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Karl Friedrich Rapp (24 September 1882 – 26 May 1962) was a German founder and owner of the Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH in Munich. In time this company became BMW AG. [1][2] He is acknowledged by BMW AG as an indirect founder of the company. Little is known of Karl Rapp's childhood and adolescent years.
The history of BMW Group goes back to Karl Rapp & Gustav Otto. Read all about the groundbreaking events since our founding in 1916.
Karl Rapp and Julius Auspitzer founded Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH on 27 October 1913 with a capital stock of RM 200,000. The company was established in Milbertshofen on the former site of the Munich branch of Flugwerk Deutschland GmbH, a firm at which Karl Rapp had held a leading position and that had gone into liquidation in the summer of 1913. [4]
This company was then renamed to Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) in 1922. However, the name BMW dates back to 1913, when a company to use the name was founded by Karl Rapp initially as Rapp Motorenwerke.
Nov 30, 2023 · Karl Friedrich Rapp was a German mechanical engineer and the founder of Rapp Motorenwerke, a company that eventually evolved into BMW AG. Karl was born on September 24, 1882, in Ehingen, German Empire, and died on May 26, 1962, in Locarno, Switzerland.
Karl Rapp schied zu diesem Zeitpunkt aus dem Unternehmen aus und widmete sich von da an der Kunst (mit dem Maler Otto Dill unternahm er 1929 eine Afrikareise) [2] sowie naturwissenschaftlichen Studien. Gemeinsam mit Auguste Piccard betrieb er Höhenforschung, außerdem besaß er in Locarno ein privates Observatorium, aus dem sich später das Sonnenobservatorium Specola Solare entwickelte. [3]
Karl Friedrich Rapp, one of the founders of the BMW Group, was born on September 24, 1882, in the German town of Eningen. Little is known about his childhood and youth, as Rapp himself did not like to reminisce about those times. Rapp began his career as an engineer at the company "Züst" around 1908-1911.
Karl Friedrich Rapp was a German founder and owner of the Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH in Munich.
Jun 27, 2024 · Karl Rapp, a name perhaps unfamiliar to many outside the automotive engineering realm, holds a pivotal place in the history of transportation innovation. Born in 1882 in Ehingen, Germany, Rapp’s journey through life would intertwine with the rapid evolution of automotive technology in the early 20th century.
Karl Friedrich Rapp was a German founder and owner of the Rapp Motorenwerke GmbH in Munich. In time this company became BMW AG. He is acknowledged by BMW AG as ...
