Rumpler-Luftfahrzeugbau GmbH, Rumpler-Werke, usually known simply as Rumpler was a German aircraft and automobile manufacturer.

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Founded in

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by Austrian engineer

Edmund Rumpler Edmund Elias Rumpler (4 January 1872 – 7 September 1940) was an Austrian automobile and aircraft designer. Born in Vienna, then Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Austria),Wise 1974, p.1964 he worked mainly in Germany.Lyons 1988, p.73 An autom ...

in 1909 as Rumpler Luftfahrzeugbau.Gunston 1993, p.259 The firm originally manufactured copies of the

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monoplane under the ''Rumpler Taube'' trademark, but turned to building reconnaissance biplanes of its own design through the course of the First World War, in addition to a smaller number of fighters and bombers.Kroschel & Stützer 1994, p.100 The company, from the beginning a limited liability concern (

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), became a

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in the style of ''Rumpler-Werke AG'' on 21 September 1917 with a capitalization of 3,5 million Marks. In 1918, 3300 people worked for RumplerRumpler 1919, p.63 at the Berlin headquarter and a subsidiary in

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, the ''Bayerische Rumpler-Werke AG''. As a consequence of the

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Germany was not allowed to manufacture aircraft. Rumpler instead attempted to secure a place in the post-war automobile market, which lead to the development of a vehicle with the first effective aerodynamic chassis, the

Rumpler Tropfenwagen The Rumpler Tropfenwagen ("Rumpler drop car", named after its raindrop shape) was a car developed by Austrian engineer Edmund Rumpler. The Tropfenwagen Aerodynamics Rumpler, born in Vienna, was known as a designer of aircraft when at the 1921 Ber ...

, on the premises of its Augsburg subsidiary. It was shown at the 1921 Internationale Automobil Ausstellung which then took place in Berlin. The car failed to attract sufficient sales and the ''Bayerische Rumpler-Werke AG'' went into receivership in 1923, followed by the ''Rumpler-Werke AG'' in Berlin in 1925. The assets were liquidated in 1926, with the Augsburg premises bought 30 July 1926 by the ''Bayerische Flugzeugwerke'', predecessor of

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Aircraft

Rumpler 6B The Rumpler 6B was a German floatplane fighter aircraft, fighter designed during World War I by Rumpler Flugzeugwerke for the Imperial German Navy's () Naval Air Service (). The 6B1 was a single-seat version of the Rumpler C.I Reconnaissance air ...

* Rumpler B.I * Rumpler C.I * Rumpler C.III * Rumpler C.IV *

Rumpler C.V The Rumpler C.III (factory designation 6A 5) was a biplane military reconnaissance aircraft built in Germany during World War I.Taylor 1989, p.771 Development It was a development of the Rumpler C.I design incorporating many aerodynamic refi ...

Rumpler C.VI The Rumpler C.VI was a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft used by the Germans during the First World War World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global co ...

* Rumpler C.VII *

Rumpler C.VIII The Rumpler C.VIII was a German single-engine biplane advanced trainer manufactured by Rumpler Flugzeugwerke, in Berlin Johannisthal in 1917. Design and development The C.VIII variant was developed with the intention of providing an operational ...

Rumpler C.X The Rumpler C.X, produced under the company designation Rumpler 8C 14, was a German two-seat observation aircraft. It was developed from the earlier Rumpler 8C 13 prototype by Rumpler in early 1918. The prototype A prototype is an early sa ...

* Rumpler D.I * Rumpler G.I * Rumpler G.II * Rumpler G.III

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* * * {{Rumpler aircraft Companies of Prussia Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Germany Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Germany Manufacturing companies based in Berlin *

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