Max Wenkel
Max Wenkel (2 February 1864 – 17 March 1940) was a German automobile pioneer and inventor. Life Like other automobile pioneers Max Wenkel began his career as an engineer and inventor with the construction of bicycles. He built his first pennyfarthing bicycle while still an apprentice engineer, and was soon taking part in races with well-known cyclists such as Willy Tischbein, who later became Director General of the Continental-Caoutchouc and Guttapercha Company. He accompanied the future founder of the Adler (automobile), Adler Bicycle and Automobile Company, Dr. Heinrich Kleyer, on a trip to study the manufacture of bicycles in England at the beginning of the 1880s. Later he was employed at the Duplex bicycle factory in Berlin. In 1895 he successfully experimented with a amphibious cycle, water velocipede on the rivers Leine and Ihme near Hanover. As early as 1899 he exhibited a small car at the First International Exhibition in Berlin. Between 1901 and 1903 Wenkel travelled th ...
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Wenkel Porträt
Wenkel is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Max Wenkel (1864–1943), German automobile pioneer and inventor * Ortrun Wenkel (born 1942), German operatic contralto See also * Wankel *Wenzel Wenzel is a male given name (long version Wenzeslaus) as the German and Old English form of the Czech given name Václav or Venceslav, meaning "praised with glory". Variations are Вячеслав (Ukrainian and Russian), Vencel (Hungarian), Wac� ... {{surname German-language surnames ...
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