Steiger was a German car manufacturer founded in 1914 by the Swiss-born Walter Steiger in Burgrieden near Laupheim, roughly 20 kilometers north of Ulm. The company began as a small machine works that repaired aircraft and aircraft engines during the First World War. Steiger and his works manager, the designer Paul Henze, intended from the outset to build automobiles once the war ended. From 1917 Henze worked on the design…