Richard Dörnke

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Memorial stone for Richard Dörnke from ADAC Lower Saxony at the Stöcken city cemetery in Hanover , department A 25

Richard Dörnke (* 1890 ; † August 8, 1954 in Hanover ) was a German paper wholesaler , sports functionary and founder of the Eilenriederennens .

Life

Born in the early days of the German Empire , the paper wholesaler Richard Dörnke had good relations with the Hanover city director , the Hanover police president and the members of the Hanover city hall as a sports director, organizer and sports commissioner after the First World War . Nevertheless, he - the district manager of the Lower Saxony Motorbike Club (MCN), which was founded by ADAC Niedsachsen at the beginning of the Weimar Republic and already had over three hundred members in 1923 - had to fight for a year to make his vision a reality, the first in 1924 Eilenriederennen and to host the largest sports spectacle in Hanover at the time.

In 1952, the news magazine Der Spiegel reported on the ADAC sports director and his "[...] Dörnke consequence", with the 20 places advertised at the start and the entry fee to be paid by the organizer, no distinction was made between factory drivers and private drivers.

After Dörnke died on August 8, 1954 shortly before the start of the Eilenrieder race he had prepared, the 125 cc motorcycles started the “Richard Dörner Memorial Run”, which was also to be the last and winning race for world champion Rupert Hollaus . Around 400 mourners and companions from Dörnke accompanied him on his last trip to his tomb , which was later leveled . In the early 1990s, ADAC Niedersachsen erected a memorial stone in Dörner's honor on the Stöcken cemetery in section A 25 , on the large pond near the grave of honor of the garden artist Julius Trip , who designed this part of the cemetery in the style of an English landscape garden.

literature

  • Janet Anschütz: Motorcycle racing. International Eilenriede races in Hanover 1924–1955 . ADAC Lower Saxony-Saxony-Anhalt e. V. (ed.). MatrixMedia-Verlag, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-932313-34-9
  • Richard Birkefeld: Richard Dörnke (1890-1954). Founder of the Eilenriederennens . In: Beyond Life. A stroll through Hanover's cemeteries , book accompanying the exhibition in the Hanover Historical Museum from September 15, 2010 to January 9, 2011, Hanover: Stadt Hannover, 2010

Web links

Commons : Richard Dörnke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Dörnke, Richard in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library , edited on April 26, 2011, last accessed on May 8, 2016
  2. ↑ a b Janet Anschütz : Nervenkitzel im Stadtwald , in: nobilis , March 2008 edition, pp. 36–40; downloadable as a PDF document
  3. ↑ Markus Golletz: History of the Eilenriederennen in Hanover 1924-1955 , presentation of Janet's Anschütz book Motorrad-Rennsport ... (see in the literature section ) on the page motorradreisefuehrer.de , last accessed on May 8, 2016
  4. ↑ Adelheid von Saldern , Sid Auffarth (Ed.): Weekend & beautiful appearance. Leisure and modern life in the twenties. The example of Hanover (= Elefanten-Press , issue 407), Berlin: Elefanten Press, 1991, ISBN 3-88520-407-X , p. 17; Preview over google books
  5. ↑ a b c Stefan Amt : The Park Landscape: Stöcken / "This is a natural paradise" , part of the series Graves, Crypts & History , in: [[Neue Presse (Hanover) |]] of November 18, 2010, p. 28
  6. ↑ NN : Motorcycle Championship / Can't count for much , in: Der Spiegel , issue 37/1952 of September 10, 1952; online articles
  7. ^ Wolfgang Leonhardt : List, Vahrenwald, Vinnhorst. Three districts of Hanover with history (s). Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3-8448-7810-3 , pp. 20, 25; mostly online via Google books
  8. ↑ Compare the inscription on the memorial stone, for example on this photo document
  9. ↑ Silke Beck, Cordula Wächter (Red.), Michael Krische : Stadtfriedhof Stöcken , with a tour and an overview map as a folding map, ed. from the state capital Hanover, The Lord Mayor , Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, Hanover: LHH, 2009, passim ; downloadable as a PDF document from hannover.de
personal data
SURNAME Dörnke, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German paper wholesaler, sports official and founder of the Eilenriederennes
DATE OF BIRTH 1890
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1954
Place of death Hanover