Audi is a German manufacturer of luxury cars based in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, and is now a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group. It was founded in Zwickau by the engineer August Horch, who had left the car company he had set up under his own name after a disagreement. As he could not use his surname for a new firm, the name Audi, the Latin translation of the German word horch, meaning listen, was proposed by the son of a business partner. In 1932 the firm merged with DKW, Horch and Wanderer to form Auto Union, and its four rings emblem stands for these four companies. After the Second World War the company was re-established in West Germany, and it was bought by Volkswagen in the 1960s.
Before and after
- 16 October 1908Birth of Enver Hoxha
- 28 November 1908Birth of Claude Lévi-Strauss
- 28 December 19081908 Messina earthquake
- 1909Rise of Futurism
- 1909Founding of Audi AG
- 1909Founding of Coritiba F.C.
- 1909Construction of Milan–Malpensa "Silvio Berlusconi" Airport
- 1909Fritz Haber synthesises ammonia from air
- 1909Mohorovicic discovers the boundary between the crust and the mantle
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The era
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