General Schnauferl Club

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The Allgemeine Schnauferl Club e. V. (ASC) was founded on May 25, 1900 in Nuremberg . The ASC currently has around 1,500 members and deals with the maintenance and tradition of classic vehicles. The ASC is a co-founder and member of the world classic car association Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens (FIVA).

Organization and structure

The Presidium is nationwide and represents the club externally. Internally, the ASC is organized in 15 independent regional groups. Each regional group has its own presidium. The ASC Presidium and the presidents of the regional groups form the "Extended Presidium".

history

founding

The idea to found the company arose on the occasion of a visit by five motorists on May 25, 1900 to the Rheinische Gasmotoren-Fabrik Benz over an asparagus dinner. At the general motor vehicle exhibition in Nuremberg organized by the Franconian Automobile Club on June 18, 1900, 18 automobile pioneers called the Intern. Auto Asparagus Club into life. The asparagus in the club name was shortly thereafter by the term Schnauferl replaced. The asparagus icon in the club crest in 1901 by a De Dion-Bouton - cylinder engine replaced. Gustav Braunbeck was appointed president.

The club should not know any class differences among motorists, make no demands, and cultivate sociability and camaraderie. This found particular expression in the address Schnauferlbruder (SB) and Ehrenschnauferlbruder. The club saw itself as a sociable association of motorists.

In the founding years, the social life of the ASC took place in Berlin and Munich . In the 1920s, the Cologne regional group and the Mannheim and Baden-Palatinate sections were formed as the first regional state groups in 1927 . In 1938 the regional groups Baden-Saar-Palatinate-Hesse, Berlin-Brandenburg and Hamburg were added.

The influx of prominent motorists, manufacturers, nobles and motor sports enthusiasts was enormous in the period up to the beginning of the Second World War . The ASC had 120 members at the first general meeting on October 13, 1901 . The Berliner Morgenpost wrote in 1902: "In any case, it is [note: the ASC] currently the strangest and most interesting automobile club that exists". Since there were no permanent club locations in the founding years, the members met at the venue for automotive events. Hence the presence of the ASC at all major automotive sporting events and exhibitions . In 1906, 550 members were already organized in the ASC. The annual membership fee for domestic members was 25  marks and 50 marks for foreign members.

The most prominent member was Carl Friedrich Benz, the brother of honor until his death in 1929 . At a meeting of the ASC on May 12, 1901, on the occasion of the Mannheim-Pforzheim-Mannheim race, his name appears for the first time in the meeting book. His wife Bertha and his sons Richard and Eugen were also present. Richard and Eugen Benz were actively involved in club life until their death in the 1950s.

Impulses for automobilization

Shortly after the establishment of these hosted a contest that a German name for the new, with a motor sought equipped vehicle. The winner was the suggestion "Aut" for automobile as well as the derivatives "Autler" and "auteln".

Sir Hubert Ritter von Herkomer founded the Herkomer competitions of 1905, 1906 and 1907. These reliability tests for touring cars were the trigger for today's modern rally sport . His aim was to “breed a touring car that was as practical and reliable as possible”. Prince Heinrich of Prussia continued the tradition of the Herkomer competitions with the Prinz Heinrich run as a reliability run from 1908 to 1911.

ASC member Oberleutnant Hans Koeppen made an important contribution to the reputation of the automobile in Germany in 1908 as a participant in the New York - Paris trip. After more than 5 months he was the first to reach Paris with his Protos car. The victory was revoked because he had transported his car part of the route by train.

The time between the wars

Activities largely ceased during the First World War from 1914 to 1918. Despite the high loss of members, the 20th anniversary of the ASC was celebrated on December 4, 1920 with 118 members in Berlin. As early as September 1921, the club was able to go public again on the occasion of the first automobile exhibition after the war, at which only German products were shown .

As part of the first German Transport Exhibition in Munich in 1925, the ASC organized a parade of historic automobiles. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: "... more than 100,000 - crowded the streets around the northern Theresienwiese on July 12, 1925 , when the Allgemeine Schnauferl Club celebrated its Silver Jubilee with a unique pageant at the feet of Bavaria." The parade was led by 14 Benz and 6 Daimler cars. The celebrated focus of the event was the honorary brother Dr. H. c. Carl Friedrich Benz , his wife Bertha and the sons Richard and Eugen. His son Eugen chauffeured him in the Victoria from 1893 in the historic parade. On the fringes of the event, the 82-year-old man once again moved the original motorized tricycle from 1886. He had bequeathed it to the Deutsches Museum in Munich in 1906 .

On July 24, 1933, under the National Socialists, the coordination of all German automobile clubs began to form the united front of the German motor vehicle and finally on September 27, 1933 to become the German automobile club . The largest of the synchronized clubs were: the Allgemeine Deutsche Automobil-Club (ADAC), Automobilclub von Deutschland (AvD), the Deutsche Touring Club and the Nationale Deutsche Automobilklub . The ASC was the only automobile club to be spared conformity and retained its independence . The club life was reduced during this time and came almost completely to a standstill with the outbreak of the Second World War.

