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Gottlieb Daimler


birthplace museum by Gareth Tarr


Daimler’s birthplace.


nity to visit the respective museums of those two great car manufacturers Porsche and Mercedes- Benz. If you have transport available and a little time, 20 miles to the east of Stuttgart you will reach the town of Schorndorf. At Hollengasse 7 you will find the birthplace of Gottlieb Daimler where, in the building now owned by Mercedes- Benz, there is a free to visit exhibition that tells the story of the great motoring pioneer. Gottlieb Daimler was born on 17th March


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1834 to a baker whose family history in Schorndorf could be traced back to 1660 when the carpenter Fredrick Daumler (another spelling of the family name) was granted citizenship. At 14 Gottlieb started an apprenticeship with a gunsmith, Johann Christolph Wilke, whose home and business were in the house next door. Daimler completed his apprenticeship in 1852 and over the next seven years (including a four- year break in Alsace) he attended the Royal Polytechnic School in Stuttgart, studying various subjects including English. Now his journeying began, returning first to Alsace, then Paris and finally, aged 27, to England where he spent roughly a year and a half gaining valuable


Bust of Gottlieb Daimler.


or many Brooklands Trust Members a trip to the German city of Stuttgart is an opportu-


experience working for companies such as North Moor Foundry in Oldham and Sir Joseph Whitworth’s machine tool factory in Coventry. At this stage he finally settled down to a proper


job, starting as head engineer at the Straub factory in Geislingen and then spent a successful career over the next 20 years, ending up as Technical Director at the world’s largest engine factory in the Deutz district of Cologne. During those years he worked with, and came to know as a friend, Wilhelm Maybach, who was to be a key figure in the next phase of the Daimler story. At the end of June 1882 Daimler left Deutz and


moved to Cannstatt where he started work with Maybach on researching a new engine design concept. His aim was to produce a light, compact, high-speed gasoline engine for multi-purpose use and the fruits of his and Maybach’s labours saw the light of day in a motorcycle in 1885. A year later he produced his first motor carriage. The engines created by Daimler and Maybach were also tested in boats and a dirigible. In 1890 the company of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft was founded, but over the final 10 years of his life Daimler was gradually to lose control of his company to his fellow investors. Indeed he left the company for a time, only returning at the insistence of the company’s English licensee Frederick Simms. Gottlieb Daimler died on 6th March 1900.


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