Rumpler

Rumpler-Luftfahrzeugbau GmbH, Rumpler-Werke, usually known simply as Rumpler was a German aircraft and automobile manufacturer.

[1] The firm originally manufactured copies of the Etrich Taube monoplane under the Rumpler Taube trademark, but turned to building reconnaissance biplanes of its own design through the course of the First World War, in addition to a smaller number of fighters and bombers.

[1][2] The company, from the beginning a limited liability concern (GmbH), became a Aktiengesellschaft in the style of Rumpler-Werke AG on 21 September 1917 with a capitalization of 3,5 million Marks.

In 1918, 3300 people worked for Rumpler[3] at the Berlin headquarter and a subsidiary in Augsburg, the Bayerische Rumpler-Werke AG.

The assets were liquidated in 1926, with the Augsburg premises bought 30 July 1926 by the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke, predecessor of BMW.