Tribute to Elly Beinhorn-Rosemeyer (3 new videos online)

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Bottom post of the previous page:

All 3 parts are now online. I think they're really worth downloading (also for non german-speakers).
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Thanks sebbbl, I'll take a look later today.
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Today I was lucky to meet Prof. Dr. Bernd Rosemeyer. He spent over 30min to talk to me about his famous parents and his future-abitions and to sign some of my books and cards... It was a great day for me and I'll post pictures and the full story when I'm back home from a trip on wednesday.

EDIT: a little preview: myself (anticipated on the left) next to Bernd Rosemeyer. In the background you can see a Klemm-aeroplane that Elly Beinhorn used to fly.

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Wow, that's very cool :thumbsup:
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Hi everybody :wave: ,

last weekend (friday-sunday) there was an automobile-fair in Dresden, the "auto mobil". On thursday I read in the local newspaper that Bernd Rosemeyer Jr. will be the patron of that fair and that he'll be there to open and represent it.
I decided to go there and to take some books and some self-made autograph-cards with me to have them signed and maybe even to get the chance to talk to him (maybe 2 or 3 minutes). I arrived at 11.00am on friday and went roughly through the fair-halls. I already noticed the stand with the race-cars and the nicely-made information-boards. Then a velo-taxi with "VIP" crossed my way and Bernd Rosemeyer Jr. was in it - he was shown the fair... nobody really recognized him or payed attention to him - quite weird as he's a well known person (in "our" sphere). I followed the velo-taxi to the Rosemeyer-Beinhorn stand where he left the velo-taxi and had a look at the posters on the walls with pictures of his parents. Than he sat down and browsed through some papers with his opening-speech in the evening. He is 70 years old and in very good condition - he looks much younger and is only limping because of a torn Achilles tendon.
As he was alone I asked him whether it's possible to have quick chat. He was very friendly and asked me to sit down next to him... ***to be continued***

Here're some of the photos I took...

Bernd Rosemeyer Jr. at the table where we talked
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The plane "Klemm" that his mother used to fly
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The table where we sat with the information-boards in the background
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Bernd Rosemeyer Jr. during an interview for TV
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Bernd Rosemeyer Jr. during th opening-speech in the evening
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Signed books and cards
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GreezZ, sebbbl :smiley:

I'll post some impressions from the talk we had in a few days - I haven't much time at the moment.
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Very good thread sebbl; thanks for sharing :smiley:
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I just learned that Bernd Rosemeyer junior died 2 months ago.

https://www.blick.de/erzgebirge/sohn-de ... el10875885

A very nice man and humble man. May he rest in piece.
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sebbbl wrote: 3 years ago I just learned that Bernd Rosemeyer junior died 2 months ago.

https://www.blick.de/erzgebirge/sohn-de ... el10875885

A very nice man and humble man. May he rest in piece.
Oh, I didn't hear this so far. RIP
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Here’s a short interview with him as I got to know him...

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It's a shame he never knew his father, a legendary name now.
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