Liliane Roehrs

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Liliane Roehr (* 17th March 1900 ; † 7. September 1975 in Hannover ) was one of the first and most successful automobile - racing drivers in Germany and co-founder and president of the German ladies automobile clubs .

Life

Liliane Roehrs married Bobby Roehrs , the Hanover representative for the motor vehicle manufacturers Hanomag and Adlerwerke . Carl G. Roehrs, who belonged to the same family, founded the automobile dealership of the same name in 1925.

Liliane Roehrs was one of the "seven sporty, active and progressive women" who founded the German Ladies Automobile Club (DDAC) in 1926.

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Liliane Roehrs loved driving cars, not only with the Hanomag commissary bread , with which she was photographed in a self-confident pose and “in pants”. Fast cars were her passion: in 1928, the ambitious and daring driver suffered a serious accident at the Hainberg race in Göttingen : in an open car without a roof and without a crash helmet, she braked too hard and overturned her car. But after her recovery, in the same year as a racing driver at the International Alpine Tour in 1928 , she was superior to the male competition.

The racing driver captured another photograph with a male co-driver in a BMW at the finish of the 1934 International Alpine Tour. In 1936 she was elected President of the German Ladies Automobile Club for the first time.

After the Second World War and still under the British military government , there was an entry in the DDAC's club guest book on January 17, 1946 under the heading “I. Meeting after the war ”, from the same year Liliane Roehrs took over the presidency of the DDAC, which lasted more than a quarter of a century. The institution, organized as a registered association , was not officially re-established until March 24, 1949; and at the first official general meeting after the war, which took place in Hanover, Roehrs was confirmed as president. Martha Beindorff became her deputy, Milly Wöltje was appointed treasurer .

In 1950, at the age of 50, Roehrs won the gold medal at the Germany trip - documents about her then co-driver could not be found in recent times . But it wasn't until 1953 that Roehrs organized the 1st German Ladies' Rally , and by 1970 a total of nineteen of these races reserved for women, from which the German Touristic Orientation Rides later developed. In 1973 Roehrs passed on her presidency to Maria Fauvet for health reasons .

Liliane Roehrs stands in a row with outstanding motorists such as Bertha Benz , Camille du Gast , Elisabeth Junek , Hanni Köhler , Dorothy Levitt , Erika Mann , Ernes Merck , Sophie Opel , Irmgard von Opel , Ewy Rosqvist , Ilse Thouret , Kirsi Kainulainen , Jutta Kleinschmidt , Ellen Lohr , Michèle Mouton , Susie Wolff , Maria Teresa de Filippis and Isolde Holderied . They all attracted attention in connection with the exhibition Women give gas! which could be seen as part of automobile history in the Central Garage car museum in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ; according to DDAC honorary president Sylvia Thießen-Lüders until mid-October 2017.

literature

  • Angela Dinghaus, Sabine Guckel-Seitz: The lady at the wheel , in Christiane Schröder, Monika Sonneck (ed.): Out of the house. Women's history in Hanover , ed. on behalf of “750 Years of Women and Hanover eV”, Hanover: Reichold Verlag Hanover, ISBN 978-3-930459-04-9 and ISBN 3-930459-04-3 , pp. 117–124

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Ursula Stiehler: Women step on the gas! 13 biographies from 100 years with a different perspective on automobile history in the Automuseum Central Garage, Bad Homburg vd Höhe , in Ulf von Malberg ( editor ): Das Schnauferl. Official magazine of the Allgemeine Schnauferl-Club eV (ASC) founded in 1900 , issue 2/2017, p. 16f .; also as a PDF document on the asc-suedbayern.de website
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Evelyn Kreutz: [ Liliane Roehrs loved fast cars / DDAC honorary president introduces racing legend ... ], article on the Taunus newspaper page of June 17, 2017, last accessed on December 11, 2017
  3. ^ A b Carl G. Roehrs / Autohaus / Krausenstrasse 12 - 15 , in: The book of the old companies of the city of Hanover 1954 , with the assistance of Heinz Lauenroth , Ewald Brix and Herbert Mundhenke , publisher: Adolf Sponholtz Verlag, in the text and illustrative design Limited partnership, Hanover (Seelhorststrasse 46), September 1954, p. 225
  4. ↑ oV : The German ladies Automobile Association / Who is the DDAC? on the page ddac.de [ undated ], last accessed on December 11, 2017
  5. ↑ a b c d e o. V .: History / 1946 to 1970 on the DDAC website [no date], last accessed on December 11, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Roehrs, Liliane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing car driver
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1900
DATE OF DEATH 7th September 1975
Place of death Hanover