(Today, 4:11 p.m.) Hohndorf (dpa) – Motorenwerke Zschopau GmbH (MZ) filed for insolvency. The successor of the GDR success company filed the application for insolvency with restructuring plan on Friday at the district court of Chemnitz. In this way, one responds to a short-term loan, which should provide an important start-up financing for new products, said an MZ speaker on Saturday. Thus, a financing gap cannot be bridged in the short term. The company hopes that the operation can be continued and that as many of the 49 jobs as possible will be maintained. In the MZ plant, electric scooters are mainly produced. In the revival of the successful GDR tradition, the company relies heavily on future-oriented alternative drives, such as small-power scooters with hybrid drive, according to its own statements. in Brussels at the end of September to present a newly developed transport tricycle for mail delivery, the engine plants announced on Saturday. Managing Director Martin Wimmer had not taken over the Zschopau engine plants until 2009 from a Malaysian company that wanted to close the plant due to many years of losses. The two-wheel production in Zschopau was once a success story: the DKW (Dampf-Kraft-Wagen) factory, founded by the Dane Jörg Skafte Rasmussen, produced 300 cars from 1928 onwards. Two-wheelers daily and became the largest motorcycle manufacturer in the world. At the time of the GDR, the engine plants Zschopau followed this tradition and delivered around 85,000 machines to 100 countries each year.