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this article accompanies the https://www.publimetro.com.mx/mx/aut...s-porsche.html image that is signed from hahn! Can someone explain this document to me a bit? Salds
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below the image the following is said.
"70 anos de la planta de Zuffenhausen, título oficial, primera entrega / Cortesía"
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This is the order for the very first delivered car out of the zuffenhausen factory
Porsche Sports order
Hahn Motorfahrzeuge
Stuttgart Ost, Hauffstrasse 5
Ordered on the basis of the conditions overleaf,
the acknowledgment of which is hereby confirmed by receiving a copy of this purchase application
Dr. Ottomar Domnick
Stuttgart, Gerokstraße 75
orders a
porsche sport sedan
in standard design or equipment
other regulations: color according to specifications
Non-binding delivery time: April 1950?
Price ex factory 9.850.-
Payment terms cash upon delivery
Stuttgart November 29, 1949
Retention of title: The vehicle remains the property of the seller until the entire purchase price including ancillary costs has been repaid.
Subsidiary agreements, subsequent changes to this application and any assurances require the seller's written confirmation to be valid.
This order is considered accepted if it has not been rejected by the seller within a period of 4 weeks after receipt
and other small printed stuff
Ottomar Wolfgang Johannes Domnick - * 20. April 1907 in Greifswald; † 14. Juni 1989 in Nürtingen - came from an upper-class legal family. Famous musicians like the conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler and the pianist Edwin Fischer frequented his parents' house. The father was a passionate violinist and organizer of the Greifswald music festivals.
As a moderate student, he began an apprenticeship as a mechanic in an agricultural machinery factory and in a car workshop after completing secondary school. For a year he was a student on a manor. He then attended a boarding school in Berlin and then made up for his Abitur at the grammar school in Demmin. From 1927-33 he studied medicine in Berlin, Munich, Greifswald, Innsbruck, Paris and Rostock. In 1937 he received his doctorate "summa cum laude" on "Foreign bodies in the organism". He completed his specialist training in neurology and psychiatry at the Frankfurt University Psychiatric Clinic.
In 1938 he opened his first private practice in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt. At the beginning of the war he was called up for military service and served on the Eastern Front from 1941. He returned from the war in 1945, emaciated, hungry like others, but he was driven by the “hunger for art”. The abstract pictures are his new territory.
Domnick wrote scripts and produced documentaries and feature films. He won the Federal Film Prize in 1957 with the avant-garde film "Jonas" and the "Bambi" award in the same year. He played the cello, held concerts and collected abstract works of art from the time after the Second World War. In 1967 he had Paul Stohrer build a museum for his collection in the middle of a landscape conservation area in Nürtingen, which is now open to the public.
In addition to music and film, Domnick was also interested in sports cars. On May 26, 1950, he laid the foundation for the Porsche tradition of personally picking up customer cars at the factory in Zuffenhausen when he received his Porsche 356 sports car in fish silver with chassis number 5001. For the specialist in neurology and psychiatry, it was a dream to be the first Porsche customer in Germany. Domnick was 43 years old at the time.
In 1972 Domnick was a participant in Documenta 5 in Kassel in the Film Show department: Reflection Film
The Domnick Cello Prize, which has been awarded to young soloists since 1982, goes back to Domnick. In 1957 Domnick was awarded the German Critics' Prize. In 1988 he received the gold film tape for many years of outstanding work in German film. 1979 Ottomar Domnick was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg.
His brother Hans Domnick was a German film producer and documentary filmmaker.
Thanks for the write up. Is there a “reason” Hahn sold the first Porsche out of Zuffenhausen or just a random coincidence? Is there a write up about that dealer somewhere?
Richard
ºººººthat's the right question. What I read in an article was that at that time there were no official porsche dealers. HAhn, who was working with VW at that time, is taken and the name is crossed out in the document. Is it possible that it was delivered in hahn due to its proximity to the factory? I have really enjoyed reading the story you write! Before, if you were smart, you were worth gold .....Quote:
Originally Posted by preS
https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...AAAElFTkSuQmCC
https://www.hahn-gruppe.de/de-de/unt...mensgeschichte
updated link per 15.03.2023 due to new website of Hahn
The decade of departure
The company founder Ernst Hahn builds a stable foundation for the future in difficult times with a lot of optimism and Swabian entrepreneurial spirit.
1919: "I started my business on July 1, 1919 as a car repair shop and expanded it over the years by also taking up the trade in motor vehicles and the manufacture of new trailers. I currently employ 30 workers and four employees."