The years after the Second World War

Some of the automobile clubs that have been brought into line are re-established. In 1946 the General German Automobile Club (ADAC) and in 1948 the Automobile Club of Germany (AvD). The ASC, which had never ceased to exist, was reactivated on June 17, 1949 by the traditional Baden-Palatinate-Hesse regional group.

The regional groups of Berlin, Hanseatic Cities and Schleswig-Holstein and Rhineland-Westphalia follow in 1949 . The first general assembly of the ASC after the Second World War takes place on May 14, 1950 in Mannheim . A new version of the statutes made the club a registered association (eV). Excerpt from the statutes: "... maintaining the tradition of the automotive industry, promoting motor traffic and motor sport events ...". Further regional groups were founded: North Bavaria 1952, South Bavaria 1953, Lower Saxony 1958, Westphalia and Rhineland in 1968 , South Westphalia in 1969 and Rhine-Ruhr in 1974 .

With the revival of the Schnauferl-Balls and the 1st German Veteran Car Rallye in 1956, the ASC also appears again in social and sporting terms. The annual ASC oldtimer rallies were given the name Deutsche Schnauferl Rallye, which is still valid today, from 1962 . These are alternately organized by a national group. Up until this point in time, the ASC saw itself as the “Sociable Autler Association”, but now the idea of ​​maintaining tradition and promoting veteran vehicles (oldtimers) came to the fore.

1966 was office of the ASC in the newly built Ernst Wilhelm Sachs House in Motodrom the Hockenheimring laid. An international Schnauferlzentrum was to be created as a meeting point for European classic car drivers. As early as 1969, the ASC renounced this branch location due to the local remoteness.

Schnauferl balls

Social highlights of club life were the Schnauferl balls organized by the ASC. As part of the 9th  International Motor Show (IAA) in Berlin, the 1st German Automobile Ball took place on February 7, 1906 in the Kroll Opera (Neues Royal Opera Theater). The Schnauferl balls were continued until the Second World War. On September 24, 1955, on the occasion of the 37th IAA, the first Schnauferl Ball after the Second World War took place in the Congress Hall in Frankfurt am Main . Co-organizers were the General German Automobile Club (ADAC) and the Automobile Club of Germany (AvD). Every two years, more Schnauferl balls were held during the IAA. In the 1960s, the ASC organized the balls on its own again. From 1965 the venue was the Zoo Society House in Frankfurt and from 1967 in the ballroom of the Hotel Frankfurt Intercontinental. To increase the exclusivity with exclusively personal invitations as a "ball of the automotive industry". In the late 1970s, the Schnauferl balls were discontinued for economic reasons.

Reunion and reorientation

In 1998 the state group Saxony / Saxony-Anhalt was re-established, in 2008 the state group Hammonia was founded in the Hamburg area. The LG Württemberg-Hohenzollern, also founded in 2008 in the south as the 14th regional group, has had the first group beyond the borders with the Lech-Arlberg district group since spring 2019. Since 2001 it has been possible for women to become a Schnauferldame (SD).

Das Schnauferl - club magazine

From 1901 onwards the joke sheet “Das Schnauferl - Fliegende Blätter für Autler Humor ” was published by the Braunbeckschen Verlagsgesellschaft . From April 1902 the broader formulation "... for sport humor" was chosen. Further attempts to publish an ASC club magazine failed economically.

It was not until 1953 that the club magazine Das Schnauferl was published by the Automobil-Revue publishing house , owner and director August Christ, Frankfurt a. Main published. The contract with the in August Christian and son KG renamed Verlag ran until 1975. From 1973 to 1975, the ASC newspaper as a supplement was Deutsche Automobil Revue from A. Christian magazine publisher beige attached. From 1975 to 1985 an ASC news page was printed in the publications Automobil Chronik and later Automobil und Motorrad Chronik published by Schrader Verlag . In 1985 the Motor Klassik became the official club magazine with the "Schnauferl" as a black and white printed supplement sheet. Since 2003 Das Schnauferl has been published as an independent, colored magazine by the ASC itself.

Membership in associations

The ASC is a co-founder and active member of the World Classic Car Association, the Fédération Internationale des Véhicules Anciens (FIVA). ASC President Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg was President of FIVA from 1983 to 1996.

President

  • 1900–1928: Gustav Braunbeck
  • 1928–1932: Ernst Sachs
  • 1932–1941: Willy Vogel
  • 1942–19xx: Hermann Lucke
  • 1949–1954: Carl Werner
  • 1955-1960: HG Schoof
  • 1961–1966: Rudolf H. Mosting
  • 1967–1980: Paul-Heinz Röhll
  • 1981–1993: Kraft zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg
  • 1993–1999: Berthold Rückwarth
  • 1999–2008: Dieter Herrmann
  • since 2008: Uwe Brodbeck

Prominent members

literature

  • We call it responsibility, 100 years of the General Schnauferl Club . Festschrift, Richard Kitschigin
  • General Schnauferlclub e. V., 55 years of the Hessen State Group . Festschrift, June 11, 2005

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