Audi

Initially in 1885, car organization Wanderer was built up, later turning into a branch of Audi AG. Another organization, NSU, which likewise later converged into Audi, was established amid this time, and later supplied the skeleton for Gottlieb Daimler's four-wheeler.

On 14 November 1899, August Horch (1868–1951) built up the organization A. Horch and Cie. in the Ehrenfeld locale of Cologne. After three years in 1902 he moved with his organization to Reichenbach im Vogtland. On May, tenth, 1904 he established the August Horch and Cie. Motorwagenwerke AG, a business entity in Zwickau (State of Saxony). 

After issues with Horch CFO, August Horch left Motorwagenwerke and established in Zwickau on 16 July 1909, his second organization, the August Horch Automobilwerke GmbH. His previous accomplices sued him for trademark encroachment. The German Reichsgericht (Supreme Court) in Leipzig, in the long run confirmed that the Horch brand had a place with his previous company.

Audi Type E 

Since August Horch was banned from utilizing "Horch" as an exchange name in his new auto business, he assembled a conference with close business companions, Paul and Franz Fikentscher from Zwickau, Germany. At the flat of Franz Fikentscher, they examined how to think of another name for the organization. Amid this meeting, Franz's child was discreetly examining Latin in a side of the room. A few times he seemed as though he was nearly saying something however would simply swallow his words and keep working, until he at long last exclaimed, "Father – audiatur et altera standards... wouldn't it be a smart thought to call it audi rather than horch? "Horch!" in German signifies "Behold!" or "listen", which is "Audi" in the solitary basic type of "audire" – "to tune in" – in Latin. The thought was energetically acknowledged by everybody going to the meeting. On 25 April 1910 the Audi Automobilwerke GmbH Zwickau (from 1915 on Audiwerke AG Zwickau) was entered in the organization's register of Zwickau enrollment court. 

The principal Audi vehicles, the Audi Type A 10/22 hp (16 kW) Sport-Phaeton, was delivered in the same year, took after by the successor Type B 10/28PS in the same year.

Audi began with a 2,612 cc inline-four motor model Type A, trailed by a 3,564 cc model, and additionally 4,680 cc and 5,720 cc models. These autos were effective even in donning occasions. The initial six-chamber model Type M, 4,655 cc showed up in 1924.

August Horch left the Audiwerke in 1920 for a high position at the service of transport, however he was still required with Audi as an individual from the leading body of trustees. In September 1921, Audi turned into the primary German auto producer to show a generation auto, the Audi Type K, with left-gave drive. Left-hand drive spread and set up strength amid the 1920s since it gave a superior perspective of approaching activity, making surpassing safer.

The merger of the four organizations under the logo of four rings 

Primary article: Auto Union 

In August 1928, Jørgen Rasmussen, the proprietor of Dampf-Kraft-Wagen (DKW), gained the greater part of shares in Audiwerke AG. around the same time, Rasmussen purchased the remaining parts of the U.S. vehicles producer Rickenbacker, including the assembling gear for eight-chamber motors. These motors were utilized as a part of Audi Zwickau and Audi Dresden models that were propelled in 1929. In the meantime, six-barrel and four-chamber (the "four" with a Peugeot motor) models were produced. Audi autos of that time were extravagant autos furnished with uncommon bodywork. 

In 1932, Audi converged with Horch, DKW, and Wanderer, to frame Auto Union AG, Chemnitz. It was amid this period that the organization offered the Audi Front that turned into the principal European auto to join a six-barrel motor with front-wheel drive. It utilized a powertrain imparted to the Wanderer, yet turned 180-degrees, so that the drive shaft confronted the front. 

Before World War II, Auto Union utilized the four interlinked rings that make up the Audi identification today, speaking to these four brands. This identification was utilized, notwithstanding, just on Auto Union dashing autos in that period while the part organizations utilized their own names and seals. The innovative improvement turned out to be increasingly focused and some Audi models were pushed by Horch or Wanderer manufactured motors. 

Mirroring the financial weights of the time, Auto Union focused progressively on littler autos through the 1930s, so that by 1938 the organization's DKW image represented 17.9% of the German auto market, while Audi held just 0.1%. After the last few Audis were conveyed in 1939 the "Audi" name vanished totally from the new auto market for over two decades. 

Post-World War II 

IFA F9 

Like most German assembling, at the onset of World War II the Auto Union plants were retooled for military creation, and were an objective for united shelling amid the war which left them harmed. 

Overwhelm by the Soviet Army in 1945, on the requests of the Soviet Union military organization the manufacturing plants were disassembled as a component of war reparations. Following this, the organization's whole resources were seized without compensation. On 17 August 1948, Auto Union AG of Chemnitz was erased from the business register. These activities had the impact of selling Germany's Auto Union AG. The remaining parts of the Audi plant of Zwickau turned into the VEB (for "Individuals Owned Enterprise") Automobilwerk Zwickau or AWZ (in English: Automobile Works Zwickau). 

With no prospect of proceeding with creation in Soviet controlled East Germany, Auto Union officials started the procedure of moving what was left of the organization to West Germany. A site was picked in Ingolstadt, Bavaria to begin an extra parts operation in late 1945, which would in the end serve as the central command of the changed Auto Union in 1949. 

The previous Audi production line in Zwickau restarted gathering of the pre-war-models in 1949. These DKW models were renamed to IFA F8 and IFA F9 and were like the West German forms. West and East German models were furnished with the conventional and eminent DKW two-stroke motors. The Zwickau plant produced the scandalous Trabant until 1991, when it went under Volkswagen control—successfully bringing it under the same umbrella as Audi since 1945.