Wilhelm Maybach

Wilhelm Maybach (help·info) (German pronunciation: ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈmaɪbax; 9 February 1846 – 29 December 1929) was an aboriginal German engine artist and industrialist. During the 1890s he was hailed in France, again the apple centre for car production, as the "King of constructors".

From the backward 19th aeon Wilhelm Maybach, calm with Gottlieb Daimler, developed light, accelerated centralized agitation engines acceptable for land, water, and air use. These were adapted to the world's aboriginal motorcycle, motorboat, and afterwards Daimler's death, to a new auto alien in backward 1902, the Mercedes model, congenital to the blueprint of Emil Jellinek.

Maybach rose to become abstruse administrator of the Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft, or DMG, (and never accepted by the English name of the absolutely abstracted English business, The Daimler Motor Company) but he did not get on able-bodied with its chairmen. As a aftereffect Maybach larboard DMG in 1907 to begin Maybach-Motorenbau GmbH calm with his son Karl in 1909; they bogus Zeppelin engines. Afterwards the signing of the Versailles Treaty in 1919 the aggregation started bearing ample affluence vehicles, branded as "Maybach". The aggregation abutting the German war accomplishment in 1940, abeyance automotive assembly in favour of catchbasin engines, including those for Tiger tanks.

In 1998 Daimler-Benz alloyed with Chrysler Corporation to become DaimlerChrysler. The new aggregation active the Maybach cast name as a affluence accomplish in 2002. On November 25, 2011, Daimler-Benz appear they would cease bearing automobiles beneath the Maybach cast name in 2013