Andreas Flocken (born 6 February 1845 in

Albersweiler Albersweiler is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstraße ("Southern Wine Road") district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is part of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Annweiler am Trifels. History Middle Ages The village was first mentioned in 1 ...

, Rheinpfalz; died 29 April 1913 in

Coburg Coburg ( , ) is a Town#Germany, town located on the Itz (river), Itz river in the Upper Franconia region of Bavaria, Germany. Long part of one of the Thuringian states of the Ernestine duchies, Wettin line, it joined Bavaria by popular vote only ...

) was a German

entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value in ways that generally entail beyond the minimal amount of risk (assumed by a traditional business), and potentially involving values besides simply economic ones. An entreprene ...

and

inventor An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition, idea, or process. An invention may be an improvement upon a machine, product, or process for increasing efficiency or lowering cost. It may also be an entirely new concept. If an ...

Life

Until 1868 Flocken worked for German company Heinrich Lanz AG in

Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German language, Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (), is the List of cities in Baden-Württemberg by population, second-largest city in Baden-Württemberg after Stuttgart, the States of Ger ...

. Then he worked for company ''Schoppers'' in

Zeulenroda Zeulenroda-Triebes () is a German town in the district of Greiz in the state of Thuringia. Zeulenroda-Triebes is situated in the south of Greiz in the mountains of the Thuringian Slate Mountains (Thüringer Schiefergebirge), on the border with S ...

. Since 1879, Flocken and his family lived in Coburg. In 1880, Flocken started his own company in Coburg. The

Flocken Elektrowagen The Flocken Elektrowagen is a four-wheeled electric car designed by Andreas Flocken (1845–1913), manufactured in 1888 by Maschinenfabrik A. Flocken in Coburg. It is regarded as the first real electric car. History In 1888, Flocken added a depar ...

of 1888 by German inventor Andreas Flocken is regarded as the first real

electric car An electric car or electric vehicle (EV) is a passenger car, passenger automobile that is propelled by an electric motor, electric traction motor, using electrical energy as the primary source of propulsion. The term normally refers to a p ...

of the world.Neue Presse Coburg: Elektroauto in Coburg erfunden (German)
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Literature

* Harald Linz, Halwart Schrader: ''Die Internationale Automobil-Enzyklopädie.'' United Soft Media Verlag GmbH, München 2008, * Halwart Schrader: ''Deutsche Autos 1885–1920.'' Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Flocken, Andreas 19th-century German inventors German electrical engineers Businesspeople from Mannheim People from Südliche Weinstraße People from Coburg 1845 births 1913 deaths German businesspeople in transport Engineers from Rhineland-Palatinate