Fritz Huschke from Hanstein

Fritz Huschke von Hanstein (second from left) with Jean Behra , Richard von Frankenberg and Edgar Barth

Hanstein autograph card from 1981

1981: Hanstein with the Porsche 804 on a demonstration lap on the Nürburgring

Fritz Sittig Enno Werner von Hanstein (born January 3, 1911 in Halle an der Saale , † March 5, 1996 in Stuttgart ) was a German motor sportsman and vice-president of the automobile sports commission. Hanstein began his career in the 1930s, winning the German sports car hill climb championship in 1938 and the replacement race for the Mille Miglia in 1940 . Since 1933 Hanstein was a member of the SS during the Second World War, initially adjutant to Werner Lorenz , the head of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle of the SS. For unknown reasons, he fell out of favor in 1944 and was to be used as a tank driver in the Waffen SS . In 1951 Hanstein came to Porsche , where he played a key role in shaping the image of the sports car manufacturer from 1952 to 1968 as race director, racing driver and head of public relations. According to a certificate from the Stuttgart Police Headquarters of October 24, 1956, Hanstein officially carried the first name (first name) Fritz-Huschke .

family

Hanstein came from the old eichsfeld noble family of Hanstein and was chairman of the family association for several years. He was the son of the royal Prussian lieutenant colonel and landowner Carlo von Hanstein (1875-1936), lord of Gut Wahlhausen-Unterhof, and Anna von Dippe (1890-1976).

Hanstein married on June 4, 1950 on the Nürburgring ( Eifel ) Ursula von Kaufmann (born February 10, 1916 in Schladen , † October 3, 2005 in Stuttgart), the daughter of the royal Prussian chief bailiff and domain tenant Fritz-Georg von Kaufmann and his wife Else von Engelhart .

Life

After an agricultural and a commercial apprenticeship, Hanstein studied law and passed the interpreting exam. He worked as a management assistant for Gebrüder Dippe AG, a seed breeding company , and in 1939 became managing director of Mahndorfer Originalzuchte, a subsidiary of Dippe AG. At the end of 1939 he took over the Wulfenhof estate near Hohensalza in Warthegau , which had belonged to a Polish seed breeder, as a "trustee" .

Hanstein had become a member of the NSKK in 1932 , joined the SS in 1933 (No. 232.177) and later also the NSDAP (No. 5.718.979). The SS supported Hanstein by providing him with a BMW 328 , a transport vehicle and a fitter. SS runes were painted on the doors of the car .

Hanstein began his career in motorsport as a motorcyclist and contested off-road and long-distance rides. He became a works driver for Hanomag , Adler and BMW . In the BMW 328 Roadster, he won the 1938 German sports car mountain champion at the German Mountain Prize . His greatest success was winning the Mille Miglia in 1940 .

During the Second World War Hanstein was first adjutant of SS-Obergruppenführer Werner Lorenz , head of the People's Mittelstelle in occupied Poland . In 1942 Hanstein was delegated to the SS group leader Georg-Henning Graf von Bassewitz-Behr , who was friends with Lorenz and who , as SS and police leader , had taken over the Dnepropetrowsk General Commissariat at the end of 1941 . Promoted to SS-Hauptsturmführer on August 1, 1942 , Hanstein fell out of favor with Himmler in 1944 for reasons unknown . Tales that he was arrested by the Gestapo are not confirmed in the personnel files. According to Himmler's will, Hanstein should complete training as a tank driver and in March 1944 was transferred to the 11th SS Volunteer Panzer Grenadier Division "Nordland" with the rank of SS-Unterscharfuhrer of the Waffen-SS . Lorenz tried to save Hanstein from being deployed to the front.

After the war, Hanstein initially traded seeds again. In 1950 he first went to Volkswagen in the press department. In 1951 he switched to Porsche, where he was head of public relations and race director from 1952 to 1968. Hanstein, who also committed himself as a driver, built up a successful racing team and at the same time shaped the image of Porsche.

After his active time at Porsche, Hanstein acted as sports president of the Automobile Club of Germany (AvD), sports president of the International Sports Association and vice-president of the International Automobile Sports Association .

On July 30, 1970, the Federal President awarded him the Silver Laurel Leaf for his successes . Hanstein is buried not far from the ancestral castle.

statistics

successes

1938: German sports car mountain champion
1940: Joint victory with Walter Bäumer in the replacement race of the Mille Miglia in a BMW 328 Touring Coupé
1956: Victory at the Targa Florio with a Porsche 550 Spyder against Maserati and Ferrari (as second driver or race director)
1960: European mountain champion in the GT category in a Porsche

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1937	France Mme Anne-Cécile Rose-Itier	Adler Trumpf racing sedan	France Anne-Cécile Rose-Itier	failure	Engine failure
1952	Germany Porsche KG	Porsche 356/4	Germany Petermax Müller	failure	Gearbox damage

