The basis for the DZVR was the artillery tractor Krupp-Daimler 100 PS KD 1 from the First World War.

Since the vehicle was to be used primarily on paved roads, it received front and rear wheels of the same size with solid rubber tires.

The difficulties of the post-war period meant that these vehicles could only be handed over to the state police from about 1924[3] In 1918, the last year of the First World War, the manufacture of armored cars was neglected.

In view of the armed unrest that later flared up everywhere in the German Reich, the law enforcement agencies saw an increased need for such vehicles.

The Reich Army handed over around 50 street armored cars to the police organizations for this purpose.

With the approval of the inter-allied military control commission, armored vehicles could be handed over to the protection and regulatory police of the German federal states.

According to the terms of the treaty, the Reich Army was allowed to own 105 unarmed, armored personnel carriers.

For the police, 31-33 copies of the DZVR were produced as Schupo - Sonderwagen 21 at the Daimler works in Berlin-Marienfelde.