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Max Wenkel
Max Wenkel (2 February 1864 – (?)1943) was a German automobile pioneer and inventor.〔Wenkel's year of birth is sometimes wrongly given as 1874. His place of birth and exact date of death have yet to established.〕
==Life==
Like other automobile pioneers Max Wenkel began his career as an engineer and inventor with the construction of bicycles. He built his first pennyfarthing bicycle while still an apprentice engineer, and was soon taking part in races with well-known cyclists such as Willy Tischbein, who later became Director General of the Continental-Caoutchouc and Guttapercha Company.〔''ADAC Motorwelt'', 1929, No. 7, p. 17〕 He accompanied the future founder of the Adler Biycle and Automobile Company, Dr. Heinrich Kleyer, on a trip to study the manufacture of bicycles in England at the beginning of the 1880s. Later he was employed at the Duplex bicycle factory in Berlin.〔''Automobil-Rundschau'', 1904, no. 3, p. 431〕
In 1895 he successfully experimented with a water velocipede on the rivers Leine and Ihme near Hanover.〔''Dinglers polytechnisches Journal'', 1896, no. 299, pp. 172–179〕 As early as 1899 he exhibited a small car at the First International Exhibition in Berlin.〔''Automobil-Rundschau'', 1904, no. 3, p. 431〕 Between 1901 and 1903 Wenkel travelled through East India, Java, Sumatra and Borneo, where he built the first Wenkelmobils in rather primitive conditions.〔Siegfried M. Pistorius, "Sensation um die Jahrhundertwende. Wenkelmobil rast durch die Welt" in: ''Der NSKK.-Mann'', 6 August 1938, no. 23, p. 3〕 When back in Germany, the Berlin factory of Schneider & Co started the production of his Wenkelmobil.〔The archive of the Deutsches Museum in Munich lists documents of Automobilwerke Schneider & Co. (Archive letter S )〕 Wenkel won numerous prizes with it in races in its small-car class. In 1906 and 1907 he travelled the length of South America down to Patagonia in a Wenkelmobil. He was officially commissioned to open up the Cordillera region for motor traffic, and also built flat-bottomed speed boats suitable for Argentine rivers.〔''ADAC Motorwelt'', 1929, no. 7, p. 17〕 Wenkel acquired several patents, e.g. for the Wenkelmobil’s friction drive and a (high-speed compression and vacuum pump ). The Berlin Directory lists him as engineer and owner of a technical bureau and export firm during WWI. When well over sixty he won the prestigious Garbaty Trophy with his speedboat "Java II", in 1929.〔''Die Yacht'', 1930, issue 9, p. 22〕 Three years later he was still making his mark with the invention of a "motor in a trunk car", a newfangled though unsuccessful miniature automobile.〔Immo Sievers , "Der Frontantrieb aus Spandau setzte Maßstäbe" in: ''Berliner Zeitung'', 27/09/1995〕 An article in a boys’ yearbook in 1943 suggests that Wenkel died in that year, but his precise date of death has yet to be confirmed.〔''Jungen - eure Welt!'', vol. 6, 1943, p. 438. This is an adapted version of the abovementioned article by Siegfried M. Pistorius of 1938〕
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