In Germany, the company Hanomag mass-produced the 2/10 PS "Kommissbrot", a small, cheap rear-engined car, from 1925 to 1928.
Josef Ganz developed the Standard Superior (going as far as advertising it as the "German Volkswagen"). The growing trend was not nascent Béla Barényi, a pioneering automotive engineer, is credited as already having conceived the basic design during the mid-1920s. Seeking a potential new market, some car makers began independent "people's car" projects – the Mercedes 170H, BMW 3/15, Adler AutoBahn, Steyr 55, and Hanomag 1.3L, among others. In the early 1930s, cars were a luxury – most Germans could afford nothing more elaborate than a motorcycle and only one German out of 50 owned a car. Volkswagen was established in 1937 by the German Labour Front ( Deutsche Arbeitsfront) in Berlin. Model of Porsche Type 12 (Zündapp), Museum of Industrial Culture, Nuremberg
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