Emil "Teddy" Vorster (12 April 1910 – 10 May 1976) is a

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racing driver and

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, so-called ''gentleman-racing driver'' and motorsport-

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(owner/general manager of C. C. bang Silk weaving) of

Rheydt Rheydt () is a borough of the German city Mönchengladbach, located in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia. Until 1918 and then again from 1933 (due to a split from Mönchengladbach arranged by Joseph Goebbels, who was born there) through 1975 it w ...

Emil Vorster is known size of German autosports scene before and after the

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and vehicles of the German manufacturer AFM, he participated successfully in many races. From the end of 1947, in early 1948 he was the driving force behind the project

Grenzlandring The Grenzlandring (German for "border-region ring"), sometimes written ''Grenzland-Ring'', is a former high-speed oval race track in the Lower Rhine area of Germany, around the town of Wegberg, located close to Mönchengladbach and the Dutch tow ...

(border-region ring), until this forever has been blocked after the fatal crash with 13 or 14 dead and 42 wounded on 31 August 1952, as a track. Vorster's own active career ended by mid-1949 after he suffered a serious accident at the Aachen Forest race in Aachen where a spectator killed had come and at least three others were injured. From 1962 to 1975, the co-founder and long-time Chairman of the Rheydt sports clubs for Motorsport (RCM) was the President of the German Motorsport Association (DMV) and Hans Stuck replaced his predecessor in this role. Vorster was among other things on the international motorsport stage as Honorary Deputy President (GER. Honorary Vice-President) Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) and awarded the

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. After three failed marriages Emil Vorster was married to his death in 1976 with the in the 1940s and 1950s known

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Ruth Lommel Ruth Lommel (1918–2012) was a German stage and film actress.Giesen p. 185 She was the daughter of the actor Ludwig Manfred Lommel. Her brother Ulli Lommel also became an actor, while another brother Manuel Lommel is a cinematographer. She w ...

(daughter of

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and sister of actor and director

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and cinematographer Manuel Lommel).

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1910 births 1976 deaths German racing drivers Businesspeople from North Rhine-Westphalia Grand Prix drivers Sportspeople from Mönchengladbach Racing drivers from North Rhine-Westphalia Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany {{Germany-business-bio-stub