Federico B. Kirbus

Federico B. Kirbus (born October 14, 1931 in Buenos Aires ; † December 12, 2015 there ) was an Argentine journalist , writer and researcher.

Life

Federico spent his childhood and youth, then still called Burghardt , in eastern Germany. His parents lived in Argentina between 1924 and 1928 and between 1929 and 1933. His father Oskar and his uncle Fridolin ran a metal goods factory in Germany, in which they produced iron beds, bicycles and prams. He witnessed the Second World War in the Saxony area and partly in Bavaria , where he lived with his family in the country and, apart from the regular radio reports , experienced little of the direct horrors of the war except for the bombing raid on Dresden . Hunger was an exception. He was used to getting food only in exchange for rationing stamps , and experienced “paradise” when, shortly after his arrival in Buenos Aires in 1948, he and his father were given bread and butter for cash in a bakery.

Services

As a sports reporter, Kirbus accompanied the then automobile world champion Juan Manuel Fangio and the Mercedes-Benz racing team from 1955 to 1958 . During this time he wrote a biography of Fangio with Ronald Hansen. He has also published in various magazines and newspapers such as Velocidad , Motor , La Nación , Automobil Revue (Switzerland) and Car and Driver (USA). He then devoted himself to adventure tourism and has written more than 20 books on travel, archeology and adventure in South America, including “Mágica Ruta 40” on Argentina's 5000 km long north-south artery from Bolivia to Río Gallegos . Among other things, he discovered in 1978 the place where the city of Buenos Aires was founded in Belén de Escobar for the first time in 1536 . In this context he wrote the book Utz Schmidl about the Bavarian Landsknecht Ulrich Schmidl, who was born in Straubing and was present when the city was founded. In 2003, he revealed that the story of the mummies of three local children allegedly found on the Llullaillaco volcano in the Andes is a gross fake.

literature

• The Life Story of Juan Manuel Fangio. Edita SA, Lausanne 1956; Retrieved September 16, 2009
• La primera de las tres Buenos Aires. Kirbus-Verlag, Buenos Aires 1980; Retrieved September 16, 2009
• Preparacion de Motores para Auto de Competicion. 1986; Retrieved September 16, 2009
• Various tourism books about Argentina , Kirbus-Verlag, Buenos Aires; Retrieved September 16, 2009

Web links

• Homepage of Federico Kirbus with autobiography (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Pesar por el fallecimiento de Federico Kirbus. In: hostnews.com.ar. December 12, 2015, accessed December 12, 2015 (Spanish).
2. ↑ Kirbus und Autos ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Mágica Ruta 40 ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Llullaillaco ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.