Wilhelm Maybach

WILHELM MAYBACH
* 9 February 1846 in Heilbronn; † 29 December 1929 in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt.

August Wilhelm Maybach is assigned to Gottlieb Daimler as an assistant during his training as a technical draughtsman and designer and works closely with him in the following years. Together with him he developed, among other things, the first four-wheeled motor car in 1886, for which they built an engine into a carriage.

The designer of the first Mercedes
In 1900 he designed the Mercedes-Simplex, a revolutionary racing car with a 35 hp four-cylinder engine, which his client Emil Jellinek named after his daughter Mercedes. Thus the "Mercedes brand" was born. The "Mercedes myth" is then founded on its phenomenal successes on the racetracks.

Airships and luxury cars

Maybach founded his own company in 1909 to manufacture Zeppelin engines for Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin. Under the name Maybach-Motorenbau GmbH he eventually developed the famous Maybach luxury cars. Today, as the Maybach brand, they belong to Daimler AG and transport their owners in the most luxurious manner.