Eckhart Bartels

Eckhart Bartels in March 2018

Eckhart Bartels (* 1947 in Großenheidorn ) is a German journalist and nonfiction - author for automobiles , in particular vintage cars and vehicles of the brand Opel .

Life

Born at Steinhuder Meer, Eckhart Bartels completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk after finishing school in the late 1960s . He later worked as a marketing communications specialist.

In 1972 he co-founded the Alt-Opel Interest Group (AOIG), one of the first brand clubs in the German classic car scene. Under his leadership, the AOIG grew to around 1700 members in Germany and abroad within 25 years. During this time Bartels edited the award-winning Alt-Opel-Magazin und -Markt magazine, which he published .

As board member of DEUVET (from left): Eckhart Bartels, Götz Knoop, Peter Schneider;
2013 as a Techno-Classica exhibitor, Messe Essen

Since 1983 Eckhart Bartels has published a series of books on the subject of Opel on the basis of his own “technology archive”. The Almanach Jahrbuch Opel , for which he is responsible, has been published since 1999 .

Bartels was a co-author of the 2005 Encyclopedia of Classic Automobiles published by David Lillywhite and Halwart Schrader .

Fonts (selection)

• Opel in the war. Passenger cars - trucks, special constructions (= Das Waffen-Arsenal , vol. 82), Friedberg: Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, 1983, ISBN 978-3-7909-0209-9 and ISBN 3-7909-0209-8
• Eckhart Bartels (ed.), Diethelm Jakoby: Opel Olympia. 1935-1953. Documentation (= Schrader-Motor-Chronik , Vol. 12), Munich: Schrader, Automobil-Bücher-Handelsgesellschaft, 1986, ISBN 978-3-922617-24-2 and ISBN 3-922617-24-7
• Opel passenger car. A Chronicle , Brilon: Podszun-Motorbücher, 1987, ISBN 978-3-923448-33-3
• The Opel Kapitän book. 40 years of Opel large cars. From the “Super 6” to the “Diplomat V8”. 1937 to 1977 , Brilon: Podszun-Motorbücher, 1987, ISBN 978-3-923448-39-5 and ISBN 3-923448-39-2
  • extended new edition under the title Das Opel-Kapitän-Buch. The history of the Opel 6 and 8 cylinder large cars from 1916 to today , [circa 1999], ISBN 978-3-86133-193-3 and 3-86133-193-4
• since 1999: Yearbook Opel ... Brilon: Verlag Podszun-Motorbücher
• Eckhart Bartels, Rainer Manthey: Opel Typenkunde , 2 volumes, Bielefeld: Delius Klasing;
  • Vol. 1: Small and medium-sized cars from 1962 , 2005, ISBN 978-3-7688-1637-3 and ISBN 3-7688-1637-0
  • Vol. 2: Middle and upper class cars from 1947 , 2006, ISBN 978-3-7688-1726-4 and ISBN 3-7688-1726-1 ; Content text
• Eckhart Bartels, Rainer Manthey: Das Opel-Manta-Buch , Brilon: Podszun-Motorbücher, [circa 1990], ISBN 978-3-923448-57-9 and ISBN 3-923448-57-0
• Opel military vehicles. 1906–1956 , Wölfersheim-Berstadt: Podzun-Pallas, 1994, ISBN 978-3-7909-0515-1
• Opel vehicle chronicle. 1887-2000 , Brilon: Podszun, [2000], ISBN 978-3-86133-146-9 ISBN 3-86133-146-2
• Peter Kurz , Eckhart Bartels: Opel Record. The victory of the beautiful line , Bielefeld: Delius Klasing, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7688-2653-2

literature

• N / A : Eckhart Bartels, Head of Press and Public Relations, Siemens AG , in: Scherrer Magazin , Issue 4, Hanover: [undated], p. 6f.

Web links

Commons : Eckhart Bartels  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} o.V. : Eckhart Bartels on the website of the forum for vehicle history F-kubik.de [ undated ], last accessed on March 28, 2018
2. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library