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Until January 27th, 1950 All Ford European operations other than in the USSR Used to connect Dagenham and property of Ford Motor Company Dearborn 55 subsidiary in Ford Motor Company's issued reports to their British shareholders Germany and other European interests were Ford called associated companies 2 These associates have been established to allow substantial holdings by local shareholders Note 1 at the start of World war II actions of Ford Motor Company AG belonging to the German shareholders have been placed under the control of German commissioner for treating enemy property.
The first presence of the Ford Motor Company in Germany was a parts operation set up in Hamburg in 1912 citation needed.
At the end of 1924, the US Ford Motor Company has established a sales office in Berlin in early 1925 received a permit to import 1,000 tractors in 1920 had imposed the government such a high rate that it amounted to a import ban on foreign cars, but this was reversed in October 1925, the movement had obviously been planned by Ford, since August 18, 1925, Ford motor Company Aktiengesellschaft was entered in the Registry of Berlin 3 companies.
In 1925 an assembly plant was built in a rented warehouse in the Westhafen district west port of Berlin, which was good to receive shipments of kits and components through the country's canal network on 1 April 1926, Germany's first model T was assembled product, using imported parts 4 assembling Berlin operation produced 1177 model T in 1926 and another in 2594 over 1927 was the last year of the model T in August 1927 model T production at Berlin ended, and it was nearly a year ago, August 20, 1928, self-production Ford repeated in Berlin, now the Ford model a 3.
In March 1929 General Motors bought a 80 participation controlling stake in Opel reaction of Henry Ford was a quick decision to build a car factory Ford complete in Germany, and by the end of 1929 a site in Cologne Niehl made available by the mayor, Konrad Adenauer 4 was acquired by Ford 5 website 170000 m 2 was originally intended to support an annual production of 250,000 cars, which suggests a continuation of the spirit of boundless optimism that economic seized Western industry in the months leading up to the location of the Wall Street crash of 1929 the factory just beside the Rhine assured that, as with other leading Ford's European production sites in Manchester and Berlin Dagenham, excellent access to existing water transmission network Oct. 2, 1930 Henry Ford, then 67 years old, with Adenauer, aged only 55, laid the foundation stone for Ford has built factory in Cologne, which cost 12 million marks have progressed rapidly the assembly operation in Berlin came to a to April 15, 1931 and May 4, 1931, the first product Cologne Ford is out of the production line 6 the first product vehicle was a Ford model-based truck who, whether by chance or design would also be the first vehicle produced by Ford's new plant in Dagenham England in October 1931 that time an increasing proportion Ford vehicles sold in Germany were also made in Germany rather than being imported model a was joined Cologne in 1932 by model B.
Small car manufacturing began in 1933 with the Ford Köln one year after its UK launch as a model Y With 2453 produced only 1933 the Köln propelled Ford to eighth place in the ranking of sales of German cars this year, 7 but he did not have the same impact in Germany as in Britain, and has been undercutting prices by 8 small Opel.
Ford Rheinland is a unique model for the German market made by installing a four-cylinder engine in a chassis 3285 cc V-8 model B, but most products continued to be drawings Detroit but with local names.
The Eifel is the German version of 10 hp which was sold in Britain as the model C 61.495 Eifels were produced by Ford of Germany between 1935 and 1940, which was well over half of the entire German product in Ford the period, allowing German Ford sales exceed those of Adler in 1938, making it the fourth largest automaker Ford Germany, behind Mercedes-Benz and Opel DKW 7 Eifel was joined in 1939 by the first the long stroke range Taunus.
The company was reorganized in 1939 and changed its name to Ford-Werke 4 With the outbreak of the war, car production continued first with the Taunus made until 1942, but production more soldier resumed Ford-Werke built both conventional trucks and half-tracks Maultier for the German armed forces in particular Ford-Werke manufactured turbines used in the V-2 rockets 9 despite the heavy bombing of Cologne factory has experienced relatively mild and after war production could restart in May 1945 with the manufacture of trucks, the US government has paid $ 1 1 million in return for bombing damage 4.
