Veritas
Veritas was a West German post World War II sports and race car company, located in the village of Hausen am Andelsbach, near Sigmaringen, Baden-Württemberg. It later moved to Meßkirch and Muggensturm and finally to the Nürburgring. The company was founded by Ernst Loof, Georg Meier and Lorenz Dietrich who initially re-built and tuned pre-war BMW 328 cars using components supplied by the customer, turning them into BMW-Veritas cars.
Veritas

PerOX · Public domain
- Founded
- 1947.
- Headquarters
- Germany.
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Veritas was a West German post World War II sports and race car company, located in the village of Hausen am Andelsbach, near Sigmaringen, Baden-Württemberg. It later moved to Meßkirch and Muggensturm and finally to the Nürburgring. The company was founded by Ernst Loof, Georg Meier and Lorenz Dietrich who initially re-built and tuned pre-war BMW 328 cars using components supplied by the customer, turning them into BMW-Veritas cars.
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Note VALÉORINE
No house-authored Note is published until its assertions and sources pass the VALÉORINE evidence contract. The documentary article remains available in full while that enrichment is being consolidated.
Documentary enrichment in progress · no unsupported statement published
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Veritas. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
Documentary evidence
Evidence Panel
not yet certified
- Identity
- resolved
- Independent source families
- 0
- Admitted assertions
- 0
- Open conflicts
- 0
Authority files
gnd · 1157883125 · wikidata · Q700373
In this article
Overview
Overview
The first car was used in 1947 by Karl Kling to win at Hockenheim and subsequently become the 1947 German 2-litre champion. After only a few cars were made, following an objection from BMW, the cars became simply known as Veritas.

1949 Veritas C 90 Coupe
MartinHansV

1949 Veritas C 90 Coupe
MartinHansV
Key facts
Key facts
• Industry — Automotive • Founders — Ernst Loof, Georg Meier and Lorenz Dietrich • Products — Automobiles
Road cars
Road cars
The first Veritas to be made for normal road use were made in 1949 with the launch of the Komet coupé which was little more than a Veritas RS made street legal. It was followed by the more civilised 2+2 Saturn coupé and Scorpion cabriolet, both being styled by Ben Bowden. The company moved to larger premises in Muggensturm in 1949 but they were badly undercapitalised. New cars were designed using a 1998 cc engine designed Eric Zipprich and built by Heinkel. Over 200 orders were received for the new car but there was not enough money to buy the components and production came to a halt in 1950. The company continued in operation until 1952 by making new bodies for Panhard cars. Ernst Loof moved to the Nürburgring in 1950 where he rented the old Auto Union workshops and set up a new company Automobilwerke Ernst Loof GmbH and started a new range of Veritas cars with the Heinkel manufactured engine and saloon or cabriolet coachwork by Spohn. Money quickly ran out however and the final bodies were fitted with Ford or Opel engines. The number of cars made at the Nürburgring is estimated to be between 6 and 20.
Racing cars
Racing cars
• Illustration — Veritas Meteor Formula 2 • Illustration — Cockpit of Veritas Meteor • Illustration — 6-cyl-engine of Veritas • Illustration — Veritas RS2000 CCM at the Concours d'Elegance • Illustration — Veritas RS (1948) unpainted with the 6-cylinder-engine of the BMW 328, 1971 cm³, about 125 HP 2014 at the Salzburgring A total of 17 privately entered Veritas cars participated in 5 FIA World Championship races.
Later production (after 2001)
Later production (after 2001)
After a virtual disappearance from motor racing and automotive engineering for nearly 50 years, a small company known as VerMot AG of Grafschaft, Rhineland planned to revive the Veritas name. It produced a concept known as the Veritas RS III in 2001, initially using a BMW sourced 6.0 litre V-12, producing 670 hp. Over the following years pre-production models of the RS III were exhibited at trade shows and used as press demonstrators. The motor was changed to a 5 litre BMW unit. In 2011 VerMot announced that the RS III would be offered as a hybrid with an additional electric motor, and that a fully electric version was in planning. Various dates from 2008 onwards were announced for the start of production of the RS III, but this appears to have failed to occur and by 2014 the company was dormant.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Veritas RS3 • Manufacturer — Veritas • Production — 2009 • Assembly — Nürburg, Germany • Class — Sports car (S) • Body Style — 2-door Speedster • Layout — FMR • Engine — BMW S85B50 507 hp 5.0L V10 • Transmission — 6-speed manual, 6-speed sequential, 7-speed sequential • Wheelbase — 2700 mm (106.3 in) • Length — 4680 mm (184.3 in) • Width — 2020 mm (79.5 in) • Height — 970 mm (38.2 in) • Weight — 1080 kg
World Championship results
World Championship results
(key) • Year — Entrant/s — Chassis — Engine — Driver/s — 1 — 2 — 3 — 4 — 5 — 6 — 7 — 8 — 9 • SUI — 500 — BEL — FRA — GBR — GER — ITA — ESP • Privateer — Meteor — Veritas Straight-6 — Peter Hirt — Ret • SUI — 500 — BEL — FRA — GBR — GER — NED — ITA • Privateers — Meteor RS — BMW Straight-6 Veritas Straight-6 — Toni Ulmen — Ret — 8 • Arthur Legat — NC • Josef Peters — Ret • Hans Klenk — 11 • Adolf Brudes — Ret • Theo Helfrich — Ret • Fritz Rieß — 7 • Motor-Presse-Verlag — Meteor — Veritas Straight-6 — Paul Pietsch — Ret • ARG — 500 — NED — BEL — FRA — GBR — GER — SUI — ITA • Privateers — Meteor RS — Veritas Straight-6 — Arthur Legat — Ret • Erwin Bauer — Ret • Ernst Loof — Ret • Oswald Karch — Ret • Willi Heeks — Ret • Theo Helfrich — 12 • Wolfgang Seidel — 16 • Hans Klenk — Meteor — Veritas Straight-6 — Hans Herrmann — 9
Institutional history
Dated record
Institutional history
Explore 1947–1953
The full dated record · 5 entries
1947
Veritas established.
1947
Veritas is recorded from 1947.
1947
Veritas was established or created in 1947.
1953
Veritas ceased.
1953
Veritas was dissolved or ceased in 1953.
Primary material
Documents and archives
authority file
- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1157883125, Veritas.
Unverified · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q700373: Veritas
Unverified · Wikidata
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
authority file
Gemeinsame Normdatei 1157883125, Veritas.Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
Partially resolvedauthority record
Unverified
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 14 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Collectables
20,755 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Venus & BravesWork
- Venus for MenTerminology
- Venus The FlytrapWork
- VerdunWork
- VermontOrganisation
- VermorelOrganisation
- Verne WorldWork
- VerquereTerminology
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own an object connected with Veritas?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.