Clärenore Stinnes

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Clärenore Stinnes (1930), detail from a photograph by Robert Sennecke .

Clärenore Stinnes (also Clairenore ; baptismal name Clara Eleonore , married Stinnes-Söderström ; born January 21, 1901 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ; † September 7, 1990 in Sweden ) was a successful German racing driver. From 1927 to 1929 she was the first person to lap a series-produced passenger car with Carl-Axel Söderström- a cameraman, photographer and occasionally driver of an escort vehicle who was already designated at the time - the earth. For many sections of the route, there were still no roads suitable for cars. She later worked in agriculture in southern Sweden.

Life

Clärenore Stinnes at a dance ball at the Berlin Secession in 1926. Photography: Zander & Labisch .
Stinnes circled the earth in an Adler Standard 6
Clärenore Stinnes together with Carl-Axel Söderström (1930), detail from a photograph by Robert Sennecke .

Clärenore was born on January 21, 1901, the third of seven children of industrialist Hugo Stinnes and his wife Clare . After finishing school, she was used as confidante and secretary by her father until his death. After his death in 1924, her mother insisted on separating them from the company in favor of the sons.

When she was 24, she took part in a car race for the first time . By 1927 she was able to celebrate 17 racing victories almost exclusively against men, making her the most successful female racing driver in Europe.

With two technicians and the married photographer Carl-Axel Söderström , whom she had only met two days before departure, as well as an Adler half-ton truck with gasoline and spare parts, she set off on a trip around the world on May 25, 1927 in a standard Adler Standard 6 on. The vehicle model was manufactured ready for series production for the first time that year. Clärenore Stinnes, who also advertised German products abroad with her trip, financed the expedition through sponsors such as Bosch and Aral and was supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and German missions abroad.

For her "personal protection" she was also accompanied by two wirehaired terriers, Billy and Lilly . Paul von Hindenburg was the First President of the Reich who had signed up in her travel book .

The journey went through Siberia and the Gobi desert to Beijing via the Balkans and Moscow , where only one technician gave up one and a few stages later . The milestones were continuously documented on film. They took the ship to Japan and then via Hawaii to North America. They then crossed Central America and South America via Buenos Aires and further over the Andes to Valparaíso (Chile) and back to Vancouver by ship . The journey led across the USA via Washington, DC , where they were received by President Herbert Hoover , to New York . The crossing to Europe took place by ship. The two docked in Le Havre and drove from there to the reception at the AVUS in Berlin . After driving 46,063 kilometers (according to the docudrama filmed in 2008/09 even 46,758 km) they reached the German capital again on June 24, 1929. The circumnavigation of the world took two years and a month. Africa and Australia were not touched by the route. In honor of Söderström, Clärenore Stinnes decided to continue to Stockholm , with which they reached 49,244 kilometers and were celebrated again.

After their return and Söderström's divorce from his first wife, Stinnes and Söderström married in December 1930. As a new livelihood they ran an estate in southern Sweden . In addition to three of their own children, they also raised several foster children there. In later years the Stinnes-Söderström couple always spent part of the year in Irmenach .

Movies

In addition to the original film, “In the car through two worlds” (Söderström / Stinnes, 1931), there is now a documentary film and two more recent documentaries. The 2008/09 documentary film Fräulein Stinnes travels around the world with Sandra Hüller in the title role tells about Clärenore Stinnes' adventurous journey. Directed by Erica von Moeller, the script was written by Sönke Lars Neuwöhner .

In 2015, a 53-minute film documentary was produced: Around the world by car - Clärenore's adventures by Kirsten Hoehne, Annette Heinrich / Anja Kindler, Annika Seemann and Saskia Weisheit (produced by Spiegel-TV and WDR ). It built on the work of C. Stinnes and Michael Kuball, The Woman Who Rode Around the World , from 1983/1986. They also used some new interviews with children, nieces and nephews of Stinnes and the silent film documentary Söderström from the twenties, which was only set to music in Europe. This documentary emphasizes that Stinnes was the leader of the small team who relentlessly pushed the three men and the many helpers on the stages along the way, sometimes to the point of exhaustion from the lethal cold, heat and previously untravelled terrain. In the rest of her life, she made no fuss about her achievements, but she also attributed the lack of media coverage to the gender aspect: that such achievements were actually not expected from a woman at the time.

literature

  • Clärenore Stinnes: Through two worlds in a car. Photos by Carl-Axel Söderström. Reimar Hobbing, Berlin 1929 (new edition: Promedia, Vienna 1996, ISBN 3853711057 ).
  • Carl-Axel Söderström, Gabriele Habinger: A woman travels around the world: The spectacular journey of the Clärenore Stinnes 1927–1929. Frederking & Thaler, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-95416-223-9 .
  • Michael Kuball, Clärenore Söderström: Söderström's photo diary 1927 - 1929. A woman's first car trip around the world. Krüger, Frankfurt am Main 1981, ISBN 3-810517089 .
  • Michael Winter: Horse strengths. The love of life of the Clärenore Stinnes. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2004, ISBN 3-499-23536-6 .
  • Monika Pöschke-Schröder: The first circumnavigation of the world by car. A woman at the wheel: Clärenore Stinnes, daughter of an industrialist from Mülheim an der Ruhr , in: Mülheimer Jahrbuch 2003, pp. 161–170.

Other sources

  • Archive of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, estate of the Stinnes family (therein: unpublished memoirs of Clärenore Stinnes-Söderström)
  • City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr, inventory 1194 (birth certificate) and inventory 1550 (biographical collection)
  • Exhibition accompanying the documentary film with many contemporary exhibits and multimedia (2009, resumption 2015 in the museum in the hospital in Grünberg in the district of Gießen )
  • Fräulein Stinnes accelerates - with 45 HP from Mülheim around the world - slightly shortened and dramaturgically revised version of the above-mentioned film documentation from 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Clairenore Stinnes is coming to Vienna today on her car world tour. In:  Der Tag / Der Wiener Tag , May 27, 1927, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / maintenance / day
  2. ↑ Clairenore Stinnes has finished her world tour. In:  Neues Wiener Journal , July 9, 1929, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nwj
  3. ↑ Hugo Stinnes' daughter's car world tour. In:  Neue Freie Presse , May 27, 1927, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp
  4. ↑ Around the world 80 years ago. Die Welt vom March 3, 2007 Retrieved May 22, 2015
  5. ↑ Clairenore Stinnes' world trip in the car. In:  Die Stunden , May 28, 1927, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / std
  6. ↑ Completion of a world tour. In:  Innsbrucker Nachrichten , June 25, 1929, p. 7 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ibn
  7. ↑ http://fraeulein-stinnes-ausstellung.de/austellung.html ( Memento from August 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Andreas Böhme: "Fräulein Stinnes accelerates": WDR shows a documentary about strong women. In: Berliner Morgenpost. January 22, 2016, accessed January 20, 2021 .
personal data
SURNAME Stinnes, Clarenore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Söderström, Clärenore (married name); Stinnes, Clara Eleonore (maiden name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION German world traveler and racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1990
Place of death Sweden