Ludwigsfelde

Ludwigsfelde is a city inside the north of the district Teltow-Flaming in Brandenburg. The first settlement inside the major metropolis came about at 1750 underneath Frederick II of Prussia; numerous villages already existed within the thirteenth century. Ludwigsfelde has been labeled as a town in view that 1965. In 1936 Daimler-Benz Motoren GmbH changed into founded with a new factory at Genshagen / Ludwigsfelde. The manufacturing unit made Daimler-Benz DB six hundred series aircraft engines until 1945, while the USAAF bombed the plant after which what plant had survived the bombing was removed and taken to the Soviet Union as conflict reparations.

In 1952 the manufacturing facility turned into refounded because the VEB Industriewerke Ludwigsfelde, which made numerous merchandise consisting of heavy equipment and Multicar small exchange vehicles. For a brief duration the plant made Pirna jet engines for the sick-fated Dresden 152 airliner. For extra than a decade, 1954–65, it made IWL motor scooters, inclusive of the SR 59 Berlin. In 1965 the plant turned into enlarged and transformed to construct IFA trucks. When finished, the brand new manufacturing complicated turned into the largest within the DDR. From 1965 the plant constructed IFA W50 five-tonne vans, and from 1988 it made the bigger L60 six-tonne trucks as properly. Production collapsed after the DDR followed the Deutsche Mark in July 1990.