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Opel-Mausoleum in Rüsselsheim. Adam Opel was born on 9 May 1837 to Wilhelm, a locksmith, and his wife in Rüsselsheim. Opel studied with his father until the age of 20, when he received his travel pass. The pass enabled him to be an apprentice locksmith in Belgium, in Liège, Brussels, and then Paris, where he arrived in mid-1858.
The company was founded in Rüsselsheim, Hesse, Germany, on 21 January 1862, by Adam Opel.In the beginning, Opel produced sewing machines.Opel [10] launched a new product in 1886: he began to sell high-wheel bicycles, also known as penny-farthings.
The Opel Adam won the Red Dot Car Design Award in April 2013. [6] In November 2012, Auto Zeitung readers in Germany voted for Opel Adam as the number one city car . [ 7 ] In the 38th Readers’ Choice Award of the trade magazine Auto Motor und Sport , the car won the mini car category with 24.2 percent of the votes, beating the Volkswagen Up ...
Between 1990 and 2009 the plant produced 2.5 million vehicles. In 2010, Opel decided to build its new city car at the production plant. The first such city car, called the Opel Adam was produced in January 2013. [5] Opel Eisenach manufactured the Opel Corsa between 1993 and 2019. Production of both Corsa E and Adam ended in May 2019.
Opel. Above all, Rüsselsheim is known for its car manufacturer Opel. The founder, Adam Opel, began as a trainee mechanic and founded a sewing machine factory. The first cars were built in 1899, after Opel's death, when the company was owned and operated by Opel's widow and their five sons. Hyundai (and Hyundai-Kia European Technical Center)
Assembly facilities at the Brandenburg Opel plant (1936) The Opelwerk Brandenburg was a truck vehicle assembly plant, located in Brandenburg an der Havel, Germany.Built within seven months, it was opened by Adam Opel AG in November 1935 on the re-armament initiative of the Nazi government in order to ensure supplies of Opel Blitz trucks for the Wehrmacht armed forces.
In 2012 Lohscheller moved to Adam Opel AG, where he became a board member. [3] In June 2017, he was promoted to chief executive officer of the car manufacturer, now transformed into Opel Automobile GmbH, succeeding Karl-Thomas Neumann. Mid-July 2021 he announced his departure from Opel to pursue a career outside the Stellantis group. [4]
Karl-Friedrich Stracke was President, GM Europe and CEO of Adam Opel AG. Stracke, who was born on June 22, 1956, in the German town of Lichtenfels-Goddelsheim, draws on 30 years of experience with Opel and GM. He began his career as a mechanical engineer in the area of body-in-white construction in 1979.