Abstract This essay looks at the history of the quintessential East German automobile, the Trabant, from a unique point of view. Rather than focusing on the Trabant as an object unto itself, this essay argues that the Trabant must be understood as integrated into a larger system of socialism, and the contradictions that this system produced. In particular, the notion of Eigen-Sinn helps illuminate the paradox of the Trabant as an embedded or interwoven object.

The Trabant was, from the point of view of the East German leadership and its bureaucracy, part of a larger, overarching 'system of movement' ( Bewegungssystem). In of itself, it was useful only as a means of moving people from origin to destination, and was only as important as its function allowed. The history of the massive housing projects built in the 1960s, 70s and 80s in East Germany as part of a utopian urban planning campaign illustrates the way in which the Trabant was folded into a broader vision of complete, holistic system integration in the ideal socialist urban space. In so doing, however, the Trabant became like many other pieces of the socialist puzzle, in that it, and its constituent parts, had to be simple, interchangeable, and easily understandable and fixable, even for its consumers in order to ensure the overall smooth functioning of the socialist system of movement, meaning that many Trabant owners could understand and repair their automobiles with a degree of expertise that few western car owners possessed or possess, and thus had a more individual relationship with their cars than many in the more individualized West. In 1957, at the VEB Plasta factory in Erkner on the south-eastern edge of Berlin, Rolf Weichert made a discovery. Weichert, the Research and Development director at VEB Plasta, successfully combined phenol with aniline and formaldehyde and cotton fibres to form a plastic flexible enough for use as the outer body of an automobile.

This particular phenol plastic was quickly put into use as the body of the GDR's main model of automobile, the Trabant. Weichert's ‘Trabantmasse’, or as it came to be affectionately known ‘Trabiplast’, quickly went into production for most of the outer body of the Trabant, making it the first widely produced plastic car in the world. Trabiplast, the main material of the Trabant, is the key to understanding not only the importance of the Trabant within East German or postwar German history, but also some of the more fundamental differences between the socialist and capitalist societies on either side of the Wall. A two-stroke engine is normally found in ‘speed specific’ devices that require high performance but not a wide range of power outputs, such as power tools, lawn-mowers, chainsaws, and light vehicles like scooters or go-karts. Most automobiles use four-stroke engines, also known as Otto engines, as did the Wartburg, produced in Eisenach. Resmed Apnealink Air Software Download on this page. The term stems from the number of strokes made by the piston inside the manifold.

For the two-stroke engine in the car industry in Saxony, as well as in the Trabant, see Theo Stiegler, Der Trabant wird 50!, Dresden, 2007, pp. See also Kirchberg, Plaste, Blech und Planwirtschaft, throughout.

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