Hans Weidenbrück

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Hans Weidenbrück was a merchant from Bonn and tenant of the Nürburg community hunt . He is considered the "father of the Nürburgring ".

Weidenbrück discussed the dangers of motorsport and motorsport events with Hans Pauly, mayor of Nürburg, and Xaver Weber, member of the district council and district committee of Adenau , on the fringes of the 2nd Eifel race , which took place from July 17th to 19th, 1924 near Nideggen take place on public highways. Weidenbrück vehemently remembers the plans for a race track from 1907, which have since been buried due to financial problems and a lack of interest in motorsport. Weidenbrück spoke to the General German Automobile Club and then founded his own traffic club with the aim of building such a racetrack.

On June 18, 1927, this racetrack near Adenau was opened under the name Nürburgring .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg-Thomas Födisch: Nürburgring - The chronicle of the legendary race track . Verlagsunion Erich Pabel - Arthur Moewig KG, Rastatt 1991, ISBN 3-8118-3065-1 .
  2. ↑ Nürburgring: economic power source of the region ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2005 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kreis.aw-online.de
personal data
SURNAME Weidenbrück, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German merchant and leaseholder of the Nürburg community hunt, "father of the Nürburgring"
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century
DATE OF DEATH 20th century