Cars and beyond 1926 - 1945

Bosch negotiated the rapids of economic crisis and National Socialist diktats with innovative strength and endurance till the second world war posed renewed immense challenges.

Diesel-injection pump — the second linchpin

Many years in the making, in 1927 an innovation came to fruition that would last right up to this day — the diesel-injection pump. This was the reaction of Bosch to the further development of diesel engines, which in contrast to gasoline engines required no magneto ignition. Initially used only in trucks, the first diesel-injection pump for cars went to market in 1936.

More strings to the bow — new lines of business

A major crisis in the German automotive industry led the automotive supplier Bosch to rethink its product portfolio from 1926 on. This inspired a combination of strategies that had proved successful in the past — the improvement of products and developing them to series production stage, as with power tools and thermotechnology, in tandem with entirely new endeavors, such as radio and television technology.

The Bosch fridge, launched in 1933, was meant to be affordable enough for more households to buy.

Music on the road was no longer an elusive dream when Bosch and Blaupunkt engineers brought Europe's first car radio tothe series production stage in 1932.

In 1932, Bosch founded the current division with the acquisition of the thermotechnology section of Hugo Junkers.