Salzburg Automobile Club

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The Salzburg Automobile, Motorcycle and Touring Club was founded in 1907 as the Salzburg Automobile Club (SAC) . It celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2007.

history

Interwar period

In 1924, after an interruption due to the war, it was brought back to life under President Hermann Gessele and Vice President Mayr-Melnhof and Josef Klein.

The offices were located in Schwarzstrasse No. 7 in the city of Salzburg , the club evenings took place alternately in the Hotel de l'Europe (no longer exists today) at the main train station or in the Hotel Münchnerhof .

As early as 1932, kiosks were set up at the border stations of Walserberg , Steinpass , Rott (Freilassing) and Hangenden Stein ( Berchtesgaden ), where you could get border documents and tourist information.

The outbreak of war led to the forced dissolution of the SAC, which at that time, in 1938, already had 1,484 members in Salzburg .

After the Second World War

In February 1946, the SAC then received approval from the state government to start again. On November 30, 1946, the first general assembly of the SAC, which had teamed up with the second existing club, the Austrian Touring Club , took place. The tiny office was initially located at Makartplatz No. 7, and from 1950 in a new building at Max-Ott-Platz No. 6.

The club then took on an important task from August 1951 at the Walserberg border crossing : There was still a visa requirement for Germany and a kiosk was set up there for the purpose of exhibition and information.

In 1955 they moved into the long-standing club on Schrannengasse. The SAMTC now has 12,000 members. Mobile breakdown assistance started on August 1, 1959 with four Puch 500 as the "Yellow Angels". The traffic training area on Innsbrucker Bundesstrasse was built in 1967. In the 1970s the office moved again to Alpenstraße, where the SAMTC is still located today.

Sections

Inter-war period: The SAC had a sports committee (preparation of motorsport events), a transport committee (focus of activity: improving road conditions, facilitating international border traffic) and a commercial vehicle section.

A separate flight section, the aero section , was founded in 1930 and was dedicated to gliding on the Haunsberg. One of the most famous members was Eduard Kuhn, who ran a flight school at Salzburg Airport and died in a crash in 1932.

The presidents

  • ? Count Lamberg
  • 1924–1930: Hermann Gessele
  • 1930–1938: Prussia
  • 1947–1952: Richard Hildmann
  • ...
  • Current: Michael Pistauer

Events organized by the SAMTC

  • On Sunday, May 10, 1925, the SAC organized a hill climb on Rengerberg on Vienna's federal road , today federal road No. 1;
  • From 1929 organizer of the Gaisberg race .
  • In the spring of 1947, on May 4th, the first sand track race of the post-war period in Salzburg attracted 20,000 spectators to the trotting track in Salzburg- Aigen .
  • On July 6, 1947: the first autobahn race in Salzburg- Liefering on part of the western autobahn . About 25,000 spectators came to this event. The SAMTC also organized this race in 1948, 1949 and 1951.
  • On May 7, 1950, the twelve-hour long-distance journey took place on the route Salzburg - Pass Lueg - Bischofshofen - Sankt Johann im Pongau - Zell am See - Wörgl - Innsbruck and on towards Arlberg.
  • 1951 Skijöring (automobiles and motorcycles pull skiers on a rope around the circuit) on the trotting track in Salzburg-Aigen .
  • After 1948: Gaisberg valuation drives, later entered into the motorsport history of Salzburg as the Gaisberg race .
  • In 1952, the first ice race took place on Lake Zell , which later took place in memory of Ferdinand Porsche until 1961.
  • In 1958, 1961, 1963 and 1986 record speed drives were made on the motorway near Anif - Grödig .
  • In the 1960s, the SAMTC organized motocross races on the Zistelalm am Gaisberg .

From 1974 co-organizer of the Oldtimer Grand Prix at the Salzburgring .

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