Champion

GERMANY

1948-1954

Brand Data

1948 – 1950

Company name: Hermann Holbein Fahrzeugbay
Place: Herrlingen
Country: Germany

1948 – 1950

Company name: Hermann Holbein Fahrzeugbay
Place: Ulm
Country: Germany

1951 – 1952

Company name: Champion Automobilbau GmbH
Place: Paderborn
Country: Germany

1952 – 1954

Company name: Rhenische Automobilfabrik, Hennhofer & Co.
Place: Ludwigshafen
Country: Germany

1954 – 1954

Company name: Rheinische Automobilfabrik, Henning Thorndal & Co.
Place: Ludwigshafen
Country: Germany

Champion was a small German car manufacturer that grew out of the postwar activities of Hermann Holbein, a former test and diploma engineer at BMW, born in 1910. After BMW's Munich operations closed at the end of the war, Holbein settled in Herrlingen near Ulm, where his wife owned a house, and initially worked with a wood-gas-converted Opel Blitz truck before returning to motor racing with rebuilt BMW-based cars. His…

Germany · 1948-1954 · Coupe, Microcar, Roadster · Associated with Hermann Holbein