Kreidler
thumb|upright=1.35|1950s and '70s examples of the 50 cc Kreidler Florett Kreidler was a German manufacturer of bicycles, mopeds and motorcycles.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Kreidler
- Company.type
- Private
- Company.industry
- Bicycles, mopeds, motorcycles
- Company.founded
- 1903
- Company.founder
- Anton Kreidler
- Company.defunct
- 1982 (original company)
- Company.area_served
- Europe
- Company.products
- Bicycles, mopeds, motorcycles
- Company.owner
- Prophete / Cycle Union GmbH (current brand owner)
- Company.headquarters
- Kornwestheim, Germany
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thumb|upright=1.35|1950s and '70s examples of the 50 cc Kreidler Florett Kreidler was a German manufacturer of bicycles, mopeds and motorcycles.
Kreidler was originally based in Kornwestheim, between Ludwigsburg and Stuttgart. It was founded in 1903 as "Kreidlers Metall- und Drahtwerke" (Kreidlers metal and wire factory) by Anton Kreidler and started to build motorcycles in 1951. In 1959 one third of all German motorcycles were Kreidler. In the 1970s Kreidler had very great success in motorsport. Especially in the Netherlands the riders Jan de Vries and Henk van Kessel were successful.