StattAuto [SEP] inception
StattAuto
StattAuto CarSharing GmbH, Berlin, was the first carsharing corporation in Germany and the second worldwide. It changed its name to Greenwheels AG in 2005.
History.
Beginning with one old private car in 1988, StattAuto was legally founded as a limited liability company in 1990. In 1998 StattAuto CarSharing GmbH, Berlin, united with StattAuto Hamburger CarSharing GmbH, which was founded in Hamburg in 1992, and formed a public limited company (PLC) with nearly 1400 shareholders, most of whom were active customers. In
December 2001 StattAuto became the first cooperation partner of Deutsche Bahn and got the right to distribute and operate the new carsharing trademark "DB CarSharing" exclusively in Berlin and Hamburg.
In 2004 StattAuto started offering carsharing services in Berlin, Hamburg, Potsdam and Rostock. That year, the biggest and most successful carsharing company of the Netherlands, Collect Car B.V., better known under its trademark "Greenwheels", bought the majority of StattAuto shares. At the end of 2005 Greenwheels kept 98.5% of StattAuto shares. In December 2005