes 35 hp when released in 1902.

In 1900, Wilhelm Maybach had had his first contact with Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin who sought to improve the engines of the Zeppelin LZ1 airship.

The first model, the Wilhelm Maybach W3, was shown at the 1921 Automobile Exposition in Berlin and featured.

Wilhelm Maybach died at the age of 83 in Stuttgart on 29 December 1929.

From around 1935 Wilhelm Maybach made and designed almost all the engines for tanks and half-tracks used by the German armed forces during World War 2.