The ADAC ( Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club eV ) is the German car club, founded on May 24, 1903, as the German Motorbiker Association ( "Deutsche Motorradfahrer-Vereinigung" ), and renamed to now in 1911.
With over 18 million members by May 2012, this is Europe's largest car club. It is also the largest motorcycle association in the world, with 1.5 million members.
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Overview
Both ADAC, and its older competitor AvD (German Grand Prix organizers), are members of the FIA ​​and DMSB. European Grand Prix, former ADAC Eifelrennen, 24 Hours NÃÆ'¼rburgring and many other races hosted by ADAC.
ADAC also operates a large fleet of cellular mechanisms in yellow cars that help motorists in trouble - Yellow Angels . ADAC runs its own modification center where the ordinary van is converted into a car garage (the picture only describes Ford Galaxy) in 55 working hours.
In addition, ADAC provides 44 air ambulance helicopters for urgent medical rescue in Germany, strategically placed so that each location can be reached within 15 minutes. Air ambulance jets are used by ADAC to rescue members with "PLUS" membership or customers who have international ADAC travel insurance from any location worldwide in cases of extreme accidents or illnesses. ADAC also offers its membership to non-Germans, after signing contracts with car clubs around the world. In the UK, it is possible to recover the damage through local AA when it has ADAC membership.
ADAC is the largest German distribution publisher,
On 3 June 2008, ADAC suspended its involvement with the FIA ​​over the scandal surrounding Max Mosley and subsequent retention as FIA president.
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International affiliation
ADAC has a reciprocal arrangement with various international affiliates, including
- AA in the United Kingdom
- AAA in the United States
- RACE in Spain
History
ADAC was established on May 24, 1903 at the Hotel Silber (Hotel Perak) Stuttgart, as the Deutsche Motorradfahrer-Vereinigung ( German Motorbiker Association ), with an annual membership fee of six Marks. After the name change in 1911 became Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club The Prussian Eagle, which for many years was the main feature of the ADAC badge was chosen as a symbol of the organization in appreciation of support received from German Kaiser who was also the king of Prussian descent.
ADAC's break-even support service was launched in Germany in 1927.
During the Nazi period, beginning in 1934, all racing organizations and clubs were replaced by "Der Deutsche Automobil-Club e.V." (German Car Club) which is closely related to the National Socialist Motor Corps. After the Second World War, ADAC was re-established in Bavaria in 1946, and from 1948 it was also allowed to operate in another western occupation zone which in 1949 would become the Federal Republic of West Germany.
In 1954 Heinz FrÃÆ'¶lich became the first (in that year) 56 ADAC patrols, equipped with a motorcycle-sidecar combination, in which side cars consisted of large compartments filled with equipment and spare parts for roadside repairs. The original ADAC "Gelbe Engel" ("Yellow Angels") uses a motorcycle "NSU Konsul".
At the end of 1962 ADAC announced the resignation of their motor-bicycle-sidecar combination to be replaced by 40 Volkswagen Beetles that were properly equipped. Equipment on the new car includes flashing roof lights, appliance repair, radio-based communication devices, compressed air tubes, shovels and broom sets, and a basic "doctor-kit" that incorporates blood plasma.
In 1974 the organization had 3.8 million members at the time there were 19.0 million passenger cars registered in Germany: in 1990 the membership had increased to 10.2 million, with 35.5 million registered passenger cars in the country, thus membership ADAC has grown more than doubled. as fast as the national car ownership. The growth rate over the next twenty years was greatly encouraged by German reunification.
May 2012 is when the organization welcomes its 18 million members, a further milestone reached in May 2013 when ADAC installed its 10,000 roadside assistance vehicle, a Volkswagen Touran, equipped with several hundred different tools and spare parts.
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EuroRAP in Germany
ADAC is an active member of the European Road Assessment Program (EuroRAP) in Germany. ADAC regularly publishes maps showing the characteristics of German road safety.
These maps are based on the EuroRAP Road Protection Protocol Score (or Star Rating Protocol) is a measure of how well roads protect road users in the event of an accident. Data on road characteristics are collected by driving through road inspections using specially equipped RPS inspection vehicles (Straest vehicles in German). Trained assessors then assess safety features and hazards in the way they are examined and use standard formulas to produce security ratings - star ratings - comparable across Europe.
ADAC also conducts road inspections on behalf of other EuroRAP members, including the UK Road Safety Foundation.
Campaigning for a Safe Road Design
The European Campaign for Secure Road Design is a partnership between 28 major European road safety stakeholders who are calling on the EC to invest in a secure road infrastructure initiative that can reduce street death Europe by 33% in less than a decade. ADAC is a campaign partner in Germany.
See also
- Breakdown (vehicle)
- Closing Details
- European Campaign for Secure Road Design
- EuroRAP
References
External links
- Definition of ADAC dictionary in Wiktionary
- The official ADAC website
- Initial documents and clippings about ADAC at the 20th Century Press Archives of the German National Library of Economics (ZBW).
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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