Kiesinger Automotive

The **Kiesinger Automotive Corporation**, also known simply as **Kiesinger** or as the **Kiesinger Group**, is a European multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Leipzig, Saxony, European Union. The company designs, manufactures, and distributes passenger and commercial vehicles, motorcycles, engines, turbomachinery, intrasolar vehicles, and aerodynes, as well as offering several related services, including financing, servicing, and fleet management. As of December, 2149, Kiesinger was the largest automotive manufacturer in the world by total revenue, and holds the largest market share in Europe and most of the Middle East. It ranked fifth among all global corporations ranked by total revenue.

The Kiesinger Corporation sells passenger cars under the Laar, Nova, Vernier, and Kies brands, motorcycles under the Kantner name, light commercial vehicles under the Kies Commercial brand, and heavy commercial vehicles under the Kies Truck & Bus brand. It also sells passenger and luxury aerodynes under the Luxeur brand. It is divided into two primary subdivisions - the automotive division and the financial services division. As of 2146, the company owned around 200 subsidiaries. Kiesinger also has several joint ventures, most notably in Russia and China, through the KEIRUS and Sinokeis companies.

Kiesinger, originally founded as a single motor repair shop in 2049, tailored most of its engineering and production business towards the German military pre-war. Konrad Kiesinger, a cousin of Hannes and Laurin who had joined the family business after graduating from university, was the primary driving force behind this expansion, and his connections with the Germany military made through the sale of his inventions grew the company immensely during the Third World War. The company, which then also came to own a factory in Halle, began the mass production of replacement components for German military vehicles, and by the end of the war, had begun producing vehicles for the war effort. Following the end of the war, the company only grew. Established German automotive giants mostly collapsed as a result of the global supply chain collapse and the nuclear detonations in Berlin, and they were quickly replaced by the Kiesingers, who bought out bankrupted brands, leased abandoned factories, and renovated damaged offices. By 2080, they had emerged as the primary automotive manufacturer in all of Europe, and one of the only to survive past the war.

## History

The Kiesinger Automotive Corporation was originally founded in 2049 in Leipzig, by German brothers Hannes and Laurin. Hannes' friend Joel Eichenwald, himself an entrepreneur owning a research and development company, supported the brothers through a loan of around $35,000. Using this loan and their own capital, the Kiesinger brothers opened a small motor repair shop in the commercial district of Leipzig. They quickly grew a reputation for being professional, courteous, and talented repairmen, and partnered with larger German auto brands such as Audi and Volkswagen to inspect their vehicles and repair them when necessary. The Kiesinger brothers expanded their business when their cousin, Konrad Kiesinger, became involved in the family business. An engineering graduate from the University of Berlin, Konrad convinced the brothers of the market for improved vehicle components, especially for use in the German armed forces. Working part-time as a mechanic for the brothers and part-time on his own personal projects, Konrad eventually caught his big break when he designed an improved alternator for use in German military trucks. The sale of this patent to the German military helped the Kiesingers expand their business further, into not only the designing of these mechanical parts, but the manufacturing of these parts and the distribution of them. Further improvements were designed for German military vehicles by Konrad and his team of engineers - which by 2055 had reached ten employees total - and produced by the company's factory in Halle, before being sold. With the outbreak of the Third World War only half a decade later, the company's focus on military vehicle components paid off even more dividends, as replacement parts were in constant demand, alongside entire vehicles.