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	August Horch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		August Horch (October 12, 1868 - February 3, 1951) was a German engineer and automobile pioneer, he founded the manufacturing firm that would become Audi.
		Horch and Cie in November 1899 in Ehrenfeld, Cologne, Germany.
		Horch was on the supervisory board of Auto Union.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/August_Horch (237 words)

	Horch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Horch was the popular name for high-performance luxury motor cars manufactured in Germany by the company, August Horch and Cie, at the beginning of the 20th century.
		Horch was also later the founder of the German automaker, Audi, which is named after the Latin translation of his surname (latin word for the regional Saxon expression, horch, which is the imperative form of “Listen” - "listen to me" in German).
		Horch cars were considered much advanced and superior to those being then built by Mercedes or Benz (who were then separate manufacturers).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horch (614 words)

	Cartype : Horch logo
		The Horch (the pre-WWII German company that enjoyed a status not unlike Buick in the U.S. and which stands for one of Audi's 4 circles) is an H with the word Horch above it in letters of alternating size.
		August Horch was one of Germany's pioneer car manufacturers who produced 5 hp and 10 hp twin-cylinder cars.
		Horch built high-class, beautiful cars until the war, but in 1945 the original Auto-Union became defunct: the name Horch is still waiting for a rebirth in Germany.
	www.cartype.com /page.cfm?id=847 (522 words)

	Promotex Online - A Century of Tradition
		August Horch (pronounced with the hard German "ch") was born on October 12, 1868 in Winningen, a small town on the Mosel River in southwest Germany.
		Horch's migration to eastern Germany is not surprising.
		Horch AG was absorbed into the new company and the bank arranged for the new company to acquire Wanderer's automobile business.
	www.promotex.ca /articles/cawthon/2004/2004-09-01_article.html (2082 words)

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		The first Horch automobile was produced in 1901 in Zwickau, in former East Germany.
		August Horch was forced to refrain from using his own family name in his new car business.
		As the word "horch!" translates to "listen!" in Old German, August Horch settled on the Latin equivalent of his name – "audi!".
	www.find-ask.com /Encyclopedia/Audi/Audi.html (2862 words)

	History of the Four Rings--Part 1--Audi Auto Union
		August Horch, one of the pioneering figures of Germany's automotive industry, was the figure behind this company.
		August Horch moved to Berlin in the 1920s and was appointed a member of the supervisory board of Auto Union AG in 1932, continuing to be involved in the company's technical development work mainly in his capacity as expert.
		Horch was the clear market leader in the entire deluxe class and it sold one-third more cars than its competitors; for instance, Horch sold 773 cars in Germany in 1932 and was able to export around 300.
	www.seriouswheels.com /art-four-rings-1.htm (1733 words)

	Home > Audi Corporate > Motorsport Highlights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Horch’s victory in the Herkomer Run of 1906, Audi’s series of wins in the 1912, 1913 and 1914 Austrian Alpine Rallies etc. – all these triumphs added to the brands’ reputations.
		August Horch himself drove as a member of the Horch and Audi teams.
		Horch cars were regular winners of "concours d’élégance" events.
	www.audi.ie /audi/ie/en1/company/history/motorsport_highlights.html (180 words)

	The History of the Four Rings - GermanCarFans.com
		August Horch was one of the pioneer figures of automotive engineering.
		However, in 1909 August Horch withdrew from the company he had founded, and set up a new enterprise under the name of "Audi".
		Horch found a new name for the company by translating his name, which means "hark!", "listen!", into Latin.
	www.germancarfans.com /print.cfm?ID=5040721.001 (1056 words)

	Audi New Zealand > Company
		August Horch took part in an Audi for the first time in 1911 and won first prize.
		In 1909 August Horch got into a dispute with the supervisory board of A. Horch and Cie.
		Following the establishment of the company in Cologne in 1899 and its relocation to Reichenbach in Saxony in 1902, the success of Horch cars made it clear that the factory had to be expanded.
	www.audi.co.nz /company/history/chr_1899.asp (519 words)

	Audi Tradition Celebrates 100 Years of Car Manufacturing in Saxony - GermanCarFans.com
		August Horch consolidated this tradition with his second company, founded in April 1910 under the name of Audi Automobilwerke GmbH, Zwickau.
		The 24th Horch Club convention from May 13 to 16, 2004 in Zwickau is likely to be the largest of its kind.
		Says Professor Dr. Peter Kirchberg, President of the Horch Club and Audi Tradition’s historian: “The main purpose of this convention is to remind people of the majestic beauty of Horch automobiles and to pay a worthy tribute to August Horch, whose name they carry.
	www.germancarfans.com /print.cfm/ID/5040505.001/lang/eng (708 words)

