Pekrun

Professor Hermann Arthur Pekrun founded Maschinenfabrik Pekrun at Kötitz near Coswig in 1896. The works specialized in globoid worm gearing and grew from modest beginnings to roughly 600 employees by 1908. It entered automobile manufacture under the Pekrun name in 1909 with a single 2,594 cc four-cylinder design using a three-speed planetary gearbox, then withdrew in 1911. Its automotive influence continued through worm-drive components supplied to neighboring Nacke trucks and buses, but those were not Pekrun-badged vehicles. The factory remained a transmission business, was expropriated after the Second World War and became VEB Getriebefabrik Coswig in 1949, the GDR's sole worm-gear manufacturer. AUMA Group acquired GFC in 1991; it became GFC AntriebsSysteme in 2005 and AUMA Drives in 2016. Today's AUMA Drives builds industrial gear units rather than automobiles, so the catalog uses the historical Pekrun badge while retaining the complete corporate succession.

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