A bit like Count Lurani, he was an European way before Europe existed. Like him, he made a business out of his passion in the post-war years, writing about cars and dealing with them. If you were looking for a great used Rolls-Royce or a SSK in the fifties, you just had to go to his rural farm.
His Mercedes-Benz book is highly recommended, and here is a small part dealing with the St. Moritz speedweek:
“- The International automobile week at St. Moritz, for which Caracciola had flown back from Ireland, was quite a gala for Mercedes-Benz. In the touring class of the rally an eight-cylinder and six-cylinder were fisrt and second, having been driven an astronomical number of miles by Georg Zettritz and Wessels respectively. The flat races were mostly Mercedes victories. Momberger made fastest time for sports-cara with Prince zu Leiningen second, both on SSKs. In the touring class Georg Zettritz just managed to make best time on a 26/220. He only beat, by one-tenth of a second, Frau Paula Merz, a Swiss lady, driving a 38/250 who won the Ladies’ Prize. Alfred Hirte, junior, was third on an old K. Best time of the day was made by Rosenberger on the supercharged 1914 car in achieving 115 m.p.h. Caracciola and Rolf von Dojmi on SSKs were first and second in the class for racing-cars of up to 8 litres. But even Caracciola did not go quite as fast as Rosenberger. –“
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