MAN TRUCK & BUS INDIA - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Engineer

Job Titles:

• Entrepreneur

Entrepreneur Ludwig Sander together with engineer Jean Gaspard Dollfus founded the first direct predecessor company to MAN, the Sander'sche Maschinenfabrik (Sander's Machine Shop), in Augsburg in 1840. In 1844 this was renamed to C. Reichenbach'sche Maschinenfabrik - after printing machine pioneer Carl August Reichenbach, who made the company famous with his innovative invention. A further renaming to Maschinenfabrik Augsburg followed in 1857. In 1841 the Eisengießerei und Maschinenfabrik Klett & Comp was formed as a sister company in Nuremberg, but was renamed as Maschinenbau-Aktiengesellschaft Nürnberg in 1873. By 1898 the companies in Augsburg and Nuremberg merged to form the Vereinigten Maschinenfabrik Augsburg und Maschinenbaugesellschaft Nürnberg A.G. - and in 1908 they ultimately branded themselves as Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG, abbreviated to M.A.N.