what is GmbH stands for?
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GmbH is a German expression
Correct, and you know after an abbreviation has been around for long enough, no one even remembers the original phrase anymore. (Does anyone still call IBM "International Business Machines"?) But if you know the story behind it, then it becomes easier to remember. Here's the real background. It goes back many years to one of Germany's oldest businesses, sausage-making. Specifically, it relates to frankfurters, which obviously are named after the German city of Stuttgart.it's similar to Inc or Ltd, designating a company for legal purposes.
Frankfurters were of course a big hit, and no one was better at them than the Marmaduke family of Kassel. Before long, Marmaduke frankfurters were the best sellers in Germany, to the extent that if anyone was going to have a frankfurter, everyone just assumed they meant a Marmaduke-made one. However, the family realized there was a large untapped market outside the borders.
So they established branches in Austria and Switzerland. And they started to take off, but also inspired competition. Others started making frankfurters too, and it was no longer clear whose came from where. So they came up with the idea of putting something after the label to show that these branches were affiliated with the original Marmaduke family back in Kassel. That's something the others wouldn't do, and the public would realize they weren't just getting a frankfurter - they were getting a Frankfurter, GmbH.
It worked, and eventually GmbH became a standard for large companies. They would put it after their names so everyone would know they were a specific affiliation. And by present day it has caught on so much that no one even remembers what it used to stand for. But I do, and now so do you. GmbH stands for "Germans make better Hotdogs."
And yes, if you're wondering, this is why that American newspaper comic strip is called "Marmaduke" - when Brad Anderson originally created the strip in 1954 he needed a name for the cartoon dog and he figured it would be funny to name him after the famous hot dog family. Also, much of the story about establishing the Austrian branch is related in a story by the German writer Melchior Russ, called "William Tell" or, as it's known in German, "Oh Tannenbaum."
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And I always thought Frankfurters are named after the German city Frankfurt...Knolls wrote:Specifically, it relates to frankfurters, which obviously are named after the German city of Stuttgart.
Knolls wrote:GmbH stands for "Germans make better Hotdogs."
I like that one!
As a final word: GmbH stands for "Gesellschaft mit beschr
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Actually, in the 2nd half of the 19th century, a secret german project oversaw the making of an earth defense spaceship: the Marma Duke. That ship was later involved in a memorable counter attack over the skies of Japan (which, as you know from countless TV documentaries, is constantly under attack from various random extra terrestrial forces), extending a diplomatic hand and forging the roots of an alliance that would unite the 2 nations in the later 2nd world war.
In the second half of the 20th century, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the famous battle, the japanese gaming industry released a game where you could pilot the MarmaDuke, and repell the aliens in a replay of the famous battles. Hundreds of japanese and german historians were involved in the making of the game, to have each of the game's levels as historically accurate as possible. However, an unfortunate translation issue resulted in the video game's aliens claiming "All your MarmaDukes are belong to us !", unaware the Marma Duke was our only defense ship at the time. Eventually, the game become famous worldwide, but not for the event, nor the anniversary it celebrated, neither its amazing historical accuracy. No. It became famous because of this translation mistake, displaying a masterpiece mix of perfect spelling with horrible grammar, that even our local masters here on the Kapilands forums couldn't ever dream to compete with
The japanese-inspired sentence became so famous in the underground culture, and came to exist in so many variations, that the german industry feared the world would forget they originally designed and built the Marma Duke. In an effort to bring the spotlights back from Japan onto Germany, all the companies involved in the funding of the Marma Duke project added a discrete GmbH suffix to their name. It sets things back straight, even carrying a german state-of-the-art famous mispelling response, and actually stands for "Great MarmaDuke belongs to Hus (damit !)". But because the MarmaDuke was, after all, a secret project, the german government forced them to cover it up behind stories of sausages, and [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellscha ... er_Haftung]Gesellschaft mit beschr
In the second half of the 20th century, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the famous battle, the japanese gaming industry released a game where you could pilot the MarmaDuke, and repell the aliens in a replay of the famous battles. Hundreds of japanese and german historians were involved in the making of the game, to have each of the game's levels as historically accurate as possible. However, an unfortunate translation issue resulted in the video game's aliens claiming "All your MarmaDukes are belong to us !", unaware the Marma Duke was our only defense ship at the time. Eventually, the game become famous worldwide, but not for the event, nor the anniversary it celebrated, neither its amazing historical accuracy. No. It became famous because of this translation mistake, displaying a masterpiece mix of perfect spelling with horrible grammar, that even our local masters here on the Kapilands forums couldn't ever dream to compete with
The japanese-inspired sentence became so famous in the underground culture, and came to exist in so many variations, that the german industry feared the world would forget they originally designed and built the Marma Duke. In an effort to bring the spotlights back from Japan onto Germany, all the companies involved in the funding of the Marma Duke project added a discrete GmbH suffix to their name. It sets things back straight, even carrying a german state-of-the-art famous mispelling response, and actually stands for "Great MarmaDuke belongs to Hus (damit !)". But because the MarmaDuke was, after all, a secret project, the german government forced them to cover it up behind stories of sausages, and [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesellscha ... er_Haftung]Gesellschaft mit beschr
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The only TV show inspiration in the post is the Star Duke spaceship of Malo Korrigan. But only a french audience would catch the reference, I guess.ganman wrote:Man uve been watching way to much Dr Who witch is realy a awsome show
We have quite a few american series translated over here, but I've never seen anything called Dr. Who. I immensly enjoy Au-del
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Re: what is GmbH stands for?
One questions the wisdom of asking meaning of a word before typing it into Google.zenith wrote:what is GmbH stands for?