Racing team hammer

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In the post-war years, the Hammer racing team was a Reutlingen-based car and motorcycle business as well as a trade fair and motorsport organizer. In 1946 the racing team was still active in Tübingen .

Kurt, Hugo and Rolf Hammer

The brothers Kurt, Hugo and Rolf Hammer organized car races in Tübingen in 1949 and 1950, which attracted tens of thousands of visitors. In 1948 they organized the 1st Tübingen Motorsport Show in Tübingen Castle , which attracted 11,000 visitors, and in 1949 even more. There you can see the latest racing and sports cars, racing motorcycles, accessories and vintage cars, as well as well-known racing drivers such as motorcycle racing driver and world record holder Ernst Henne .

In 1946 Kurt Hammer was a co-founder of the South German Motor Racing Association and co-organizer of the Ruhestein hill climb . The French military government granted the racing license as part of the re-education , the re-education of the Germans at good Democrats . Rolf Hammer, the youngest of the three brothers, was one of the winners in the motorcycle class up to 125 cm³ in this race. However, the poorly secured race was overshadowed by accidents with three deaths.

The brothers operated the Puch general agency in Tübingen-Reutlingen and took part in the ADAC Deutschlandfahrt 1950 on the Puch 125 in the class up to 125 cm³.

further reading

  • Frank Eberle, Hubert Huber, Roger Orlik and Martin Walter: Ruhestein hill climb 1946. The new beginning of German motorsport. Publishing house Seeger-Press, Albstadt. 230 pages.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The first race after the war. (PDF; 256 kB) Reutlinger Generalanzeiger, December 3, 2011. See also www.gea.de
  2. ↑ a b Motorsport and “IAA”: Tübingen and Reutlingen were crazy about cars after the war. ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Tagblatt Anzeiger, May 25, 2011.
  3. ↑ Ruhesteinrennen 1946.