Bernd Ziskofen (* 2. May 1942; "† 9 November 1993 in Hamburg), a buyer from rear spar new ditch, applies among specialists, also more as a dozen of years after its death, still than one of the most influential personalities in the history of the Rallycross sport.

As chairmen of many years of its engine haven association, automobile club the Niederelbe (ACN), it ensured for the fact that that arrived to at the beginning of of 1967 in England invented Rallycross also to Germany. Ziskofen and its fellow combatants succeeded it to establish the new Funsport into Buxtehude and to transform the there Estering out completely in the course of the years into a RX-Mekka for many racing friends Europe. When in relation to new ideas unlocked competition organizers (first Rallycross running on the Estering found in May 1972) it was also considerably involved in the fact that there was for the first three years a still unofficial European championship for this recent autohaven discipline, which is adopted however since 1976 finally of the FIA starting from 1973. Based on Ziskofens initiative was created on 14 December 1974 on the airport Amsterdam Schiphol in the Netherlands the EM-run-Veranstaltergemeinschaft European Rallycross Association (ERA), whose vice-president was he up to his sudden death.

Beyond that Ziskofen was president of the German Rallycross combination (DRV), the Rallycross specialist of the ONS at that time (today replaced by the DMSB) and extremely active member of the off Road Commission of the world automobile haven sovereignty FIA. It could prevent beginning of the 1980er that the Buxtehuder racing course was always closed, because some Estering neighbours wanted to bear at a hand running day to be counted per year not further. After 1983 the enterprise of the plant had to be completely adjusted, she was again opened for at the beginning of of 1984, modernized and pleased afterwards continuously up to the today's day each year of thousands of RX-fans. You "godfather ", Bernd Ziskofen became however only 51 years old and died at heart failure, whole two days after a meeting of the ERA, which he had organized and had along-led in Hamburg. Its name is however always inseparably connected to its "Estering before the gates with the national and international Rallycross sport and "by Buxtehude.

Related links

• Estering/ACN homepage (dt.)
• ERA homepage (English)
• Prominent Rallycross Website (dt. /engl.)

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