August horch biography
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August horch biography
August Horch
German automobile engineer, founder of Audi
August Horch (12 October &#; 3 February ) was a German engineer and automobilepioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant that eventually became Audi.
Beginnings
Horch was born in Winningen, Rhenish Prussia. His initial trade was as a blacksmith, and then was educated at Hochschule Mittweida (Mittweida Technical College).
After receiving a degree in engineering, he worked in shipbuilding. Horch worked for Karl Benz from , before founding A.
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Horch & Co. in November , in Ehrenfeld, Cologne, Germany.[1]
Manufacturing
The first Horch automobile was built in The company moved to Reichenbach in and Zwickau in Horch left the company in after a dispute, and set up in competition in Zwickau.
His new firm was initially called Horch Automobil-Werke GmbH, but following a legal dispute over the Horch name, he decided to make another automobile company. (The court decided that Horch was a reg