August Horch

Presentation by: Bahaa Abou Mansour Dar Al Hayat 2022

You might be
wondering
who August
Horch is?
August Horch is the finder of the Audi.
He was born on October 12, 1868.
 Random facts about him
• Founder of Audi was a young German
engineer
• started working as a blacksmith
• after receiving his degree in engineering, he
worked in shipbuilding
• Then worked under Karl Benz founder of
Mercedes Benz car manufacturing company
worked under Benz for three years before
starting he own venture
When did he find his first
car?
Founded his first automobile
company in cologne in 1899
shortly after that in 1909 he set up
a new automobile company in
Zwickau which has been operating
under the name Audi Werke AG
Zwickau since 1910 this marked
the birth of the modern company
name.
 Remarkable Success
Audis current success in the global luxury automobile
market and its credible plan to top rivals like Mercedes
Benz and BMW in the sales race are extraordinary
considering this automakers complex history that dates
back more than a 100 years
And you might ask what cologne, the city we
mentioned earlier, is?

Cologne is a 2000-year-old city spanning the Rhine

river in western Germany