Ford Research and Advanced Engineering Center in Aachen.
The manufacture of cars restarted in late 1948 with the Taunus Henry Ford II visited the factory in 1948, during his visit to Germany when he was considering a purchase of Volkswagen with which he has not made finally 4.
In 1952, a new appeared Taunus which had much in common with the British Ford products and has been a great success for the production record numbers to achieve the company is now run by Ehrhart Vitger and spent time recruiting new dealers to replace those lost in East Germany, but the company continued to rank third in sales behind Germany VW and Opel 4.
Ford began integrating the operations of its European subsidiaries in 1960 with the launch of the Ford Transit van in 1965, which was a joint development between Ford of Britain and Ford-Werke but it was the Ford Escort in 1968 that really marked the end unique models in European countries following the establishment of Ford of Europe in 1967 from the assets of the British and German operations, but corporations are continuing.
General Motors would follow later, Ford's leadership in the 1970s by integrating its Opel and Vauxhall subsidiaries in GM Europe.
During World War II, the workers slaves employed Ford Werke although not required by the Nazi regime 10 The deployment of the slave labor began before the Ford-Werke was separated from the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan that then America has not yet entered the war.
Robert Hans Schmidt chaired Ford-Werke during World War II, and committed slave labor and illegal manufacture of ammunition, including as manufacturing during the period preceding the entry of the US into the war Once the war ended, despite his carefully-profile efforts to erase the stain no apparent evidence that either Henry Ford II or any other high-level Ford Motor company executive ever raised moral objects rehire Schmidt past, the company had chaired the one of the darkest chapters of the society 11.
In 1942, German soldiers swept into the city of Rostov in the Soviet Union, moving among the homes of families Rostov, forcing them to sign up for a labor registration center Iwanowa Elsa, who was 16 at the time and many other Russians transported in cattle cars in Wuppertal in the western part of Germany, where they were exposed to the visit of the businessmen there, Elsa Iwanowa and others were forced to become slave laborers for Ford-Werke March 4, 1998, fifty-three years after being released from the German Ford plant, Elsa asked Iwanowa justice, filing a class action lawsuit in US district Court STATES against the Ford Motor Company in court 12, Ford acknowledged that Elsa Iwanowa and many others like her were forced to endure a sad and terrible experience at Ford-Werke; Ford, however, argued that cases like Elsa Iwanowa are better adjusted on a nation to nation, government to government 9 In 1999, the court rejected the prosecution Elsa Iwanowa; However, a number of German companies, including GM subsidiary Opel, agreed to contribute 5 1 billion to a fund that would compensate surviving slave laborers 9 Having been the subject of much negative publicity, Ford in March 2000 reverse direction and agreed to contribute 13 million compensation fund.
In October 2004, when Aston Martin was a wholly owned subsidiary of Ford, the company set up a 12,500 square meters dedicated engine production plant 135,000 square feet in the factory Ford Niehl, with capacity to produce up 5000 engines per year 100 specially trained staff as the production of traditional engine Aston Martin Newport Pagnell in the assembly of each unit is entrusted to a single technician with a pool of 30, with V8 and V12 variants assembled in less than 20 hours putting the engine production within the company, the promise was that Aston Martin would be able to produce small series of performance variants engines over 13.
Ford's corporate tagline is Eine Idee weiter which means another idea The German slogan is used in German-speaking countries in Europe.
Was formed the Ford Motor Company Limited Dagenham acquire and continue operating a business continuity automobile builders.
It will also acquire by holding their share capital.
The new company will offer 40 of the capital of all companies Continental to the public in their countries The Company will also acquire the exclusive rights of Ford products in the following regions of the world.
United Kingdom and Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
Asia Minor, Iraq, Persia, Afghanistan, Egypt and some other parts of Africa.
And for the benefit of all inventions of patents, designs, models owned by the Ford Motor Company of America and Henry Ford.
Ford Germany, Ford Germany, Ford Motor Company, Ford Motor Company Limited.