Gatter Autowerk Reichstadt

Gatter Autowerk Reichstadt was a Czechoslovak automobile manufacturing company founded in 1930 in Reichstadt, Czechoslovakia by the Bohemian German automotive pioneer Willibald Gatter [de; cz] (1896-1973). It produced small, affordable cars and advertised these as “Volksauto” or “Volkswagen”, a “Car for the People”. Its car production ended in 1937 when economic crisis hit Czechoslovakia. After the Second World War and his expulsion from Czechoslovakia, Willibald Gatter tried to sell another small car in West Germany, the so-called Gatter-Mini (1952-1956) which remained a prototype.