It was designed with rear-wheel drive and switchable front-wheel drive, with equal-size wheels, in order to be driven on roads at higher speeds than standard farm tractors. The first model was designed by Albert Friedrich and Heinrich Rößler shortly after World War II to be used in agriculture as a self-propelled machine providing a power take-off to operate saws in forests or harvesting machines on fields. under licence from 1968 until 1983 (with some extra units built until 1991 off the assembly line from parts in stock) in the González Catán factory near the city of Buenos Aires, as stated in the book "El Unimog en el Ejército Argentino", by argentine author and historian Gaston Javier Garcia Loperena in 2015. Unimogs were also built in Argentina (first ever country to do so outside Germany) by Mercedes-Benz Argentina S.A. plant assembles Unimogs in Aksaray, Turkey. Since 2002, the Unimog has been built in the Mercedes-Benz truck plant in Wörth am Rhein in Germany. However, the first Unimog to feature the three-pointed Mercedes-Benz star was only introduced in 1953.
From 1951, the Unimog was sold under the Mercedes-Benz brand. Daimler-Benz took over manufacture of the Unimog in 1951, and first produced it in their Gaggenau plant. Unimog production started in 1948 at Boehringer in Göppingen.
In the United States and Canada, the Unimog was sold as the Freightliner Unimog.
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