Margot von Gans
Margot von Gans (born July 11, 1899 in Boulogne-sur-Mer , † 1986 in Denmark ) was a German entrepreneur, aviation pioneer and racing car driver .
Life
Margot von Gans was the first daughter of the chemist and entrepreneur Dr. Paul von Gans (1866–1915) and the Ellinka Freiin von Fabrice (1875–1935). She had a brother Jozsi (1897–1963) and a sister Marie (1905–1988). She grew up in the Schmölz mansion in Untergrainau ( Upper Bavaria ). When she was not yet 18, she was married to Werner Freiherr von Bischoffshausen (1894–1970) in Bern on June 3, 1917 , and divorced from him just under four years later on February 7, 1921. From this marriage came son Claus-Henning Freiherr von Bischoffshausen (born June 5, 1919 Herrenhaus Schmölz; † April 23, 1942 in Brjansk / Russia, 380 km southwest of Moscow ).
Margot moved to Rome and was in close contact with Cerubini, the Pope's personal physician . At his suggestion, Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli paid a visit to the Malgersdorf community in Lower Bavaria in 1921 and brought the papal blessing to the small village. In his honor, her mother and her second husband, Haupt Graf zu Pappenheim, gave a reception in the castle there. During her stay in Rome she met Count Adolkar von Einsiedel (1889–1963), whom she married on October 1, 1921 in Untergrainau. From this marriage a daughter, Ellinka (* 1922) emerged. This second marriage was divorced on February 4, 1925 in Munich . Daughter Ellinka Countess von Einsiedel was married three times. 1st marriage to Ernst Bierlein, 2nd marriage to Walter Rupprecht and 3rd marriage to Peter Ordway in Santo Domingo.
Margot shared both areas of interest with her father - aviation and motor racing . She made spectacular flights with Ernst Udet in the 1920s. Success as automobile racing driver they were reached for 1926 on Steyr VI sport with the victory in the category of sports cars to 5 liters of displacement in the race around the Solitude in Stuttgart and 1927 when she the Feldberg races on the Great Feldberg in the Taunus in the same class in a 4500 cc Steyr from the Heusser / von Einsiedel racing team . Her brother Jozsi von Gans is also on the list of winners in the field hill climb. He won the 6-tax-horsepower touring car class in a Chiribiri in 1924 .
In 1928 she drove the Targa Florio on her Bugatti with the number 22 and finished twelfth. Then she drove two more Italian races and one on the Nürburgring .
In 1929, Margot married a third time in Great Britain. She moved to South Africa with her husband, Lord Carno , where Carno owned an optical factory. Margot traveled through Africa by car, accompanied by locals, to sell glasses from her factory. After Carno's death, Margot met the Irish goldmine owner McCugh in 1930 and married him. The couple lived on Rukwasee in Kenya until McCugh's death . During the Second World War , Margot, who had a German license, trained British soldiers to become pilots and taught them parachuting . She became widowed again during this period.
In Nairobi Margot met then in 1944 the RAF - Colonel Harold Edwin Rydon (1890-1970), she on 16 April 1947 in Arusha ( Tanzania married), where he held a coffee plantation and ruby mines owned. Together they built the Hotel Safari-House in Arusha , which still exists today. After Rydon's death, Margot stayed in Africa until 1980, but later moved to Denmark, where she died in 1986.
literature
- Angela von Gans and Monika Groening: The Gans family 1350-1963, origin and fate of a rediscovered scholarly and economic dynasty, regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt Weiher, Heidelberg, Basel, ISBN 978-3-89735-486-9
- H. Fischer: Elephants, Lions and Pygmies , Munich 1956, p. 32.
Web links
- Margot's ancestors at Rootsweb
- Margot von Gans on thepeerage.com , accessed August 20, 2015.
- Margot's family and ancestors at angelfire (see no. 4.13.1.1.6.2.2.14.1.1.2.)
- Hansjörg Meister: lists of winners from the Feldberg race
- Michael Struck-Schloen: 07/11/1899 - birthday of Margot von Gans WDR ZeitZeichen (podcast).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Some sources give 1984 as the year of death.
- ↑ This had previously been divorced from a previous marriage on July 13, 1921 in Hamburg .
- ↑ Her granddaughter Tatiana married on August 25, 2010 Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark.
- ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Count XVI, page 135, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2000
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Goose, Margot von |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German entrepreneur, aviation pioneer and racing car driver |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 11, 1899 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Boulogne-sur-Mer |
DATE OF DEATH | 1986 |
Place of death | Denmark |