Wilhelm Maybach, a former designer at Daimler, and his son Karl founded a company in Friedrichshafen in 1909 to work on engines for Zeppelin airships. BMW’s blue-and-white logo still points to the company’s origins in aero engine construction today: it depicts a stylized aircraft propeller in motion from the front. One of MTU’s “founding grandfathers” was Karl Rapp from Ehingen, whose engine works in the north of Munich were taken over by Bayerische Motorenwerke, BMW for short, in 1917. The full name of the company at that time-it has been trading as MTU Aero Engines since 2000-makes it clear that the company’s roots go back to the very beginnings of motorized flight. This JV merged the aero engine and diesel engine activities of Daimler-Benz and MAN at the Munich and Friedrichshafen sites. ![]() In clear type and in trendy lower case, the abbreviation “mtu” stands for the somewhat unwieldy name of the joint venture that was formed on July 11, 1969: MTU Motoren- und Turbinen-Union München GmbH M.
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