Lanz-Leo

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Leo Speer filming Lanz Leo - A Bulldog Road Movie in Venice (2006)

Lanz-Leo , actually Leonhard "Leo" Speer (born January 30, 1941 in Munich ; † March 28, 2016 ), was a German tractor and agricultural machine collector , agricultural machine technician, founder and operator of the Lanz Museum Mitterrohrbach , organizer and film actor from Rimbach . His nickname was given to him in the 1970s by fans and collectors due to his preference for agricultural machinery from Heinrich Lanz AG .

Life

Leo Speer grew up as a war child with a foster family with 16 children. Even as a child he was enthusiastic about steam locomotives and tractors.

At the age of 16 he bought a used steam tractor and shortly thereafter a 25cc Lanz Bulldog from 1949. In addition to his work in agriculture, he transported various materials with his 55cc Lanz Bulldog and began trading, repairing and Restoration of old tractors and threshing cars . He collected good specimens. In the 1970s, his collection, which was then located in Nöham, already included three steam tractors and 25 other tractors, most of them of the Lanz Bulldog type. Today, in addition to other exhibits, his first tractor is in the collection of his agricultural machinery museum. From 1959 to 1965 he restored agricultural machinery in the Mannheim museum park of the Lanz company and, in 1960, organized one of the first agricultural machinery exhibitions and meetings.

Since a serious traffic accident in 1966 and the associated use of hip joint prostheses, Speer suffered from a walking disability that could not dissuade him from his passion. He got to know Edeltraud "Traudl" Pickl, née Heller (* 1950), who was widowed at a young age, and whom he married in 1989. Together with her, he decided in 1980 to acquire a sufficiently large property in Mitterrohrbach for his collection, which has now grown considerably. In 1990 he opened the present museum there, which was later expanded. Speer regularly organized a courtyard festival with buses from all over Germany. Around 4,000 visitors came to the 20th edition in 2010.

Speer was seen in supporting roles in some cinema productions with their own tractors. In 2006, Christoph Schuster and Maike Bandmann shot an almost three-hour documentary for Bayerischer Fernsehen (BR) about Speer's trip to Italy with his partner Traudl, who has since been divorced from him, on a 45 Lanz Bulldog built in 1937 from Count Stauffenberg's estate with a caravan to an agricultural machinery old-timer festival in the San Biagio district of Argenta , the only trip of the two to date besides a honeymoon to Mannheim to the former Bulldog factory of the Lanz company. The documentary produced for Bayerischer Rundfunk by KNM Home Entertainment in predominantly Lower Bavarian dialect without High German subtitles was released in 2010 as a three-part DVD with 17 episodes and bonus track and was first broadcast as a three-part TV series on Bavarian TV in early 2011.

Lanz-Leo died on Easter Monday 2016 and was buried on March 31st. During the burial chugged along the cemetery wall; three old Lanz tractors directly behind his grave. Tractor collectors from all over Bavaria paid his last respects.

Filmography

literature

  • Country & People: Visiting Lanz-Leo . In: Oldtimer Markt , edition 2/2013, January 10, 2013.

Trivia

A model replica of the Bulldog team with which Leo Speer and Traudl took their trip to Italy was shown at the model building exhibition at the 2015 Spring Festival of the Haas Fertigbau company.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Time travel into the world of steam engines , Passauer Neue Presse , June 11, 2010.
  2. ↑ Obituary notice
  3. ↑ On a trek tour with the Lanz-Leo , InFranken.de, September 5, 2011.
  4. ↑ a b c Lanz Leo - passion Lanz , Traktor-TV.de, May 26, 2009.
  5. ↑ Who is actually Lanz Leo , OberpfalzNetz.de, May 17, 2008.
  6. ↑ Traudl's heart beats for pachyderms , Rottaler Anzeiger, July 23, 2014.
  7. ↑ See film contribution Rendezvous on the green carpet - Die Traudl vom Lanz Leo .
  8. ↑ Lanz Leo celebrates - courtyard festival in Mitterrohrbach , Traktor-TV.de, September 20, 2010.
  9. ^ Bavarian television: Lanz Leo , ARD program, March 6, 2011.
  10. ↑ Lanz Leo - A Bulldog Road Movie in Lower Bavarian , TV-Kult.com, December 20, 2010.
  11. ^ Claudia Eckhoff: Leo, Traudl and der Lanz , Wochenkurier, Hagen , October 15, 2011.
  12. ^ BR-TV presenter Christine Schneider in the moderation of an obituary; Part of the program "Our Country"; broadcast on Bavarian television on April 8, 2016 at 7:00 p.m .; Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  13. ↑ Gigantic miniature worlds: the largest model world in southern Germany at the Haas Spring Festival , Haas Prefabricated Building, March 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Lanz-Leo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Speer, Leonhard (real name); Speer, Leo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German tractor and agricultural machine collector, agricultural machine technician and museum operator
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 2016