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

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by Austrian engineer

Edmund Rumpler Edmund Elias Rumpler (4 January 1872 – 7 September 1940) was an Austrian automobile and aircraft designer. Born in Vienna, then Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Austria),Wise 1974, p.1964 he worked mainly in Germany.Lyons 1988, p.73 An automo ...

in 1909 as Rumpler Luftfahrzeugbau.Gunston 1993, p.259 The firm originally manufactured copies of the

Etrich Taube The Etrich ''Taube'', also known by the names of the various later manufacturers who built versions of the type, such as the Rumpler ''Taube'', was a pre-World War I monoplane aircraft. It was the first military aeroplane to be mass-produced in ...

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.Kroschel & Stützer 1994, p.100 The company, from the beginning a limited liability concern ( GmbH), became a

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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 RumplerRumpler 1919, p.63 at the Berlin headquarter and a subsidiary in

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, the ''Bayerische Rumpler-Werke AG''. As a consequence of the

Treaty of Versailles The Treaty of Versailles (french: Traité de Versailles; german: Versailler Vertrag, ) was the most important of the peace treaties of World War I. It ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June ...

Germany was not allowed to manufacture aircraft. Rumpler instead attempted to secure a place in the post-war automobile market, which lead to the development of a vehicle with the first effective aerodynamic chassis, the

Rumpler Tropfenwagen The Rumpler Tropfenwagen ("Rumpler drop car", named after its raindrop shape) was a car developed by Austrian engineer Edmund Rumpler. The Tropfenwagen Aerodynamics Rumpler, born in Vienna, was known as a designer of aircraft when at the 1921 Ber ...

, on the premises of its Augsburg subsidiary. It was shown at the 1921 Internationale Automobil Ausstellung which then took place in Berlin. The car failed to attract sufficient sales and the ''Bayerische Rumpler-Werke AG'' went into receivership in 1923, followed by the ''Rumpler-Werke AG'' in Berlin in 1925. The assets were liquidated in 1926, with the Augsburg premises bought 30 July 1926 by the ''Bayerische Flugzeugwerke'', predecessor of BMW.

Aircraft

Rumpler 6B The Rumpler 6B was a German single-engine floatplane fighter with a biplane wing structure, designed and built by Rumpler Flugzeugwerke, in Berlin Johannisthal and introduced in 1916. Design and development Born out of a requirement of the ' ...

Rumpler B.I The Rumpler B.I (factory designation 4A) was a military reconnaissance aircraft produced in Germany during World War I.Taylor 1989, p.771 Design and development The B.I was a conventional two-bay biplane with unstaggered wings of unequal span. ...

* Rumpler C.I * Rumpler C.III *

Rumpler C.IV The Rumpler C.IV was a German single-engine, two-seat reconnaissance biplane. It was a development of C.III with different tail surfaces and using a Mercedes D.IVa engine in place of the C.III's Benz Bz.IV. The Rumpler 6B 2 was a single-sea ...

* Rumpler C.V *

Rumpler C.VI The Rumpler C.VI was a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft used by the Germans during the First World War. The aircraft was designed, along with the C.VII, based on the previous success of high-altitude Zeppelins, from which the engine was a ...

* Rumpler C.VII * Rumpler C.VIII *

Rumpler C.X The Rumpler C.X, produced under the company designation Rumpler 8C 14, was a German two-seat observation aircraft. It was developed from the earlier Rumpler 8C 13 prototype by Rumpler in early 1918. The prototype A prototype is an early sa ...

* Rumpler D.I * Rumpler G.I *

Rumpler G.II The Rumpler G.I was a bomber aircraft produced in Germany during World War I, together with refined versions known as the G.II and G.III.Taylor 1989, p.772 Design and development Based on a prototype with the factory designation 4A15, the G.I an ...

* Rumpler G.III

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