KOMNICK / ELBING / GERMANY (today Poland) ( 1907 - 1927 )
Karl Franz KOMNICK started his car production in 1907. The factory was locted in Elbing / East Prussia, so they sold their cars also to Russia, Poland and other eastern countries. The first cars had the radiator behind the engine. The KOMNICK was famous for his durability. But it was never a mass - producer, so they had to close in 1927. To my knowledge no car survived WW1 and WW2, so the emblem is also very, very rare.
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| KOMNICK radiator emblem |
| Size | 7.0 cm |
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| Year | 1907 - 1927 |
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| backside of an original emblem |
Early Komnick vehicle with radiator behind the engine:
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| What do you think, is there an emblem in the middle of the fire wall ? |
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| 1923 KOMNICK truck with (painted ?) emblem behind the door |
The emblem design in a shape of a shield was patented in 1913:
There was another KOMNICK emblem for the branch that built machines:
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| I have never seen this particular emblem in reality |
One of my favorite KOMNICK items:
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| KOMNICK ashtray, seen in the Military Museum in Elblag / Poland in 2025 |
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| early advertisement showing the knight´s cross of the emblem |
Look at the details: the radiator to the left is showing a motometer with KOMNICK emblem and at the bottom right an acorn with a leaf, the emblem of the “Buy German cars” movement
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| 1913 advertisement in a German Motor journal also using the Russian language |
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| 1927 photo with technical data showing the last KOMNICK automobile |
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| Another ad showing the radiator emblem. It says: better than using horses..... |
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| In 1924 KOMNICK participated at the AUTOMOBIL AUSSTELLUNG in Berlin |
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| 1926 advertisement |
The last passenger car produced by Komnick had an unusually designed radiator in the shape of the shield of the Knights of the Order:
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| Unfortunately, not a single vehicle of this type has survived, not even a radiator has been saved. |
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| What is left: remains of the gravestone of company founder Franz Komnick ( seen in 2025 in Elblag/Poland) |
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| SELVE, NAG PROTOS, KOMNICK and WANDERER emblem, all victims of WWII and later rescued from a garbage dump. |
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