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Record winner Georg Meier in 1989 on the Isle of Man with the BMW 255 Kompressor from 1939

Around Scots was a motorsport -Veranstaltung in Scots , on the non-permanent race track of the Scots ring was fought from 1925 to 1955 22 times and currently as a veteran race is performed again.

history

The first edition of the race took place on September 12, 1925. The initiator of the event was the Vogelsberg Automobile and Motorcycle Club founded on July 22, 1925 . One of the winners on the 16.080 km long Schottenring between Schotten , Rudingshain and Götzen was Carl Schott , one of the co-founders of the race in a DKW ARe 175 .

In the years that followed, the event became an integral part of the racing calendar of the German Road Motorbike Championship and the top German drivers and works that were successful across Europe competed every year. Until 1937, with the exception of 1934 and 1935, when construction work was taking place on the track, these motorcycle races were held on the track, which was made up of public country roads.

In the war years , however, the engines fell silent here too, and races around Schotten were not held again until 1947 . Up to and including 1950, although Germany was already divided, the all-German motorcycle championship was held here as well. The record man at that time was Georg Meier from Mühldorf , who won the half-liter race six times in a row between 1947 and 1952 on his supercharged 500 cc BMW boxer . The race reached the climax of its sporting importance in 1953 , when the German Grand Prix for motorcycles, which was part of the motorcycle world championship , was held here. Despite a drivers' strike against the difficult and dangerous street course, the small classes up to 125 and 250 cm³ were counted as world championship runs. After a total of three fatal accidents and a serious accident involving Geoff Duke , one of the world's best pilots at the time, in 1951 and 1952 , the fast and difficult Schottenring was increasingly given the reputation of a dead end. From 1953 onwards there were no longer any carriage races

In 1955, after the terrible accident at the Le Mans 24-hour race, there were only a few smaller events at the Schottenring. This year was the last time around Schotten. 1956 came the final end for the route. From 1968 to 1983 the race was revived by the MSC Rund um Schotten association so that motorcycle races and rallies could take place there again . Since 1989, historic Grand Prix races have taken place on a 1.4 km long inner-city circuit in Schotten, reminding of the great past of this race.

Deadly accidents

There have been a total of eleven fatal accidents in the history of Rund um Schotten. Among other things, the experienced and internationally successful pilot Hans Winkler had an accident in 1936 . There were a total of six deaths between 1948 and 1955. For example, unfortunate Claudio Mastellari and Kurt Praetorius, a passenger in the sidecar of Fritz Hillebrand , 1951, Lous van Rijswijk in 1952 fatal.

Winners list

From 1925 to 1939

Edition	date	class	winner
1.	September 12, 1925	125 cc	Carl Schott ( DKW )
		500 cc	Ludwig Krämer ( Horex )
2.	July 12, 1926	175 cc	Carl Raufenbarth ( DKW )
		250 cc	Hans Reinheimer ( unknown )
		350 cc	Eduard Kratz ( Ardie )
		500 cc	Georg May ( Güldner )
		Teams	Hans Kahrmann / unknown ( unknown )
3.	May 29, 1927	175 cc	Arthur Geiss ( DKW )
		500 cc	Eduard Kratz ( Ardie )
		1000 cc	Ludwig Krämer ( Horex )
4th	June 3, 1928	175 cc	Frank ( unknown )
		250 cc	Karl Frentzen ( UT - JAP )
		350 cc	Hermann Paul Müller ( Grindlay-Peerless )
		500 cc	Hopp ( unknown )
		Carriages (600 cm³)	Hans Kahrmann / unknown ( TAS )
		Carriages (over 600 cm³)	Welfare / unknown ( unknown )
5.	June 15, 1929	175 cc	Walfried Winkler ( DKW )
		250 cc	Arthur Geiss ( DKW )
		350 cc	Karl Gall ( standard )
		500 cc	Karl Gall ( standard )
		1000 cc	Josef Klein ( Horex )
6th	July 27, 1930	250 cc	Arthur Geiss ( DKW )
		350 cc	Arthur Hiller ( Montgomery - JAP )
		500 cc	Toni Bauhofer ( DKW )
		1000 cc	Josef Klein ( Horex )
		Carriages (600 cm³)	Hans Kahrmann / unknown ( Horex )
		Carriages (1000 cm³)	Paul Schneider / unknown ( Hecker - JAP )
7th	July 19, 1931	250 cc	Hans Kahrmann ( Imperia )
		350 cc	August make-up ( Hercules - JAP )
		500 cc	Karl Frentzen ( Ardie )
		1000 cc	Paul Weyres ( Harley-Davidson )
		Teams	Hans Kahrmann / unknown ( unknown )
8th.	June 5, 1932	250 cc	Walfried Winkler ( DKW )
		350 cc	Ernst Loof ( Imperia - Python )
		500 cc	Tom Bullus ( NSU )
		1000 cc	Eduard Kratz ( BMW )
		Carriages (600 cm³)	Hans Kahrmann / unknown ( Horex )
		Carriages (1000 cm³)	Josef Möritz / Alban Böhm ( Victoria )
9.	June 4, 1933	250 cc	Friedel Schön ( Bücker - JAP )
		350 cc	Hans Richnow ( Rudge )
		500 cc	Toni Bauhofer ( DKW )
		1000 cc	Paul Rüttchen ( NSU )
		Carriages (600 cm³)	Albert Schneider / unknown ( Velocette )
		Carriages (1000 cm³)	Josef Möritz / unknown ( Victoria )
1934–1935 there were no races due to work on the track.
10.	July 19, 1936	250 cc	Arthur Geiss ( DKW )
		350 cc	Heiner Fleischmann ( NSU )
		500 cc	Oskar Steinbach ( DKW )
		Carriages (600 cm³)	Karl Braun / Ernst Badsching ( DKW )
		Carriages (1000 cm³)	Hans Kahrmann / Heinrich Eder ( DKW )
11.	September 19, 1937	250 cc	Lothar Berger (racing driver) ( DKW )
		350 cc	Heiner Fleischmann ( NSU )
		500 cc	Heiner Fleischmann ( NSU )
		Carriages (600 cm³)	Hermann Böhm / Karl Fuchs ( NSU )
		Carriages (1000 cm³)	Erwin Zimmermann / Franz Höller ( NSU )
12.	July 10, 1938	250 cc	Hermann Gablenz ( DKW )
		350 cc	Karl Bodmer ( NSU / D-Rad )
		500 cc	Karl Rührschneck / Otto Rührschneck ( Norton )
13.	July 9, 1939	250 cc	Bernhard Petruschke ( DKW )
		350 cc	Hans Richnow ( Rudge )
		500 cc	Hans Lommel ( DKW )

