Richard von Frankenberg - full throttle through life
Biography from the exciting life of Richard von Frankenberg
Hardcover, 216 pages
Published 2009 Delius Klasing Verlag - no longer available in bookshops!
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Author: Donald von Frankenberg
Language: German
Richard von Frankenberg was one of the most successful German car racing drivers of the 1950s. In countless duels with Graf Berghe von Trips, Hans Herrmann, Huschke von Hanstein and other greats in automobile sport, he kept thanks to his risk-based driving style - in racing circles he was called "the horror stone" known - one step ahead. He finally made it onto the front pages of the international press with the legendary accident on the AVUS in 1956, in which his Porsche Spyder was catapulted out of a banked curve at 180 km / h. He also accompanied his active career as a journalist and successful book author. He was editor-in-chief of the Porsche magazine "Christophorus" (founded by him in 1952) and had some influence on the public debate on issues relating to road traffic of his time (introduction of the speed limit, etc.). From the mid-sixties he also worked as a television presenter. Less known than his career in motorsport and journalism is his writing on historical and philosophical topics, where he published under the pseudonym Herbert A. Quint. In 1952, together with Walter Görlitz, he published the first Hitler biography after the Second World War. In 1973 Richard von Frankenberg, one of the last "gentlemen drivers" in motorsport, died in a car accident. In this biography, Donald von Frankenberg, his eldest son, traces the very complex and always fast-paced life of his father.
