Wanderer

Industry	Automobiles
Fate	merged into Auto Union (only car division)
Founded	1896 by Johann Baptist Winklhofer und Richard Adolf Jaenicke
Defunct	1945
Headquarters	Saxony, Germany

Wanderer was a German manufacturer of bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles, vans and other machinery. Established as Winklhofer & Jaenicke in 1896 by Johann Baptist Winklhofer und Richard Adolf Jaenicke, the company used the Wanderer brand name from 1911, making civilian automobiles until 1941 and military vehicles until 1945.

History

Winklhofer & Jaenicke, the business that became eventually known for its Wanderer cars, was established in 1896 in Chemnitz. They built motorcycles from 1902 and automobiles from 1903. The Wanderer brand was chosen in 1911 for overseas exports and was soon adopted for domestic sales.

The first two- or three-seater models used four-cylinder 1145 cc and 1220 cc engines. The 1220 cc model lasted until 1925. The first six-cylinder model appeared in 1928. By 1926, when Wanderer introduced a successful Typ 10, the company was making 25 vehicles a day; parts were made at the old plant in Chemnitz and assembled at the 1927 built new site in Siegmar, delivered by rail right to the assembly line. Motorcycle production continued in Chemnitz alone.

During the Great Depression, in 1929, the company owner, Dresdner Bank, sold the motorcycle business to František Janeček, and in 1932 divested the rest of Wanderer. The car division with its Siegmar factory became part of Auto Union together with Horch, Audi and DKW. In this quartet, Horch was positioned as the luxury brand, DKW built cheap two-stroke cars, Audi and Wanderer competed in different segments of mid-priced, technologically advanced small cars (heaviest, 6-cylinder Wanderers reached 1.5 tons dry weight). Wanderers of Nazi period acquired a trademark radiator design, shaped as a heraldic shield.

The next model W17 7/35 PS was propelled by a new 1692 cc OHV four-cylinder engine developed by Ferdinand Porsche. In 1933 the new Audi Front was equipped with the Wanderer W22 engine, a 1950 cc OHV six-cylinder, also a construction of F. Porsche. The top model from 1936 to 1939 was W50, propelled by a 2257 cc six-cylinder engine. From 1937 on there were also sporting fours (W24 and W25) and another six-cylinder model of 2632 cc (W23), propelled by new Flathead engines constructed by Auto Union itself. Wanderer cars were always admired for their high quality and sporting character. During World War II all civilian production was replaced in 1941 with licence-built military vehicles, such as Steyr 1500A light truck. A subcamp of Flossenbürg concentration camp, KZ Siegmar-Schonau, was operated during the war to provide slave labour for the Wanderer vehicle plants. From 1943 on the Auto Union Siegmar plant produced Maybach HL230 V12 engines, used in many heavy tanks of the German Wehrmacht.

The Wanderer Siegmar plant (now Chemnitz) of Auto Union were destroyed in early 1945, closing this chapter in the history of automobiles. Post-war efforts to restore East German auto industry concentrated on Auto Union facilities in Zwickau and Zschopau: Wanderer car production never recovered, with Auto Union relocating to Ingolstadt, West Germany, where the company was rebuilt based using the DKW and ultimately, the Audi brand.

