Gunther Holtorf

Gunther Holtorf (2015)

Gunther Holtorf (born July 4, 1937 in Göttingen ) is a former German world traveler from Gollenshausen am Chiemsee .

Life

Between December 19, 1988 and October 18, 2014 - together with his wife Christine until 2010 - the former Lufthansa aviation agent and managing director of Hapag-Lloyd Flug traveled to all of them with "Otto", a converted blue Mercedes-Benz 300 GD built in 1988 Continents. He covered almost 900,000 km and traveled to 215 countries - from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe , from Tierra del Fuego to Mount Everest in Tibet , from Eritrea to Vanuatu and thus achieved an entry in the Guinness Book of Records. The vehicle has been in the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim since October 21, 2014 .

Fonts

• Hong Kong - a world of contrasts. Praesentverlag Heinz Peter, 1970, ISBN 0-7091-3153-4 .
• Jakarta-Jabotabek Street Atlas and Names Index. Falk-Verlag, Hamburg, 13th edition 2005, ISBN 9789628734757 .

Web links

• OTTOS REISE on ottosreise.de
• In the G-Class to the end of the world. Mercedes Benz AG, accessed February 15, 2016 . 
• Christoph Gunkel: 26 years around the world - traveling until death do you part . One day (Spiegel Online), April 12, 2016
• Video: Gunther Holtorf: Extraordinary paths: My journey, my bikes . Re: publica 2015, made available by the Technical Information Library (TIB), doi : 10.5446 / 31890 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ That! with Gunther Holtorf ( Memento from January 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on ndr.de on November 26, 2014.
2. ↑ Gunther Holtorf: With “Otto” across the globe. Almost at the end of a 25-year journey, the globetrotter comes to Jever on friesenblog.com
3. ↑ How Gunther Holtorf traveled all over the world with his "Otto" in 26 years. In: stern.de. Retrieved February 15, 2016 .