DKW Auto Union archive

Many years ago I started the Heinkel Scooter Blog to document my restoration of a couple of German scooters. One of those scooters was an IWL Troll from East Germany. The Troll was powered by a 149cc MZ engine and MZ was the East German successor of DKW, Germany's biggest prewar motorcycle manufacturer. This set me on a search for information about DKW.


After I wrote a story about DKW's pioneering two-stroke motor development, I was surprised to discover that that post received more hits than anything else I'd posted. I began to do more research.

This research lead me to DKW's range of two-stroke cars, something I was originally completely unaware of. I subsequently purchased a 1959 DKW F94 sedan from South Africa and a 1953 DKW F89P from Portugal. Over the years I have collected a wide range of DKW automobilia, adverts and manuals, which I have collected here along with the DKW posts from my Heinkel Scooter Blog. Many people have also shared with me copies of their DKW documents. I must thank Ralf Kopmann in Germany and Johan Marais in South Africa, among many others, for sharing their vast archives.

I have attempted to post the documents in date order.

We can begin the story with these overview posts:
1. Das Kleine Wunder: https://dkwautounionproject.blogspot.com/2017/06/das-kleine-wonder-story-of-remarkable.html
2. DKW - Germany's Wonder Car: https://dkwautounionproject.blogspot.com/2017/07/dkw-germanys-wonder-car.html
3. DKW - Germany's Post-war Wonder Car: https://dkwautounionproject.blogspot.com/2017/07/dkw-germanys-post-war-wonder-car.html

Sub-section Indexes:
1. Framo (Jorge Rasmussen's separate company building two-stroke commercials):
https://dkwautounionproject.blogspot.com/2020/06/framo-index.html
2. IFA (East Germany's nationalized successor company to Auto Union):
https://dkwautounionproject.blogspot.com/2018/11/ifa-awz-trabant-and-wartburg-index.html
3. IWL (Industrialwerkes of Ludwigsfelde, East German's scooter manufacturer):
https://dkwautounionproject.blogspot.com/2020/06/industrialwerkes-of-ludwigsfeld-iwl.html
4. Jawa and Aero (Czechoslovakian licensed DKW manufacturer and later competitor):
https://dkwautounionproject.blogspot.com/2021/02/jawa-700.html