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Bmw map of west Germany
Bmw map of west Germany
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Chris
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Must be fairly rare...
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This map has the old, serif
To me, it looks like the DDR was treated as other neighboring countries, and is only included because Bavaria sticks out so far east. Notice that the far southeast of the DDR is cut off.
But the DDR, and the little slice of west Poland that is visible, both have the same background color as the BDR, and different from the other countries that are visible. Is this because those areas all used to be part of Germany?
By looking at the extent of the Autobahn system on the map, one could probably accurately date it. None of the autobahns or highways are marked, but from my travels, I can see a number of places where there are autobahns today (or even 30 years ago) but aren't shown on the map. For example, the A8, which for more than the last 20 years, has run from Karlsruhe on the French border, through Stuttgart, Ulm and Augsburg to Munich, doesn't have the part from Karlsruhe to Stuttgart. The A7, which crosses the A8 near Ulm and runs south to Kempten on the Austrian border, isn't on the map at all; neither is the A81 that runs through Wuerzburg. If I spent more time, I could probably find more, and then I could probably chase down when those were built...
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politics
Politics maybe? West Germany never "officially" recognized East Germany as a separate country. In fact, the German "Hallstein Doctrine" threatened to break off diplomatic ties with any country that recognized East Germany as a separate country.
That doesn't quite explain why part of Poland is colored the same though.........
I found the manual on
Speaking of, it seems they're getting about as rare as hens teeth as I've been looking for a nice one for months with no luck. The last one I saw hit ebay that didn't look like it rolled a few hundred yards down a highway was eagerly bid up to $2500 on the first or second day of a 7 day auction with zero additional bids(I don't understand this strategy). There are a few listed now surprisingly but both are quite rough. My /2 is an absolutely gorgeous original paint bike and I would LOVE to add a Meier Sport tank someday. If anyone has one collecting dust on the shelf and would like to sell it at a fair price, please let me know!
Re. West Berlin
Possibly BMW themselves had an attitude towards the DDR, since they prevented their own factory at Eisenach (though under DDR state control), from using the BMW trademark in 1949, although they also wanted it back, until they got it...
I have a copy of that map,
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Status of West Berlin
Possibly BMW themselves had an attitude towards the DDR, since they prevented their own factory at Eisenach (though under DDR state control), from using the BMW trademark in 1949, although they also wanted it back, until they got it...
Really? I would like to know more about this.
BMW bought out a company called BRAMO just before WWII as a part of their research on building jet engines. BRAMO's plant was in the Spandau district of Berlin. After the Berlin Air Lift and the building of the wall, the BRD realized that they had to take extraordinary measures to keep business and industry in West Berlin, and, among other things, gave companies huge subsidies to move there and tax breaks to stay there. This is why BMW moved motorcycle production to Spandau in 1969. Another part of this program involved moving various agencies of the BRD government to Berlin.
"Really? I would like to know
BMW bought out a company called BRAMO just before WWII as a part of their research on building jet engines. BRAMO's plant was in the Spandau district of Berlin. After the Berlin Air Lift and the building of the wall, the BRD realized that they had to take extraordinary measures to keep business and industry in West Berlin, and, among other things, gave companies huge subsidies to move there and tax breaks to stay there. This is why BMW moved motorcycle production to Spandau in 1969. Another part of this program involved moving various agencies of the BRD government to Berlin."
The BMW subsidiary I was referring to was the Dixi factory which BMW took over in the late 1920s (more knowledgeable folk will, I'm sure correct any mistakes I make here), and which was the birthplace of BMW car manufacture, and from the mid 30s motorcycle manufacture too, (all the R35s R75s and, I believe some R51s, R71s and R12s were made there) when the war ended Eisenach was just inside the Soviet Zone of Occupation and from Summer 1945 R35s were built for mostly institutional use throughout all four Zones of Germany, and later for Civilian purchase, these were all correctly badged as BMWs, there were no BMW motorcycles made in Munich at this time as the entire factory had been utilised for production of BMWs air-cooled radial and later, liquid cooled in-line aircraft motors, which powered such aircraft as the Fw190/Ta152 family and the Ju88/188/488 family. (the jet engines built in Spandau only ever made it into a few He162 and Ar234 aircraft operationally), all the motorcycle jigs and fixtures had been transferred to Eisenach (or according to some versions of history in the case of the R71, Russia), and in fact the R51/2 had to be reverse-engineered from prewar R51s bought back from POs (some in the UK, apparently).After the formation of the Federal Republic and DDR in 1949, BMW AG took legal action against the Eisenach factory to prevent the R35s and Cars being badged as BMWs and they became EMWs, which continued until the mid 1950s when motorcycle production ended and the cars eventually became Wartburgs. A similar schism occurred between DKW and MZ, I believe.
Following re-unification, I believe BMW were offered the factory back to rescue it but declined to take it on and it quickly closed
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Niall, you are correct about
But what I was actually asking about was that West Berlin was never considered a part of the BRD. The Bonn government worked very hard to get companies to create jobs there so that there was a reason for people to live there.