Automobile models

Type	Years	Engine type	Displacement	Engine power	Top speed
W1 (5/12 PS) “Puppchen”	1912–1913	straight-4	1147 cc	12 PS (8,8 kW)	70 km/h (43 mph)
W2 (5/15 PS) “Puppchen”	1913–1914	straight-4	1222 cc	15 PS (11 kW)	70 km/h (43 mph)
W3 (5/15 PS) “Puppchen”	1914–1919	straight-4	1286 cc	15 PS (11 kW)	70 km/h (43 mph)
W4 (5/15 PS) “Puppchen”	1919–1924	straight-4	1306 cc	17 PS (12,5 kW)	78 km/h (48 mph)
W6 (6/18 PS)	1921–1923	straight-4	1551 cc	18 PS (13,2 kW)	80 km/h (50 mph)
W9 (6/24 PS)	1923–1925	straight-4	1551 cc	24 PS (17,6 kW)	85 km/h (53 mph)
W8 (5/20 PS) “Puppchen”	1925–1926	straight-4	1306 cc	20 PS (14,7 kW)	78 km/h (48 mph)
W10/I (6/30 PS)	1926–1928	straight-4	1551 cc	30 PS (22 kW)	85 km/h (53 mph)
W10/II (8/40 PS)	1927–1929	straight-4	1940 cc	40 PS (29 kW)	95 km/h (59 mph)
W11 (10/50 PS)	1928–1930	straight-6	2540 cc	50 PS (37 kW)	90 km/h (56 mph)
W10/IV (6/30 PS)	1930–1932	straight-4	1563 cc	30 PS (22 kW)	85 km/h (53 mph)
W11 (10/50 PS)	1930–1933	straight-6	2540 cc	50 PS (37 kW)	97 km/h (60 mph)
W14 (12/65 PS)	1931–1932	straight-6	2970–2995 cc	65 PS (48 kW)	105 km/h (65 mph)
W15 (6/30 PS)	1932	straight-4	1563 cc	30 PS (22 kW)	85 km/h (53 mph)
W17 (7/35 PS)	1932–1933	straight-6	1690 cc	35 PS (25,7 kW)	90 km/h (56 mph)
W20 (8/40 PS)	1932–1933	straight-6	1950 cc	40 PS (29 kW)	95 km/h (59 mph)
W21 / W235 / W35	1933–1936	straight-6	1690 cc	35 PS (25,7 kW)	95 km/h (59 mph)
Wanderer W23S	1937–1939	straight-6	2651 cc	62 PS	90 km/h (56 mph)
W22 / W240 / W40	1933–1938	straight-6	1950 cc	40 PS (29 kW)	100 km/h (62 mph)
W245 / W250	1935	straight-6	2257 cc	50 PS (37 kW)	100 km/h (62 mph) – 105 km/h (65 mph)
W45 / W50 / Spezial W51	1936–1938	straight-6	2257 cc	55 PS (40 kW)	100 km/h (62 mph) – 105 km/h (65 mph)
W25K	1936–1938	straight-6	1950 cc	85 PS (62,5 kW)	145 km/h (90 mph)
W52	1937	straight-6	2651 cc	62 PS (45,6 kW)	115 km/h (71 mph)
W24	1937–1940	straight-4	1767 cc	42 PS (30,9 kW)	105 km/h (65 mph)
W26	1937–1940	straight-6	2651 cc	62 PS (45,6 kW)	115 km/h (71 mph)
W23	1937–1941	straight-6	2651 cc	62 PS (45,6 kW)	105 km/h (65 mph)

                            1898 Wanderer-annonce1911 Wanderer Püppchen                               1915 Wanderer W1 Puppchen1913 Wanderer W2 Puppchen 5-15          1914 Wanderer W2 Puppchen1913 Wanderer W3 5-121904 Wanderer W2 Puppchen 5-15

1911 Wanderer Serbia1911 Wanderer W 1 Puppchen1910 Wanderer 3PS1913 Wanderer W2 Puppchen 5-15   1915 Wanderer 4 pk   1917 Wanderer 2hp 1

  1920 Wanderer V 2

1921 Wanderer 4,5 616ccm 12PS

1921 Wanderer 5-15 W4 Puppchen1923 Wanderer W 4 5-15 PS Puppchen1925 Wanderer W8 Puppchen1926-30 Wanderer-W10 6-30 PS, 77k1927 Wanderer W10-I 11928 Wanderer W 10 8-40 PS Limousine1928 Wanderer W111928-32 Wanderer W11 10-50 PS1929 Wanderer W10-IV 6-30PS

1929 Wanderer W11 Feuerwehrfahrzeug 11930 Wanderer W10 IV 6-30PS1931 Wanderer W14 (only 1 built)

19(3)2 Wanderer W15 7-35 ?                                           1933 Wanderer W 21 Limousine1934 Wanderer – Auto Union W21 from 1934. 6-cyliner engine, displacement 1 681 cm³, output 35 hp at 3500 1min. Top speed 90 km-h. 4 651 units produced1934 Wanderer W 22 Cabriolet1934 Wanderer W 22 Limousine1934-40 Wanderer 12 AS Mopped

1935 Wanderer W 22 Cabriolet

1936 1911-39 wanderer cz1936 Auto Union Wanderer W25K1936 Wanderer W 40 Cabriolet                               1936 Wanderer W221936 Wanderer W24 Tourenwagen

1936 Wanderer w25k 1936 Wanderer W40              1936 Wanderer W51 limo1936 Wanderer W51 Cabrio1936-38 Wanderer W45 C2b Cariolet1937 Wanderer W 24 Limousine 6 Fenster

1937 Wanderer W 25 K Roadster1937 Wanderer W 52 Cabriolet1937 Wanderer W241938 Wanderer W 23 Cabriolet1938 Wanderer W 24 Limousine 6 Fenster(windows)

1938 Wanderer W 52 Cabriolet

1938 wanderer W23 cabrio d dac

              1938 Wanderer W24

1938 Wanderer W24k

1938 NSU Wanderer1938-39 Wanderer Stromlinie Spezial1939 MHV Wanderer W26L1939 Wanderer W241939 Wanderer W261939 Wanderer W50 Cabriolet 2-Sitzer

logo1943 Wanderer W 51 der Wehrmacht, Rusland

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