From 1947 to 1955

(colored background = World Championship run as Grand Prix of Germany )

Edition	date	class	winner
14th	June 22, 1947	125 cc	Carl Döring ( DKW )
		250 cc	Karl Lottes ( DKW )
		350 cc	Hein Thorn Prikker ( Velocette )
		500 cc	Georg Meier ( BMW )
15th	August 15, 1948	125 cc	Willy Thorn ( DKW )
		250 cc	Hermann Paul Müller ( DKW )
		350 cc	Wilhelm Herz ( NSU )
		500 cc	Georg Meier ( BMW )
		Carriages (600 cm³)	Hermann Böhm / Bauer ( NSU )
		Carriages (1200 cm³)	Max Klankermeier / Hermann Wolz ( BMW )
16.	August 12, 1949	125 cc	Carl Döring ( DKW )
		250 cc	Friedel Schön ( Bücker - JAP )
		350 cc	Wilhelm Herz ( NSU )
		500 cc	Georg Meier ( BMW )
		Carriages (600 cm³)	Max Klankermeier / Hermann Wolz ( BMW )
		Carriages (1200 cm³)	Sepp Müller / Karl Rührschneck ( BMW )
17th	June 25, 1950	125 cc	PH Ried ( DKW )
		250 cc	Karl Lottes ( DKW )
		350 cc	Heiner Fleischmann ( NSU )
		500 cc	Georg Meier ( BMW )
		Carriages (600 cm³)	Max Klankermeier / Hermann Wolz ( BMW )
		Carriages (1200 cm³)	Wiggerl Kraus / Bernhard Huser ( BMW )
18th	July 15, 1951	125 cc	Hermann Paul Müller ( DKW )
		250 cc	Hermann Gablenz ( Parilla )
		350 cc	Ken Kavanagh ( Norton )
		500 cc	Georg Meier ( BMW )
		Carriages (500 cm³)	Wiggerl Kraus / Bernhard Huser ( BMW )
		Carriages (750 cm³)	Hans Haldemann / Josef Albisser ( Norton )
19th	July 13, 1952	125 cc	Otto Daiker ( NSU )
		250 cc	Enrico Lorenzetti ( Moto Guzzi )
		350 cc	Ray Amm ( Norton )
		500 cc	Georg Meier ( BMW )
		Carriages (500 cm³)	Fritz Hillebrand / Georg Barth ( BMW )
		Carriages (750 cm³)	Wiggerl Kraus / Bernhard Huser ( BMW )
20th	July 19, 1953
		125 cc	Carlo Ubbiali ( MV Agusta )
		250 cc	Werner Haas ( NSU )
		350 cc	Carlo Bandirola ( MV Agusta )
		500 cc	Walter Zeller ( BMW )
21st	August 8, 1954	125 cc	Werner Haas ( NSU )
		250 cc	Rupert Hollaus ( NSU )
		350 cc	Hermann Paul Müller ( NSU )
		500 cc	Walter Zeller ( BMW )
		Carriages (500 cm³)	Willi Faust / Karl Remmert ( BMW )
22nd	July 10, 1955	125 cc	Horst Fügner ( MZ )
		250 cc	Hermann Paul Müller ( NSU )
		350 cc	August Hobl ( DKW )
		500 cc	Walter Zeller ( BMW )
		Carriages (500 cm³)	Willi Faust / Karl Remmert ( BMW )

References

literature

• Ingo Seiff: The Schottenring. Races, drivers and records . Brühlscher Verlag Giessen 1995. ISBN 3-922300-50-2

Web links

• Vincent Glon: All about Schotten - Schotten (Allemagne). racingmemo.free.fr, accessed on February 26, 2013 (French). 
• Motorsport Club Rund um Schotten eV: Schottenring.de
• Literature about all around Schotten in the Hessian Bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of fatal accidents on the Schottenring. www.motorsportmemorial.org, accessed on February 26, 2013 (English).