August Lönnecker

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Winner of the Alpine Tour 1938, with Huschke von Hanstein and Lönnecker (2nd from left)

Georg Friedrich August Lönnecker (born April 2, 1905 in Afferde , Hanover Province , † January 6, 1981 in Hanover ) was a German motor vehicle mechanic .

Life

As the son of a railway official, August Lönnecker attended school in Afferde and Hameln from 1911 to 1919 . The family did not have the means to attend grammar school or to study Protestant theology . He was involved in the youth movement and went on hiking trips across northern Germany, the Baltic states and Scandinavia. As a talented draftsman, he made a cover sheet for Der Zupfgeigenhansl .

From 1919 to 1922 he did an apprenticeship as a locksmith and car mechanic at Selve Automobilwerke AG in Hameln. He stayed there until 1928 as a locksmith, motor vehicle mechanic and driver; among other things, he was the driver of the chassis . In 1929 he moved to Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart. In 1930 he returned to Hameln as a driver at Edeka . On July 4, 1931, he married Elfriede Bitter (1910–1996). The marriage resulted in two sons.

In 1932 he switched to Bosch as a car fitter and mechanic in Hameln. In 1933 he joined the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK), Motor-Ready Lower Saxony. From 1936 to 1952 he was a car fitter, mechanic and driver at Hanomag in Hanover. There he worked in the sports department, then in the research department under Karl Haeberle . From 1936 until the outbreak of war, he was also a student at the Technical University of Hanover in the subject of mechanical and automotive engineering. Due to the war, he did not get an engineering degree.

During the Second World War

Lönnecker was indispensable after the start of the war in 1939 and was not drafted into the Wehrmacht . During the air raids on Hanover he was an NSKK motorcyclist. As a specialist for axles , wheels , wheel suspensions and chain drives , he participated at Hanomag in the development of standard cars for the Wehrmacht , the SS 100 LN towing vehicle , the Sd.Kfz armored personnel carrier. 251 , Panther tank and jagdpanther . From 1940 he was test and exercise supervisor for tank chassis at military training areas throughout the German Reich . In 1944 he tested tanks in Pomerania . In 1945 he was a member of the Volkssturm in Hanover. Immediately after the war ended, John Deere tried to recruit him. ID and citizenship of the United States were already approved upon initial contact; only Lönnecker's passport photo and signature were missing. The fact that he did not accept the invitation was probably due to Lazar Shargorodsky (1882–1967). He brought the diesel engine to Hanomag in 1928 and survived the Third Reich as a (Jewish) chief engine designer. He also rejected the American offer in 1945 and stayed with Hanomag until 1948.

post war period

After 1945, Lönnecker built a motor vehicle workshop and constructed soap boxes with which his son Helmut Lönnecker (1940–1961) won numerous prizes at the city and state level. After passing the driving instructor exam in 1951 , he founded his own company in 1952. He retired in 1975 but remained a driving instructor until his death. As an enthusiastic Porsche 356 driver, he was a member of the Hanover Motorsport Club. He was an appraiser and expert for the Technical Monitoring Association Hanover and the ADAC .

The historian Harald Lönecker is a grandson .

Automobile sport

Lönnecker organized driving and performance tests of the NSKK as well as rallies in Lower Saxony , Northern Germany and East Prussia .

Races

  • Three-day low mountain range trip in 1937, Haeberle's co-driver
  • Deutsche Alpenfahrt 1938, co-driver of Fritz Huschke von Hanstein
  • Poland trip in 1938, Haeberle's co-driver
  • Finland trip in 1939, head of support for Haeberle's HANOMAG racing car
  • since 1950 numerous long-distance and price trips, including to Italy
  • multiple win of the Lower Saxony amateur touring championship

Participation in world records

Lönnecker was the support manager for the Hanomag diesel racing car . With him Haeberle set four world records on February 8, 1939 on the Dessau race track :

  • 5 km flying start 155.940 km / h
  • 5 mile flying start 155.550 km / h
  • 1 km standing start 86.870 km / h
  • 1 mile standing start 98.481 km / h

Honors

  • Golden ADAC badge of honor
  • Winner of numerous awards in motor vehicle sport

literature

  • Sigurd H. Loennecker: Johann Christian Loennecker and Hans Efterslekt - Slekten Tønsberg - Slekten Wiberg . Oslo 1956.
  • Sigurd H. Loennecker: Slekten Loennecker - Lönnecker. Johann Christian Loennecker and Hans Forfedre . Oslo 1968.
  • August Lönnecker (1905–1981). An obituary . OO (Hanover) 1981.

Web links

Commons : August Lönnecker  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Is record diesel going on maiden voyage in Hanover? , HAZ.de, 8 July 2018, accessed on the same day
  2. ↑ Hanomag Diesel
  3. ↑ Motorsport in Austria (Technical Museum Vienna)
  4. ↑ Hanomag diesel world record racing car Aviation Museum Hannover-Laazen  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.luftfahrtmuseum-hannover.de
  5. ↑ How Hitler thwarted Hanomag (HAZ)
  6. ↑ Holger Eggers, Horst-Dieter Görg: 75 years of world record drives near Dessau. The Hanomag diesel from Hanover . Hanover 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Lönnecker, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lönnecker, Georg Friedrich August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German car mechanic and automobile athlete
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Monkey earth
DATE OF DEATH January 6, 1981
Place of death Hanover