Rumpler

Founded in Berlin by Austrian engineer Edmund Rumpler in 1909 as Rumpler Luftfahrzeugbau.Gunston 1993, p.259 The firm originally manufactured copies of the Etrich Taube monoplane under the Rumpler Taube trademark, but turned to building reconnaissance biplanes of its own design through the course of the First World War, in addition to a smaller number of fighters and bombers.Kroschel & Stützer 1994, p.100

The company, from the beginning a limited liability concern (GmbH), became a Aktiengesellschaft in the style of Rumpler-Werke AG on 21 September 1917 with a capitalization of 3,5 million Marks.

In 1918, 3300 people worked for RumplerRumpler 1919, p.63 at the Berlin headquarter and a subsidiary in Augsburg, the Bayerische Rumpler-Werke AG.

As a consequence of the Treaty of Versailles Germany was not allowed to manufacture aircraft. Rumpler instead attempted to secure a place in the post-war automobile market, which lead to the development of a vehicle with the first effective aerodynamic chassis, the Rumpler Tropfenwagen, on the premises of its Augsburg subsidiary. It was shown at the 1921 Internationale Automobil Ausstellung which then took place in Berlin.

The car failed to attract sufficient sales and the Bayerische Rumpler-Werke AG went into receivership in 1923, followed by the Rumpler-Werke AG in Berlin in 1925. The assets were liquidated in 1926, with the Augsburg premises bought 30 July 1926 by the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke, predecessor of BMW.

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• Rumpler 6B
• Rumpler B.I
• Rumpler C.I
• Rumpler C.III
• Rumpler C.IV
• Rumpler C.V
• Rumpler C.VI
• Rumpler C.VII
• Rumpler C.VIII
• Rumpler C.X
• Rumpler D.I
• Rumpler G.I
• Rumpler G.II
• Rumpler G.III

• List of aircraft manufacturers
• List of Rumpler Aircraft
• Rumpler Tropfenwagen

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• {{cite book |last= Gunston |first= Bill |title=World Encyclopedia of Aircraft Manufacturers |year=1993 |publisher=Naval Institute Press |location= Annapolis }}
• {{cite book |last= Kroschel |first=Günter |author2=Helmut Stützer |title=Die Deutschen Militärflugzeuge 1910–1918 |publisher=Verlag E.S. Mittler & Sohn |location=Herford |year=1994}}
• {{cite book |last= Rumpler |first=Edmund |title=10 Jahre deutsche Flugtechnik |publisher=Ecksteins biograph. Verlag |location=Berlin |year=1919}}

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