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Zündapp was a significant German motorcycle manufacturer set up in 1917 in Nuremberg through Fritz Neumeyer, together with the Friedrich Krupp AG and the machine tool manufacturer Thiel beneath name "Zünder- und Apparatebau H. m. b. H. " as a producer of detonators (Zünder- und Apparatebau will be German for Igniter as well as Apparatus). In 1919, as the demand regarding weapons parts declined soon after WWI, Neumeyer became the sole proprietor with the company, and two years later he diversified into the construction of motorcycles.Following WWII, Zündapp expanded into the microcar, moped and Scooter (motorbike) markets. The company collapsed within 1984.Zuendap. biz markets markets pedal bike and electric bicycles while using Zundapp name and company logo. while Zuendapp.com markets "enduro-sport" motorcycles under the Zundapp brand.

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The initial Zündapp motorcycle was the actual model Z22 in 1921. This was the Motorrad für Jedermann ("motorcycle with regard to everyone"), a simple, reliable design that was stated in large series. Zündapp's history of heavy motorcycles began in 1933 with the K-series. The "K" refers to the kind of drivetrain that these designs used, Kardanantrieb, meaning enclosed driveshaft together with two universal joints. Zündapp introduced the enclosed crankcase (then a novelty). The series encompassed designs from 200 to eight hundred cc displacement and was a significant success, increasing Zündapp's market reveal in Germany from 5% within 1931 to 18% throughout 1937.The Zündapp KS600, first released in 1938, had a 28 hp (21 kW) width wise opposed twin cylinder generator with overhead valves displacing 597 closed circuit (36. 4 cu in). The KS600 was often along with a Steib sidecar, the BW38 (Beiwagen 1938). The BW38, fitted with the B1 (Trunk no. 1) sidecar human body was produced between 1938 along with 1941 and supplied exclusively on the Wehrmacht. While the KS600 was discontinued and in the end replaced by the purpose-built KS750, its motor was being the only remnant to live on beyond the destruction regarding war. When Zündapp returned to motorcycle production in the late 1940s, it chose to reuse the KS600's motor in order to power the KS601 using few modifications.The Zündapp K800 received unit construction, flat-four engines with shaft drive (a format adopted by Honda to the Gold Wing in 1974) and were the only real 4-cylinder machines used through the German armed forces with WWII.

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

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After WWII this company transitioned to smaller models, notably the "Bella" motor scooter, which was a relatively heavy machine due to the type. In 1951 Zündapp released the final of its heavy street motorcycle models, but one of its most well-known: the KS601 (the actual "green elephant") having a 598 cc two-cylinder motor. From 1957 to 1958 the business also produced the Zündapp Janus microcar.In 1958 the company moved from Nuremberg to help 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 good results in motorsports with driver André Malherbe winning your 125cc European motocross competition in 1973 and once more in 1974. Initially, Zündapp scooters and mopeds sold well, but later sales declined and in 1984 the corporation went bankrupt and closed.

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As soon as the bankruptcy, the entire production line and intellectual properties ended up being bought by Xunda Motor Co., Tianjin, China. They produced small Zündapp bikes from 1987 till the first 1990s. Zündapp is still in business, but makes Honda based 4-stroke motorcycles and power mopeds.Zündapp also had any technical collaboration with Regal Enfield (India) to create mopeds and motorcycles. A dedicated factory was built at Ranipet near Chennai inside early 1980s to production 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 as well as the 3-speed Explorer motorcycle. Later, 175 cc Enfield Fury (based on Zündapp KS175) was introduced as a performance motorcycle. It had 5-speed gearbox, a hydraulic Brembo disc brake and a sleeveless hard chromed tube barrel, all were a first using a motorcycle in that land.

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