Heute vor 20 Jahren verstarb Dieter König an seinen schweren Verletzungen im Krankenhaus.

Einen Tag nachdem er bei Saarmund mit einem Ultraleichtflieger während eines Testfluges abstürzte.

Es wird wohl immer ein Geheimnis bleiben welche Ideen und Vorhaben er noch hatte.

Mit ihm ging ein Mensch der oft seiner Zeit voraus war.

In den Büchern der Geschichte des Rennsportes und der Entwicklung von Bootsmotoren ist er für immer verewigt...

Wir wandeln schon lange auf seinen Spuren und versuchen so viel wie nur möglich über den "König-Motorenbau-Berlin" in Erfahrung zu bringen und das jedem interessierten zugänglich zu machen.

Ruhe in Frieden....

dumperjack:

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Wir wandeln schon lange auf seinen Spuren und versuchen so viel wie nur möglich über den "König-Motorenbau-Berlin" in Erfahrung zu bringen und das jedem interessierten zugänglich zu machen...

Dabei will ich wohl helfen. Leider findet man erstaunlich wenig über diese Motoren. Ich selbst fahre seit über 30 Jahren Motorboot und habe in der ganzen Zeit gerade einmal 3 Stück (2 40er, 1 65er) auf dem Wasser gesehen

Aus 'Boote' 5/'77:

Artikel aus 'Boote' 1/'85

Ulzana:

dumperjack:

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Wir wandeln schon lange auf seinen Spuren und versuchen so viel wie nur möglich über den "König-Motorenbau-Berlin" in Erfahrung zu bringen und das jedem interessierten zugänglich zu machen...

Dabei will ich wohl helfen. Leider findet man erstaunlich wenig über diese Motoren. Ich selbst fahre seit über 30 Jahren Motorboot und habe in der ganzen Zeit gerade einmal 3 Stück (2 40er, 1 65er) auf dem Wasser gesehen

Aus 'Boote' 5/'77:

Vielen Dank für Deine Zeitungsberichte.

Diesen hatte ich mal vor ca. einem Jahr für interessierte über den "Großen Teich" übersetzt.

Eventuell hilft das ja auch unseren ausländischen Lesern.

könig motors building

a renowned berlin firm celebrates 50th birthday

has started all this with a lull, at which company founder and senior chef of the engine production company könig always black angry, when he and wife and sailboat on the lakes around berlin was traveling.
precisely in the evening, if he wanted to sail homeward, regularly slept the wind one.
they were rarely at home at the scheduled time.
practical thinker and technically gifted, as he now was, rudolf retired king back to his attic
and worked on his “pusher”, he should make it independent from the wind.
then came something special about out: a side-mounted two stroke motor, the great-grandfather of all royal (könig) motors.
as a könig with this stinking universal single copy was among the people, made his club mates initially mocking remark, on account of their limited technical experience, they thought that the side-mounted engine the boat only turn on the places, however, never move forward can.
But könig’s motor did exactly what the inventor wanted: he pushed him along with sailing boat back home, even without wind.
berliner people understand very quickly, said man …
now realized the boatclubfriends könig which meant the wind help.
everyone wanted to have suddenly a wind subsided helfer.
now he moved from the loft to do in the "oranienstrasse" (is a street name in the "western area" of berlin) and founded in 1927 in berlin a motor company.
there he built with his master “robert blankenfeld” outboard engine.
from then on, progress was rapid with könig.
already in the year 1934/35 it had reached an important goal for him: building a racing engine.
(here comes a paragraph of text that I would literally translate as much as possible, the reality but in my research in writing something different)
but soon it was with the "peaceful activities" to an end.
"adolf the brown" (adolf hitler) he had his previous "civilian" development work without reservation of the "service of the fatherland" provide.
commissioned in the "greater german military makes" he developed the legendary three-cylinder radial engine for storm-boats, and another motor for the navy.
at end of the war was rodolf könig with his company literally (read literally) fallen into the cellar (space under the house).
bomb had its engine factory paralyzed and laid in debris. but not for long.
there began rudolf könig with shovel and pickaxe spilled machines and tools to dig again, including a grinding machine, the very day their service makes.
soon had the "old" ready to run some. then, when some of its fixed employees were resumed, the company began to run again. there was a time of repairs paid for with food was.
lacustrian paid with the fish. bread with paying the "russians", They also könig as a ferryman on the "havel" (names of river) brought.
then again as the demand for new engines began, könig as representatives traveled through the land.
but not with a pattern-suitcase, as was customary, with backpack in which he gave a complete outboard as an exhibition piece carries with it.
now was könig junior, dieter tall. from the father he had the passion for engineering and construction inherited, he built for himself with 15 years a side boat motor on his bike.
the young dieter wanted the working start in the organization of the father, but the Father who sent him into the alien, "So that the young learn something real". apparently with success; because after a few years but he came back into operation the paternal, he now heads.
although it is a small company in relationship to the outboard giants from the usa and japan, but a company who claim’s himself.
the secret to success ?
probably it is because, that in a time of technology and automation the working world at könig
manageable and humane has remained.
this example is representative of the pensioner “karl nußbaum”.
a year ago was the meanwhile 77 year old pensioner at the factory came over and asked for work, the daily walk was too boring.
dieter könig put the learned a fine mechanic.
he was recognized by his colleagues, he praised the good working atmosphere.
if he is happy at his workbench provides one senses why so many people here have learned and still are.
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