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I don't know if this is the right Marion in Berlin. She ran a day care
in her apt. 6 yrs. ago. We were inside the factory then.

König Marion
Krampasplatz 5, 14199 Berlin, Schmargendorf
Tel....

Peter died a few years ago. You'd need to look up Marion in the Berlin phone book
or other info. We were in the factory in 2011.
Joe

König means king, very common name in N. Germany. There are many Königs/Koenigs in Texas. No relation to Dieter. Norwegian is Kong so King Kong is King King or Kong Kong.

Interesting post!

This is a sidetrack, but within the last few years there was a story in The Antique Outboarder about the 8-cyl. König.

In Alice?!! Pretty unusual! Had to take 2 yrs. in univ. My dad said 'Don't take French or German, after WWII those languages are dead. Take Russian or Chinese.' Well, he was a bit off the mark on...

German dialects vary very strongly, some are not mutually understandable. In the south (Bavaria, Tirol) 'Zoo' sounds like tsoo with oo pronounced like a long o in English.

So, like me, at some...

Alt i orden.
Hilsen,
Joe

Zoo in German is not pronounced like zoo in English. Spelling is the same. In fact, oo in
German word Zoo is pronounced exactly like the English long o (as in English 'ho').

Gene, German bureaucrats will not write ö, as in König in a passport or in documents even today because the rest of the world does not have the symbol. Internationally, König becomes Koenig....

Wayne, that clears it up. She was small (Peter is not so short, Marion is shorter.), 'Flohmarkt' means 'flea market'. She looks pretty nice. You probably know that 'König' means 'King'. There are a...

Who was Flo? There's a ca. 1955 picture of Dieter, rig, and Eleanora, and Daughter Marion looks (today) very much like Eleanora.

If it had been after 1986 you might have met a driver who built his own motors, Holger Arens. I can testify for German women, I became enchanted by one. We lived together, got married before our...

Hi Wayne, thanks for the detailed reply on turning in the canal (!) and the props. I was at the OPC nationals for 4 days, worked much of the time on props. Had only two successes there but I saw Jim...

It was my pleasure. I'd like to have stayed longer in the factory but we had 10 hrs. more
to drive to Austria and two of us had to fly back to Houston less than two days later. As I said, I hope to...

Where (in Berlin?) is the memorial? Did they carry hydros across Saatwinkler Damm to
test in the canal beneath? We should come into contact. My wife is German, I speak German, I've spent 80% of my...

Wayne,

Very nice, thanks! What was the 1100cc motor? Peter thinks there are enough
parts to build a 250 cc motor but warned that the driver must be light (<75 kg)
and must work the pipes a lot....

Wayne, Here's the pitch distribution of the König-built prop I bought. Taking pitch at mid-chord it's a 7x13 with 15mm propshaft dia. Can you identify the motor/class?
Rake is 0 degrees as expected...

The mistake written above is now corrected. Konny got none of the König factory.

One of the BMW/König 2-stroke bikes is still in the factory, Peter uncovered it briefly yesterday..

You're ahead of me, Mike. For reeds, rotax cyl. and pistons see my forthcoming Arens post.

Arens is still aactive and has a new direct injected rotary valve race motor they want to detune and...

I took the first three photos, the rest were taken by my wife, Cornelia Küffner.
Our 29 year old son, Hans, on the website is 'May Fly III'.
The nice finished prop shown is the König design that I...

A week ago our son Hans and I visited Holger Arens at his factory in east Berlin. We'll post photos and a story later. He told us that the König factory is still there on Friedrich Olbricht Damm, the...

Good point, when did they split? But still, their dealer net, exposure, in Germany and Austria is nearly nil. That the E-Tec qualifies for use on Bodensee (highly restrictive area) is hardly of use...

The guess I made too hastily below was also wrong, parts and machines are still there in the factory.


Trash heap is probably right, most likely. That's also what's happening to OMC motors in...

Sam, you're probably right.

joe

Very nice, Sam! I read recently that the remains of the König factory went to the Czec Republic, and that the new style motors are manufactured under the name Konny (and are sold in Atlanta).