The Messerschmitt KR 175, the first microcar, was invented by Fritz Fend, a onetime Luftwaffe engineer. After the war, he turned to designing wheelchairs, first with a hand-operated drive and later with a gasoline engine. The last version—the two-seat Fend 150—became the prototype of the Messerschmitt KR 175. When the Messerschmitt company was banned from producing military aircraft, which had been its main output for several years, it began to produce other things, including Fend’s so-called Kabinenrollers, or cabin-equipped scooters.
