Horch
Proper noun
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Horch (plural Horchs or Horches)
A surname from German.
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After troubles with Horch chief financial officer, August Horch left Motorwagenwerke and founded in Zwickau on 16 July 1909, his second company, the August Horch Automobilwerke GmbH.
His new firm was initially called Horch Automobil-Werke GmbH, but following a legal dispute over the Horch name, he decided to make another automobile company.
"audi" is the literal Latin translation of the German word "horch", meaning the imperative "Listen!" which was also the last name of the company’s founder: August Horch.
In the summer of 1948, Horch and Else Kolmar, who came from a Jewish family, married.
On May, 10th, 1904 he founded the August Horch & Cie.
Post Audi Horch left Audi in 1920 and went to Berlin and took various jobs.