	Classic Car Weekly • News • Horch Club celebrates centenary
		A unique and spectacular array of Horch cars will be on display from May 13-16 this year at the Horch Club's 24th annual meeting at Zwickau in the German state of Saxony.
		August Horch founded the company that bore his name in 1900, but in 1904 he moved the works from a factory in Cologne to one in Zwickau — hence the special connection between the 100th anniversary of car production in Saxony and Horch.
		Along with Audi, DKW and Wanderer, Horch became a part of Auto Union in 1932, a name now under the ownership of Audi AG, the company whose heritage wing — Audi Tradition — will be supporting the event by displaying eight cars from its own collection.
	www.classic-car-weekly.co.uk /cgi-bin/news.cgi?article=070902 (280 words)

	LB GERMAN CAR
		Horch would become one of the most important men in European automobile history - he helped found and name the car companies Horch (1899) and Audi (1909).
		August Horch built the elegant 'Audi Type K' for the discriminating tastes of the elite.
		In 1926, the Berlin Automobile Exhibition showcased the new Horch 303.
	lbgermancar.com /LBGC/audi.php (2437 words)

	RM AUCTIONS
		August Horch was one of the pioneers of the automobile industry in Europe.
		Finally, August Horch was reunited with his original company, and made the head of Horch, and given a seat on the board of Auto-Union.
		Horch was one of the great marques of prewar Europe, and one deserving of the finest materials, finishes, and detailing.
	www.rmauctions.com /Restorations/Awards.cfm (1721 words)

	The History of the Four Rings :: car.kak.net ::
		In 1935, Horch's cars were given independent front suspension and a De Dion axle at the rear (double universal joints with a rigid axle and frame-mounted differential).
		The Horch marque was easily able to assert its leading position in the deluxe class; in 1937, it held a market share in excess of 50 percent in the 4 litre and upwards class.
		August 9, 1954 saw the outbreak of a strike in the Bavarian metalworking industry which many inhabitants of Ingolstadt still vividly recall.
	car.kak.net /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2380 (6337 words)

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		Horch was born in 1868 in Winningen at the Moselle.
		The August Horch and Cie factory was founded in 1899 in Cologne.
		August Horch experienced the Second World War and afterwards the end of Horch.
	www.kfz-tech.de /Engl/Horch.htm (390 words)

	HORCH 780 CABRIOLET, AUTO-SALON-SINGEN AG, Raritaeten, Investments, Kapitalanlagen
		In November 1899 August Horch in Cologne honour field created its own enterprise tons able in order ton carry out from now on its rapidly progresses course bent construction projects more unrestrainedly.
		This exclusive piece of collecting tank of the model Horch 780 R Cabriolet might probably one of the best restored and of vehicles of this Marks excellent into the detail, those it into the world tons buy gives.
		But the Horch 12 prepared more neither much joy for its creators nor its owners, why it brought it thus only on approximately 80 pieces, whose the more latter left the work in February 1935.
	www.auto-salon-singen.de /horch_780_cabrio_r_e.htm (498 words)

	Audi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		ugust Horch (1868-1951) left the Horch company he had founded in June 1909 because he felt that the marque should participate in automobile racing but the rest of the board of directors resented this view.
		August Horch left the Audi company in the early 1920's.
		The Wanderer name was dropped, Horch continued a while in trucks and East German products but Audi was reincarnated in 1965 when the last model of DKW, the F102 was equipped with a four-stroke engine.
	www.automedia-online.com /collection/badges/quell/audi.htm (364 words)

	Audi World Site > Company > Horch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although in 1909 August Horch left his Horchwerke in Zwickau, which had been established in 1904, he had none the less laid down a product design philosophy for the cars with his declared aim of building only high-quality, powerful models.
		Horch cars were among the supreme products of the German automobile industry, market leaders in the luxury class and with truly outstanding manufacturing quality standards.
		Horch Type 4-5 hp, two-cylinder engine, two-seater experimental car, 1901, the first Horch with propeller-shaft drive.
	www.audi.com /audi/com/en1/company/history/brands/horch.html (156 words)

