Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler was the son of a baker named Johannes Däumler (Daimler) and his wife Frederika, from the town of Schorndorf near Stuttgart, Württemberg. Daimler died in 1900 and Wilhelm Maybach quit DMG in 1907.ĭaimler's birthplace in Schorndorf, now a small museum. Maybach resigned at the same time, and also returned. Upon his return he experienced difficulty with the other stockholders that led to his resignation in 1893. Daimler fell ill and took a break from the business.

They sold their first automobile in 1892. In 1890, they converted their partnership into a stock company Daimler Motoren Gesellschaft (DMG, in English-Daimler Motors Corporation). Daimler called this engine the grandfather clock engine ( Standuhr) because of its resemblance to a large pendulum clock. In 1885 they designed a vertical cylinder version of this engine which they subsequently fitted to a two-wheeler, the first internal combustion motorcycle which was named the Petroleum Reitwagen (Riding Car) and, in the next year, to a coach, and a boat. In 1883 they designed a horizontal cylinder layout compressed charge liquid petroleum engine that fulfilled Daimler's desire for a high speed engine which could be throttled, making it useful in transportation applications. He invented the high-speed liquid petroleum-fueled engine.ĭaimler and his lifelong business partner Wilhelm Maybach were two inventors whose goal was to create small, high-speed engines to be mounted in any kind of locomotion device. He was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler ( German: 17 March 1834 – 6 March 1900) was a German engineer, industrial designer and industrialist born in Schorndorf ( Kingdom of Württemberg, a federal state of the German Confederation), in what is now Germany. Cannstatt, Kingdom of Württemberg, German EmpireĮngineer, industrialist, automotive pioneerĭaimler Motoren Gesellschaft (Daimler Motors Corporation, DMG)

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