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Zündapp was a major German motorcycle manufacturer launched in 1917 in Nuremberg by simply Fritz Neumeyer, together with the Friedrich Krupp AG along with the machine tool manufacturer Thiel under the name "Zünder- und Apparatebau Gary. m. b. H. " as a developer of detonators (Zünder- und Apparatebau is German for Igniter along with Apparatus). In 1919, as the demand pertaining to weapons parts declined following WWI, Neumeyer became the sole proprietor on the company, and two years later he diversified to the construction of motorcycles.Following WWII, Zündapp expanded into the actual microcar, moped and Scooter (bike) markets. The company collapsed with 1984.Zuendap. biz markets markets pedal bike and electric bicycles using the Zundapp name and emblem. while Zuendapp.com markets "enduro-sport" motorcycles under the Zundapp brand.

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The 1st Zündapp motorcycle was your model Z22 in 1921. This was the Motorrad für Jedermann ("motorcycle for everyone"), a simple, reliable design that was stated in large series. Zündapp's history of hefty motorcycles began in 1933 with all the K-series. The "K" refers to the kind of drivetrain that these models used, Kardanantrieb, meaning enclosed driveshaft with two universal joints. Zündapp introduced the enclosed crankcase (then a novelty). The series encompassed products from 200 to 800 cc displacement and was a serious success, increasing Zündapp's market talk about in Germany from 5% within 1931 to 18% within 1937.The Zündapp KS600, first released in 1938, had a 28 hp (21 kW) horizontally opposed twin cylinder electric motor with overhead valves displacing 597 cc (36. 4 cu in). The KS600 was often in addition to a Steib sidecar, the BW38 (Beiwagen 1938). The BW38, fitted with the B1 (Footwear no. 1) sidecar entire body was produced between 1938 as well as 1941 and supplied exclusively towards the Wehrmacht. While the KS600 was discontinued and eventually replaced by the purpose-built KS750, its motor was to become the only remnant to reside beyond the destruction associated with war. When Zündapp returned to motorcycle production in the late 1940s, it chose to recycle the KS600's motor to power the KS601 together with few modifications.The Zündapp K800 acquired unit construction, flat-four engines with base drive (a layout adopted by Honda to the Gold Wing in 1974) and were the only real 4-cylinder machines used with the German armed forces with WWII.

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Via 1931 Ferdinand Porsche and also Zündapp developed the prototype Automobile für Jedermann ("car for everyone"), which was the very first time that the name Volkswagen was used. Porsche preferred the 4-cylinder flat engine, but Zündapp used some sort of water-cooled 5-cylinder radial powerplant. In 1932 three prototypes ended up running. All three cars were lost during the war, the last in the 1945 Stuttgart bombing raid.From 1936 to 1938 Zündapp produced the KKS500 model. This was the first Zündapp which has a foot gear change, and 170 examples were built. From 1940 onward Zündapp produced greater than 18, 000 units of the particular Zündapp KS 750. This is a sidecar outfit having a driven side wheel and a locking differential, supplied to the The german language Wehrmacht.Zündapp also made aircraft engines including the 9-092, which was used within light aircraft, including the Brunswick LF-1 Zaunkönig (1942) ab initio trainer aircraft.

After WWII the corporation transitioned to smaller models, notably the "Bella" electric motor scooter, which was a relatively heavy machine to its type. In 1951 Zündapp released the last of its heavy street bike models, but one of its most well-known: the KS601 (the actual "green elephant") having a 598 cc two-cylinder serps. From 1957 to 1958 the company also produced the Zündapp Janus microcar.In 1958 the corporation moved from Nuremberg to be able to Munich. Subsequently, the company developed various new smaller models, discontinued the development of four-stroke engines in support of produced two-stroke models. Zündapp experienced some accomplishment in motorsports with riders André Malherbe winning this 125cc European motocross competition in 1973 and all over again in 1974. Initially, Zündapp scooters and mopeds offered well, but later sales declined and in 1984 the organization went bankrupt and shut down.

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Following the bankruptcy, the entire production brand and intellectual properties seemed to be bought by Xunda Generator Co., Tianjin, China. They produced small Zündapp bicycles from 1987 till early 1990s. Zündapp is still operational, but makes Honda primarily based 4-stroke motorcycles and electric powered mopeds.Zündapp also had a technical collaboration with Noble Enfield (India) to develop mopeds and motorcycles. A dedicated factory had been built at Ranipet near Chennai from the early 1980s to produce small, lightweight two-stroke motorcycles to be offered along with their flagship Royal Enfield Topic. Enfield launched two 50 cc motorcycles first, the step-thru Silver Plus and the 3-speed Explorer motorcycle. Later, 175 cc Enfield Fury (based on Zündapp KS175) was introduced like a performance motorcycle. It had 5-speed gearbox, a hydraulic Brembo disc brake along with a sleeveless hard chromed cyndrical tube barrel, all were a first using a motorcycle in that nation.

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