	Audi Cars
		Later Horch is at the house of some friends trying to brainstorm a name for the new firm.
		August Horch, the founder of Audi, was one of the first designers to tackle the problems of aerodynamic drag.
		Horch would become one of the most important men in European automobile history he helped found and name the car companies Horch (1899) and Audi (1909).
	www.ukcar.com /history/audi/index.html (3604 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Auto Union Racing Cars
		However by 1909, Horch was at odds with the shareholders, and by 1910 he left and (after losing the legal rights to his company name) set up Audiwerk as a separate company.
		Horch is German for ‘hark’, so he chose the Latin word ‘Audi’, which has a similar meaning.
		On 17 August 1948, with its assets (including the hidden cars and its factories) seized without compensation and dismantled by the Soviet occupying authorities as war reparations, Auto Union AG was deleted from the commercial register.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/ww2/A826517 (2116 words)

	Audi
		Founded by the creator of Horch cars, August Horch, at Zwickau in East Germany, Audi became part of the Auto-Union in 1932, was nationalized in 1945, and became defunct until 1965, when the name "Audi" was resumed at the "new" Auto-Union works at Ingolstadt in Western Germany.
		Horch's first Audi was a 2612cc car; other superb quality four-cylinder models of 3564cc, 4680cc and 5720cc followed.
		Audi joined Wanderer, DKW and Horch in the newly formed Auto Union in 1932, and the 1933 built front-engined 1963cc Audi got a Wanderer six-cylinder ohc engine.
	www.vea.qc.ca /vea/marques1/audi.htm (328 words)

	HORCH 780 CABRIOLET, AUTO-SALON-SINGEN AG, Oldtimer, Raritäten, Investments, Kapitalanlagen
		However already in the course of the yearly 1900 he built the first Horch cars.
		It was just mysctic it seemed that Horch brought out a twelve-cylinder - type to Paris salon in the autumn of 1931.
		The last one of these models Horch 12 left the factory in February 1935.
	www.auto-salon-singen.de /horch_780_cabriolet_blau_e.htm (445 words)

	Audi Company History, from the beginning when August Horch established A. Horch & Cie in Cologne, through the ...
		Audi Company History, from the beginning when August Horch established A. Horch & Cie in Cologne, through the amalgamation of Audi, DKW, Horch and Wanderer to form the Auto Union Company, to the production of the Audi 100, Audi 80 and Audi Quattro and the present-day A2, A4, A6 and A8 models.
		In 1909, August Horch entered into a bitter dispute with the supervisory board of the share - issuing corporation that he had created.
		By 1911, August Horch was entering motorsport events such as the International Austrian Alpine Run.
	www.germansportscars.com /audi.htm (791 words)

	Inventors and entrepreneurs
		August returned him the liberty under conditions and gave him the management of the porcelain manufactory in Meissen.
		August Horch (*12.10.1868 in Winningen/Mosel † 03.02.1951 in Muenchberg)
		August Karolus of physical Institut of the University of Leipzig made the "Kerr effect" practically usable for the fast transmission of pictures.
	www.die-sachsen-kommen.de /en/inventor.htm (1788 words)

	German For Travellers - Audi
		Although by the end of the nineteenth century, Germany already had a number of car manufacturers, August Horch was one of the earliest.
		Horch managed the Benz Motor-Vehicle Assembly Department in Mannheim until 1899, when, after a disagreement with the company, he stepped out to make his own cars.
		So, their popularity increased Horch’s profits continued to rise, but in 1910, August Horch himself was forced out.
	www.germanfortravellers.com /culture/car/audi.htm (520 words)

	Hearse.de: Picture Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		August Horch founded his own Motor car company in 1899.
		Due to copyright reasons, he could not name it "Horch", so he went for the Latin translation "Audi", and this name is still alive today.
		Most Horch cars belonged to the luxury class and were equal in quality and style to cars built by Mercedes and Maybach at the time.
	www.hearse.de /pics11.htm (103 words)

	Audi 200 Parts - Partstrain.com
		Horch made a remarkable contribution to the auto industry by coming up with the first engine with alloy crankcase.
		In 1909, Horch left the company because of a misunderstanding with the supervisory board He later created another company yet still using the Horch name for the vehicles, which furthered the dispute between him and his former company.
		Horch, which is a German name for “Listen,” instead used Audi, a Latin translation of his name.
	www.partstrain.com /ShopByVehicle/AUDI/200?source=yproducts (510 words)

	Origin of the Horsch Name
		He had sold the rights to his first automobile company that used the Horch name, and he was not allowed to use the name Horch in his new company.
		The word horch is the command form of the german verb hören, which means to hear, or listen.
		August Horch's son suggested that his father name the new company Audi, which is the Latin root for the verb, to hear.
	home.swbell.net /davehein/horsch_name.htm (341 words)

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