Clärenore Stinnes

Clärenore Stinnes, actually: Clara Eleonore Stinnes, ( born January 21, 1901 in Mülheim an der Ruhr, † 7 September 1990 in Sweden) was a German racing driver. Together with Carl -Axel Söderström she rounded 1927 to 1929 in a car the earth.

Life

Clärenore was born on 21 January 1901 as a daughter of the industrialist Hugo Stinnes and his wife Clare.

With the photographer Carl -Axel Söderström, whom she had met only shortly before departure, two technicians and an accompanying truck broke on May 25, 1927 in a standard Adler Standard 6 on a trip around the world. About the Balkans and Moscow, where the two technicians tasks, the trip went through Siberia and the Gobi Desert to Beijing. By boat they crossed to Japan and on about Hawaii to North America. They crossed Central America and South America to Buenos Aires and back to Vancouver. Through the U.S. went the journey over Washington, DC, where they were received by President Herbert Hoover, to New York. The trip to Europe was carried out with the ship. The two docked at Le Havre and drove to Berlin. After almost 47,000 kilometers traveled, they reached on 24 June 1929, the capital. The world tour lasted two years and one month.

Upon their return, and the divorce from his first wife Söderströms Clärenore Stinnes and Söderström married in December 1930. They farmed a farm in southern Sweden and moved next three children own several foster children large. In later years Clärenore Stinnes always spent part of the year in Irmenach.

Filming

The resulting 2008/2009 documentary feature film Miss Stinnes Travels the World with Sandra Huell in the title role, tells the adventurous journey of Clärenore Stinnes after.