With this text, Ernst Hahn applies for his company "Ernst Hahn Autohaus und Fahrzeugbau" to be entered in the commercial register. The great-grandfather of the current head of the company went into business for himself as a master mechanic after completing his apprenticeship at Daimler and serving in the First World War.
In order to get the money to set up the company, Ernst Hahn's parents sell the family's own vineyards. In the first few years after it was founded, the company in Cannstatter Kühlbrunnengasse was initially an independent car repair workshop. With the active help of his wife Marie, not only does the company prosper, but Ernst Hahn also acquires an important name in the industry.
The decade of upheaval
Fritz Hahn was a man from the very beginning with a technical understanding and commercial vision.
1931: After studying mechanical engineering, his son Fritz Hahn works in the Porsche office in Stuttgart for "Design and Consulting for Engine and Vehicle Construction" and later heads the testing department.
1932: The decisive initiative of Ernst Hahn leads to the founding of the motor vehicle trade guild in southern Germany.
1934: Ferdinand Porsche announces his idea of building a “Volkswagen” at the opening of the Berlin Motor Show. In the same year, the Dr. Ing.h.c. F. Porsche GmbH received the official contract to design and build the car. Fritz Hahn, together with Ferry Porsche, played a key role in the development of the Volkswagen. The post-war version went down in automotive history as the legendary “pretzel beetle”.
1939: The company is entered in the Waiblingen commercial register. This year the company with a company size of 30 workers and four employees and an area of approx. 450 m² achieved a turnover of 500,000 Reichsmarks.
From today's perspective, it is difficult to imagine how Hahn's new car business would go about 60 years ago. After the war, the founding son Fritz Hahn took the train to Wolfsburg to receive the first new Volkswagen in person and against cash payment!
The decade of expansion
In the tradition of the company founder, Fritz Hahn consistently continues the business and continues to expand the company.
1940: The move to Fellbach takes place because further expansion of the business in Bad Cannstatt is no longer possible. Fritz Hahn opened up new dimensions for the company after completing his studies at the mechanical engineering school in Esslingen. In the design office of Dr. Ing.h.c. F. Porsche KG, he works to identify racing-related weaknesses in Porsche vehicles, to remedy them and to advance construction development. When he received permission to manufacture the axles with torsion bar suspension according to the Porsche patent, it was the beginning of a rapid development.
On February 20, 1945, Ernst Hahn wrote to his son from the hospital: "Since I do not know how my health will continue, I ask you to take over the business from now on ..."
Ernst Hahn was head master and state guild master of Württemberg-Hohenzollern until 1945. This office is then taken over by his son Fritz, who is also chairman of the Baden-Württemberg motor vehicle trade and industry association. After the end of the war, the damage must be repaired and the reconstruction accelerated. In addition to vehicle construction, the family will soon be resuming car workshop operations.
1947: Fritz Hahn is now gaining an important reputation in the industry, so that the Volkswagen factory offers him the general agency and retail contract for North Württemberg after production has resumed. In the same year the automobile business becomes independent in the company "Hahn Motorfahrzeuge GmbH".
1948: Fritz Hahn and a few dealer colleagues enable the start of series production of Porsche vehicles in Zuffenhausen.
Porsche and Piech, the owners of Porsche Konstruktionen GesmbH, did negociate a contract with the CEO of VW, Mr. Nordhoff. The most important parts of the contract include the license fee for every Beetle built, the approval to build a sports car based on the Beetle (the Porsche 356), and sales via what will later be the global VW network, as well as agreements on technical services from the Porsche design office and finally the VW general importer contract for Austria. This extensive contract is signed in Bad Reichenhall by Ferdinand Porsche, Ferry Porsche, Louise Piëch and Anton Piëch and by VW General Director Nordhoff.
The decade of enlargement
Fritz Hahn continues to expand the business with Porsche and industrial engines.
1950: Porsche starts production and through the old connection between Fritz Hahn and Prof. Ferdinand Porsche, "Hahn Motorfahrzeuge GmbH", founded three years earlier, also receives the general agency and retail contract for Porsche. Production begins with prepayment for the Porsche vehicles.
1951: The first Hahn branch in Friedrichstrasse opens its doors. Another in the Erbsenbrunnengasse in Bad Cannstatt, which is replaced by a new company in 1979.
1952: In that year the used car company Friedrichsgaragen opens in Stuttgart.
1953: The Volkswagen factory sells modified vehicle engines as industrial engines. Hahn receives representation for Württemberg.
1956: The Hahn branch in Stuttgart-Degerloch opens.