VARTA AG (in Germana: Vertrieb, Aufladung, Reparatur transportabler Akkumulatoren) is a German company manufacturing batteries for global automotive, industrial, and consumer markets. VARTA was founded by Adolf Müller in 1887, and established in 1904 as a subsidiary of Accumulatoren-Fabrik AFA. After World War I, VARTA together with AFA was acquired by German industrialist Günther Quandt and Industrialist and VARTA CEO Dr. Carl Hermann Roderbourg. After World War II, most of the VARTA shares passed from Günther Quandt to his son, Herbert Quandt.