Final years of DMG (1924–1929)

By 1924 DMG was adversity from the column war bread-and-butter crisis and beneath burden from the banks, it began the action that would aftereffect in a alliance with Karl Benz's Benz & Cie., Rheinische Gasmotorenfabrik Mannheim in 1926 to anatomy Daimler-Benz AG.

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