Even though Rudolf Diesel was born to German parents on the 18th of March 1858 in Paris rather than Augsburg, he is without doubt one of Augsburg’s most famous sons. For it was here that he attended the “Königliche Kreis-Gewerbeschule”, now the Holbein Secondary School, from which he graduated with exceptional grades. And it was here that, in 1872, he made the decision to become an engineer: a decision that was to change the world. Moreover, Augsburg is where, from 1893 to 1897 on the site still occupied by MAN Diesel SE, he and engineers from MAN developed his groundbreaking invention, the eponymous diesel engine to the series-production stage.