奥古斯特·霍希1868—1951

开端

霍希出生于德国莱茵省温宁根。他最初的职业是铁匠，然后在 Hochschule Mittweida（密特威达技术学院）接受了教育。在获得工程学学位后，他曾从事造船业。霍希从1896年开始为宾士汽车创办人卡尔·宾士工作，然后在1899年11月他在德国科隆创立了自己的汽车厂牌 A. Horch & Co.。

生产制造

第一辆霍希汽车于1901年正式出厂。该公司于分别于1902年迁厂至福格特兰地区赖兴巴赫和1904年迁至茨维考。霍希于1909年因为一次严重纠纷而离开了公司，并在茨维考成立了另一家竞争公司。他的新公司最初命名为 Horch Automobil-Werke GmbH，但法院裁定 Horch 品牌名称是霍希的前合伙人公司的注册商标，霍希不再有权使用它，所以在这场法律诉讼之后，他决定成立另一家汽车公司。霍希（Horch）于1910年将他的新公司命名为奥迪汽车有限公司（Audi Automobilwerke GmbH），奥迪是霍希的拉丁语。

离开奥迪

霍希于1920年第一次世界大战结束后离开了奥迪，前往柏林，并任职于一些不同的工作。他于1937年出版了他的自传《I Built Cars（Ich Baute Autos）》。后来他还曾在汽车联盟（Auto Union）的董事会担任董事，汽车联盟后来也发展成为了现代的奥迪（Audi AG）。他是茨维考的荣誉公民，在茨维考和他的出生地温宁根都有一条以他创立的奥迪汽车命名的街道。他也曾经在布伦瑞克工业大学担任荣誉教授一职。

August Horch (12 October 1868 – 3 February 1951) was a German engineer and automobile pioneer, the founder of the manufacturing giant that eventually became Audi.

Beginnings

Horch was born in Winningen, Rhenish Prussia. His initial trade was as a blacksmith, and then was educated at Hochschule Mittweida (Mittweida Technical College). After receiving a degree in engineering, he worked in shipbuilding. Horch worked for Karl Benz from 1896, before founding A. Horch & Co. in November 1899, in Ehrenfeld, Cologne, Germany.

Manufacturing

The first Horch automobile was built in 1901. The company moved to Reichenbach in 1902 and Zwickau in 1904. Horch left the company in 1909 after a dispute, and set up in competition in Zwickau. His new firm was initially called Horch Automobil-Werke GmbH, but following a legal dispute over the Horch name, he decided to make another automobile company. (The court decided that Horch was a registered trademark on behalf of August's former partners and August was not entitled to use it any more). Consequently, Horch named his new company Audi Automobilwerke GmbH in 1910, Audi being the Latinization of Horch.

Post Audi

Horch left Audi in 1920 and went to Berlin and took various jobs. He published his autobiography, I Built Cars (Ich Baute Autos) in 1937. He also served on the board of Auto Union, the successor to Audi Automobilwerke GmbH he had founded. Horch remained an honorary executive at Auto Union during and after its reincorporation in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, in the late 1940s until his death in 1951, ultimately not living to see the later resurrection of his Audi brand a decade later under the ownership of Volkswagen.

He was an honorary citizen of Zwickau and had a street named for his Audi cars in both Zwickau and his birthplace Winningen. He was made an honorary professor at Braunschweig University of Technology. There is an August Horchstrasse (August Horch Street) at Audi's main manufacturing plant in Ingolstadt.