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement
1955	Germany Porsche Co. & BS Cunningham	Porsche 550 Spyder	Germany Herbert Linge		Rank 8
1956	Germany Porsche KG	Porsche 550	United States 48 Mike Marshall	United States 48 Jan Brundage	Rank 14
1957	Germany Porsche Company	Porsche 550 RS	Germany Herbert Linge		Rank 31st
1958	Germany Porsche KG	Porsche 356A Carrera	Germany Herbert Linge	United States 48 John Cuevas	Rank 10 and class win
1959	Germany Porsche Auto Company	Porsche 356A Carrera GT	Netherlands Carel Godin de Beaufort		11th place and class win

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1955	Porsche Co. & BS Cunningham	Porsche 550	Argentina BUA	United States SEB	Italy MIM	France LEM	United Kingdom RTT	Italy TAR
1955	Porsche Co. & BS Cunningham	Porsche 550		8th
1956	Porsche	Porsche 550	Argentina BUA	United States SEB	Italy MIM	Germany ONLY	Sweden KRI
1956	Porsche	Porsche 550		14th
1957	Porsche	Porsche 550 Porsche 718 RSK	Argentina BUA	United States SEB	Italy MIM	Germany ONLY	France LEM	Sweden KRI	Venezuela CAR
1957	Porsche	Porsche 550 Porsche 718 RSK		31					5
1958	Porsche	Porsche 356	Argentina BUA	United States SEB	Italy TAR	Germany ONLY	France LEM	United Kingdom RTT
1958	Porsche	Porsche 356		10	6th
1959	Porsche	Porsche 356	United States SEB	Italy TAR	Germany ONLY	France LEM	United Kingdom RTT
1959	Porsche	Porsche 356	11	3
1960	Porsche	Porsche 356	Argentina BUA	United States SEB	Italy TAR	Germany ONLY	France LEM
1960	Porsche	Porsche 356	10		DNF
1961	Porsche	Porsche 356	United States SEB	Italy TAR	Germany ONLY	France LEM	Italy PES
1961	Porsche	Porsche 356		7th

Works

Automobile sport. Training, technique, tactics (= rororo 7015 rororo non-fiction ). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1978, ISBN 3-499-17015-9 .

literature

Tobias Aichele, Eberhard Kittler, Ursula von Hanstein: Huschke von Hanstein. The racing baron. Könemann, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-8290-2900-4 .
Genealogical handbook of noble houses. Volume 15: Noble houses A (= Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility . Vol. 71, ISSN 0435-2408 ). Starke, Limburg an der Lahn 1979, p. 226.

Web links

Commons : Fritz Huschke von Hanstein - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Fritz Huschke von Hanstein in the catalog of the German National Library
Hans-Dieter von Hanstein (ed.): Hanstein Castle. On the 700-year history of a border fortress in Eichsfeld. Mecke, Duderstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-936617-48-1 , p. 49 f.
Fritz Huschke von Hanstein at motorsportmemorial.org (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Hanstein, Fritz Huschke from . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 4 : Görres – Hittorp . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2006, ISBN 3-11-094654-8 , p. 422 ( books.google.de - limited preview).
^ ^A ^b Jens Westemeier : Himmler's warriors. Joachim Peiper and the Waffen-SS in the war and the post-war period . Partly zugl .: Potsdam, Univ., Diss., 2009. Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77241-1 , p. 537.
^ Jens Westemeier : Himmler's warriors. Joachim Peiper and the Waffen-SS in the war and the post-war period . Partly zugl .: Potsdam, Univ., Diss., 2009. Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77241-1 , pp. 537, 779.
^ Image of the BMW 328 racing car owned by SS member Huschke von Hanstein .
^ Jens Westemeier : Himmler's warriors. Joachim Peiper and the Waffen-SS in the war and the post-war period . Partly zugl .: Potsdam, Univ., Diss., 2009. Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77241-1 , pp. 537 f., 780.
^ German Bundestag: Printed matter 7/1040 (PDF) of September 29, 1973, Annex 3, p. 54, accessed on October 6, 2016.

personal data
SURNAME	Hanstein, Fritz Huschke from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hanstein, Fritz Sittig Enno Werner von (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German motor sportsman
DATE OF BIRTH	January 3, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH	March 5, 1996
Place of death	Stuttgart

[DBE1-1] Hanstein, Fritz Huschke from . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 4 : Görres – Hittorp . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2006, ISBN 3-11-094654-8 , p. 422 ( books.google.de - limited preview).

[W537-2] A ^b Jens Westemeier : Himmler's warriors. Joachim Peiper and the Waffen-SS in the war and the post-war period . Partly zugl .: Potsdam, Univ., Diss., 2009. Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77241-1 , p. 537.

[3] Jens Westemeier : Himmler's warriors. Joachim Peiper and the Waffen-SS in the war and the post-war period . Partly zugl .: Potsdam, Univ., Diss., 2009. Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77241-1 , pp. 537, 779.

[4] Image of the BMW 328 racing car owned by SS member Huschke von Hanstein .

[5] Jens Westemeier : Himmler's warriors. Joachim Peiper and the Waffen-SS in the war and the post-war period . Partly zugl .: Potsdam, Univ., Diss., 2009. Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-77241-1 , pp. 537 f., 780.

[6] German Bundestag: Printed matter 7/1040 (PDF) of September 29, 1973, Annex 3, p. 54, accessed on October 6, 2016.