Helmut Assmann
Helmut Aßmann (born November 5, 1927 in Lower Silesia ; † August 5, 2010 in Gotha ) was a racing driver in the GDR and one of the best-known designers from the GDR motorsport scene. The ADMV made him an honorary member in 2002. Assmann was married and had four children.
Life
After the Second World War , Assmann came to Gotha ( Thuringia ). He completed a degree in engine engineering and then worked as a test engineer at the Barkas works . Later he was a vocational school teacher for mathematics and physics.
His sporting career began in 1950 as a co-driver in training. From 1952 he started himself in sidecar races , from 1954 with a self-built team based on a Zündapp DS 350. Over the years he drove in the classes up to 125 cm³, up to 250 cm³, up to 350 cm³ and up to 500 cm³. During these years he was part of the GDR national team and took part in world championship races. By the end of 1967 he had won 41 winners' wreaths in 176 races.
From 1968 he started in touring car racing , first for two years with a standard Trabant 601 in hillclimb races, then with a “racing car” in road races. By the end of his active career, he had competed in 198 chariot races and achieved 111 victories. Aßmann was GDR champion seven times in different classes on two and four wheels.
Helmut Aßmann also worked later as an engine builder in Trabant racing, not only in road racing, but also in rallying in the 1990s . Furthermore, he was active as a functionary of the ADMV, which he took part in the founding of 1957 in Berlin, among other things since 1967 as chairman of the motorsport club Gotha, as state president of the ADMV Thuringia and from 1993 to 2007 as organizer of the TLRC (Trabant-Lada-Racing- Cup).
In 1990, Helmut Aßmann headed the first GDR championship races of the Formula Easter and Trabis in the Federal Republic of Germany as race director at the Oldtimer Festival on the Nürburgring .
literature
- Hendrik Medrow: From Rennpappe, Easter & Co . HB-Werbung und Verlag, ISBN 3-00-013080-2
- ADMV mobil: Edition 6/2007 and 1/2008
- Series "Names that made headlines" in: Illustrierter Motorsport (Berlin), issue 10/1979, p. 227
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ ADMV honorary member has passed away. ADMV website, accessed August 17, 2010.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Assmann, Helmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German racing driver and designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lower Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 5, 2010 |
| Place of death | Gotha |