Wanderer (company)

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Wanderer

Industry	Bicycles, Automobiles
Founded	1896 by Johann Baptist Winklhofer und Richard Adolf Jaenicke
Defunct	1945
Fate	merged into Auto Union (car division only)
Headquarters	Saxony, Germany
Parent	Auto Union

Wanderer was a German manufacturer of bicycles, motorcycles, automobiles, vans and other machinery. Established as Winklhofer & Jaenicke in 1896 by Johann Baptist Winklhofer and Richard Adolf Jaenicke, the company used the Wanderer brand name from 1911, making civilian automobiles until 1941 and military vehicles until 1945.

Wanderer was last active as a financial holding company without its own business operations and went bankrupt in July 2010. The brand was then acquired by Cologne-based manufacturer Zweirad Einkaufs Genossenschaft (ZEG).^[1]