Düsseldorfer Automobil- und Motorsport-Club 05

Formation

The club is one of the oldest motor sport clubs in Germany. It was founded on 27 May 1905 as the Motorrad-Club Düsseldorf (Motorcycle Club Düsseldorf), which only six months later joined the equally new Düsseldorfer Motorradfahrer-Vereinigung (Düsseldorf Motorcyclists' Association).

Even before the outbreak of World War 1, the club organised motor-sport meetings such as reliability runs. Later on, important oval-track motorcycle races took place in Düsseldorf. The club members were successful in these and in other events. Ralph Roese, Jupp Müller and Itz Rosenbaum had numerous victories on tracks all over Germany. Müller was twice German Champion in all categories. To the present day the names of Heinz Kürten, Alfred Noll, Toni Ulmen and Kurt C. Volkhart are commonly heard amongst enthusiasts of motorcycle and car races.

After the war, the Eifelrennen and the German TT in Nideggen in the Eifel mountains were the biggest events the club drivers took part in.

Self-liquidation and refounding

In 1933 the club made the decision to close down. However, only one year after the end of World War 2, former club members Hermann Schlessmann, Toni Ulmen, Josef Jacobs, Werner Seidel, Jules Köther, Erich Hebmüller, Itz Rosenbaum and Heinz Müller founded the new club, called the Düsseldorfer Automobil- und Motorsport-Club 05 (ADAC), abbreviated to DAMC 05. One year later the Kölner Club für Motorsport (Cologne Motorsports Club), the Bergischer Motorclub and DAMC 05 together founded the ADAC Nordrhein.

In fall 2018, the club founded an esports division, offering an additional opportunity outside of the race track. The club focuses on integrating the real motorsport and local community to avoid the distance of virtual sim racing teams.

The team from Düsseldorf started since 2019 in the ADAC Digital Cup.