AAG

AAG was the automobile badge of Allgemeine Automobil-Gesellschaft Berlin, a short-lived German pioneer concern whose trademark was registered in November 1899 and again in February 1900. The company is not the same identity as the later Neue Automobil-Gesellschaft, although the two are directly connected by the works: Emil Rathenau acquired the AAG factory after production ended and reorganized it as NAG. AAG's own range was deliberately small. Professor Klingenberg designed a single 5 HP voiturette, built in Berlin from 1900 through 1901. Available reference summaries do not preserve a formal type number, cylinder dimensions, body schedule, price, chassis serial sequence or verified production total, so the car is represented as one source-named family rather than subdivided by body or assumed engine details. AAG also appears in pioneer-automobile references as a seller or distributor of vehicles made by other concerns, including motorized tricycles and electric cars; those external products are not counted as AAG models. The 1901 transfer of the factory to Rathenau marks the end of the independent AAG automobile program, not the beginning of an uninterrupted AAG-to-NAG marque. NAG receives its own identity and model history. One 1900–01 5 HP Klingenberg Voiturette therefore exhausts the defensible AAG road-vehicle range, with the sparse record made explicit rather than filled from early NAG specifications.

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