Bernd Ziskofen
Bernd Ziskofen (born May 2, 1942 ; † November 9, 1993 in Hamburg ) was a German motorsport official in rallycross sport.
Life
As chairman of motorsport - club Automobile Club Niederelbe (ACN) of the merchant from worried Neugraben that the invented in February 1967 in England Rallycross came to Germany. Ziskofen and his colleagues succeeded in establishing the new motorsport in Buxtehude and in the course of the years turned Estering there into a rallycross Mecca for racing fans from many European countries. As a competition organizer, the first rallycross race on the Esteringtook place in May 1972, he was also instrumental in helping it in 1973 even unofficial for the first three years European Championship for the Autosport - discipline was definitively the end of 1975 by the FIA was adopted and will be held under the supervision since 1976 . Based on Ziskofen's initiative, the European Rallycross Association (ERA) was founded on December 14, 1974 at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands , and he was vice-president until his death.
In addition, Ziskofen was President of the German Rallycross Association (DRV), the rallycross specialist of the ONS (later replaced by the DMSB ) and an active member of the Off-Road Commission of the FIA. At the beginning of the 1980s he was able to prevent the Buxtehude race track from being closed when some neighbors protested over the four annual racing days because of the engine noise. After the plant had to be stopped in 1983, it was reopened at the beginning of 1984 with the approval of the authorities and then continuously modernized.
Ziskofen died of heart failure two days after an ERA meeting that he organized and helped lead in Hamburg.
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- MOTORSPORT aktuell , issue 48/93 from November 17, 1993, Bernd Ziskofen † - Rallycross is losing its driving force
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| SURNAME | Ziskofen, Bernd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur, rallycross official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1942 |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 9, 1993 |
| Place of death | Hamburg |