Gottfried Schultz
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| GmbH & Co. KG | |
| Founded | 1924 |
| Headquarters | Ratingen, Germany |
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Key people
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Nicholas J. Dunning Heinrich Weiss |
| Revenue | 1.249 billion euros (2012) |
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Number of employees
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1900 |
| Website | www |
Gottfried Schultz GmbH, based in Ratingen, is the largestdealer for the automotive brands owned Volkswagen Group. The company employs approximately 1,900 people in 26 plants. It distributes and services cars of the marques Volkswagen, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Audi, SEAT, Škoda, Bentley, Porsche and Bugatti.
In 1924, Gottfried Schultz (1903-1980) founded in Essen a company dealing in used cars. In the early 1930s he became dealer for Horch. Following the merger of Horch with Audi, Wanderer and DKW to the Auto Union, he also from 1932 led those marques. In 1936 a new building was erected, in which the main operation of the company until 2009 had its headquarters. In 1939, a "main workshops treaty" with the Volkswagen factory GmbH Berlin was signed.
After the end of World War II, the company was faced with the problem that the major trading partners were within the Soviet occupation zone. Schultz began a collaboration with the Wolfsburg Volkswagen plant, for which he initially mediated former Wehrmacht stocks. In 1946 he gained a contract for the supply of the Volkswagen Beetle to the public. In 1949 he founded a first branch in Dusseldorf, sales offices in 1952 in Opladen and Moers and 1958 branch office in Mettmann followed. In 1968, construction in Ratingen-Lintorf built a wholesale distribution center and the headquarters were established.
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