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The Maybach name honors Wilhelm Maybach, one of the most important engineers of the automotive age. Maybach worked closely with Gottlieb Daimler in the late 19th century to build the first internal combustion-powered automobiles and went on to design the first Mercedes car in 1901. Considered the first modern car, the 1901 Mercedes was a tremendous leap ahead of horseless carriages of the day and became the basic blueprint for all cars to follow. Wilhelm's son Karl was ... an engineering mastermind who, from 1921 to 1941, developed and put the Maybach name on 1,800 of the finest custom-built luxury cars in the world.
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The Maybach brand was bought by Mercedes in 1966, at this time the company only produced diesel engines. The Maybach cars were produced to customer order between 1921 and 1941. Mercedes-Benz and Maybach have always had a great deal in common: Wilhelm Maybach was the technical director on the Board of the Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (DMG), as it was then known, and in 1901 developed the first ever Mercedes which was to become the blueprint for all modern-day passenger cars. Gottlieb Daimler had first made the acquaintance of the brilliant designer in 1865 in Reutlingen and later worked together with him at Maschinenbaufabrik in Karlsruhe and Gasmotorenfabrik in Deutz. After ten years working in the Rhineland, with Maybach's accomplishments already including preparing the four-stroke engine invented by Nikolaus Otto for series production, Daimler and Maybach returned to the South of Germany in 1882. Here, they worked together in the garden shed of Daimler's villa in Cannstatt near Stuttgart, which over the course of the next few years was to become a hotbed of groundbreaking inventions in the field of automotive engineering.
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Wilhelm Maybach was born in 1846 in the town of Heilbronn, Germany. Orphaned at the age of ten, he attended a progressive orphanage called the "Bruderhaus" in Reutlingen. It was there that nineteen-year-old Wilhelm met Gottlieb Daimler, the design studio director of the Bruderhaus, and the mentor who would change both of their lives.
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Wilhelm Maybach was born on February 9, 1846 in Heilbronn where he grew up as one of six children. The family later moved to Stuttgart but by the age of ten he had been made an orphan.
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