Rainer Günzler

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Rainer Günzler at the Nürburgring in 1966
Porsche 904 GTS as a ZDF camera car, driven by Rainer Günzler and Paul Frère

Rainer Günzler (* 5. September 1927 in Stuttgart , † 1. December 1977 in Berlin ) was a German presenter in radio and television and racers . He achieved fame primarily through his moderation of the current sports studio at ZDF in the 1960s.

Career and life

In the 1950s and 1960s he was active in motorsport , occasionally together with Karl Kling , Hans Herrmann or Paul Frère . From 1959 to 1961 Günzler worked as a works driver for Mercedes and won two large rallies in Africa, including the 1959 Algiers – Cape Town rally together with Kling.

Alternating with Paul Frère, Günzler drove a Porsche 904 with 70 kg heavy equipment in the passenger seat as the ZDF camera car in the 1000 km race on the Nürburgring in 1966 . It was one of the first attempts to send live images from a racing car during a race. The car started from position 26 in the field of more than 70 participants (fastest training lap 9: 36.2 minutes, driven by Frère) and gave up after 18 laps.

From 1963 Günzler was one of the first presenters of the current sports studio, alongside Wim Thoelke and Harry Valérien . His interview with professional boxer Norbert Grupe is legendary, and he didn't answer any questions. In addition, Günzler made a name for himself as a motor journalist. The live report of the accident by Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips in Monza in 1961 was spoken by him together with Günter Jendrich . He was known to many television viewers as the driver and speaker of the car test in the ZDF program Der Sport-Spiegel . He usually announced the final comment while driving from the open side window.

Günzler was one of the closest friends of the industrialist Harald Quandt . During Harald Quandt's lifetime he was the lover of his wife Inge Quandt (née Bandekow) and after Quandt's death in 1967 he was a partner and advisor to the widow. Günzler died of complications from cancer.

1985 it was announced that Günzler while working as a car tester for the ZDF together with the later-screen editor in chief and government spokesman of Chancellor Helmut Kohl , Peter Boenisch until his death more Mark D from automobile manufacturers, from 1972 over a million Daimler-Benz received and hadn't paid taxes.

After the investigation files of the murder of the Frankfurt prostitute Rosemarie Nitribitt , known to be a Mercedes driver, that had long been lost , it was reported that Günzler and Gunter Sachs had Nitribitt on the evening of November 17, 1956 at the birthday party of Quandt's wife together with Gunter Sachs because of lack of women in Frankfurt committed and brought to Quandt's house.

statistics

Victories in rallying

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season team race car 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13
1955 Porsche 356 ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM FranceFrance LEM United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT ItalyItaly TAR
22nd
1956 Rainer Günzler Mercedes-Benz 220 A ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM GermanyGermany ONLY SwedenSweden KRI
DNF 17th
1966 ZDF Porsche 904 United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MON ItalyItaly TAR BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM ItalyItaly MUG ItalyItaly CCE GermanyGermany HOK SwitzerlandSwitzerland SIM GermanyGermany ONLY AustriaAustria ZEL
DNF

literature

  • Michael Völkel: The Lexicon of TV Presenters. Anecdotes, facts and sayings from 50 years of TV history , Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89602-524-4 , p. 190

Web links

Commons : Rainer Günzler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rainer Günzler died . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 3, 1977, ISSN  0174-4909 , p. 17 .
  2. ↑ Michael Behrndt, Jörg-Thomas Födisch, Matthias Behrndt: ADAC 1000 km race , Heel Verlag, Königswinter 2008, ISBN 978-3-89880-903-0 , p. 57 u. 215.
  3. ^ Rüdiger Jungbluth : The Quandts. Your quiet rise to the most powerful economic dynasty in Germany. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2002, ISBN 3-593-36940-0 , p. 280.
  4. ^ Rüdiger Jungbluth: The Quandts. Your quiet rise to the most powerful economic dynasty in Germany. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2002, ISBN 3-593-36940-0 , p. 283.
  5. ^ Rüdiger Jungbluth: The Quandts. Your quiet rise to the most powerful economic dynasty in Germany. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2002, ISBN 3-593-36940-0 , p. 308.
  6. ↑ Most expensive hood ornament: Because of untaxed income as a PR consultant for the auto industry, Kohl's ex-spokesman Boenisch is threatened with a penalty order worth millions . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , June 24, 1985, ISSN  0038-7452 , pp. 20–22 ( Spiegel Archive [accessed on March 11, 2013]).
  7. ↑ Tanja Treser: The Nitribitt Files. In: FOCUS . No. 38/13, from September 16, 2013, p. 57 (photo of Harald Quandt's statement).
  8. ^ Raid Méditerranée-Le Cap 1959
personal data
SURNAME Günzler, Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German presenter and racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH September 5, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH 1st December 1977
Place of death Berlin