Welcome to the Unimog-Club Gaggenau e.V.
Dear club members and friends of the Unimog!
We would like to share with you our passion for the universal motorised machine from Mercedes-Benz. One of the main tasks of our club is the care and preservation of this automotive contemporary witness. The community is promoted through a wide range of events at regional and international meetings. Our international annual meeting in 2024, the many meetings of the regional groups, the general meeting at the Unimog Museum and our parts market always attract Unimog enthusiasts from all over Europe.
Today, the Unimog-Club Gaggenau e. V. is an international association of Unimog and MBtrac friends with over 8,000 members in 49 countries.
We feel it is our responsibility to collect the diverse information on the history, technology and use of the various Unimog and MBtrac series, to make this knowledge available to our members and at the same time to maintain enthusiasm for a unique vehicle concept.
Enjoy the pages of the Unimog-Club Gaggenau e. V.
Rainer Hildebrandt, 1st Chairman
Our current top topics:
Unimog Information System | General Meeting 2024 | Unimog Magazine 122 in DE & EN | UCG Annual Meeting 2024 | New Edition Special U 411
Issue 124 of the Unimog Heft’l published
The latest issue of the Unimog Club Gaggenau members’ magazine “Unimog-Heft’l” under the new direction of Helge Bendl is on its way to the members. Issue 124 is all about practical tips for travelling, the Uniknick experiment, implement carriers with hydrogen drive and the air-cooled MB-trac from Germany to Algeria and back.
Become a member now and receive the magazine in German or English. More at www.unimog-club-gaggenau.de
🇮🇹 Impressions of the UCG annual meeting 2024 in Sand in Taufers, South Tyrol 🇮🇹
This year’s UCG annual meeting took place in Italy/South Tyrol. Surrounded by mountains and breathtaking scenery, Unimog enthusiasts met to exchange ideas and cultivate Unimog friendships. The Gaggenau Unimog Club organised a varied supporting programme to ensure that there was never a dull moment.
🙏 Jochen Biederer has created a film worth seeing.
📸 youtube.com/@JochenBiederer
A look back: The 2023 annual meeting in Aufenau / 30 years of the Unimog Club Gaggenau
On the long weekend from 8 to 11 June, many Unimog enthusiasts took the opportunity to come to Aufenau (near Frankfurt am Main). The rush was so great, in fact, that from Friday onwards nothing was possible and only registered visitors with their Unimog could get a place on the site. In perfect weather, the participants and day visitors had a lot to discover. Not only the more than 500 different Unimogs, but also the driving on the course or off-road, the parts market, the children’s corner and the other supporting programme left nothing to be desired. The new club Unimog had its first outing at the meeting. It travelled over 200 km on the course. Driver André Gammenthaler was in constant use, and the passengers were thoroughly impressed. There was also more than enough reason to celebrate, as the Unimog Club Gaggenau was celebrating its thirtieth anniversary and the Rhine-Main regional group had been in existence for 20 years. As a result, the atmosphere was exuberant in the evenings, even with brass band music in the marquee on Friday. New Unimog friendships and contacts were made and the participants will remember this meeting for a long time to come.
A film about the meeting will be released soon. The link will then be published here.
Photos: Klaus Lukas
The big rush, a long Unimog queue
Unimog on the MSC Aufenau course.
View of part of the event site from above.
Family growth for the Unimog Club Gaggenau
There are many stories surrounding the universal motorised vehicle from Mercedes-Benz Trucks – known worldwide as the Unimog for over 75 years. Whether as a helper in forest firefighting, as a motorhome for travelling explorers or as a reliable road maintenance vehicle for municipal use – the Unimog combines a wide range of applications and has a gigantic fan community.
The Unimog Club Gaggenau e.V. (UCG) is part of this community and has been keeping the fascination of the Unimog alive for 30 years. Now, after more than 20 years, the club’s Unimog U 4000 is getting a “brother” in the form of the new Unimog U 5023 with crew cab.
Franziska Cusumano, Head of Mercedes-Benz Special Trucks & Custom Tailored Trucks, praised the work of the UCG and the partnership-based cooperation during the vehicle handover: “The club with its numerous members stands for the passion that the Unimog has inspired for over 75 years. Maintaining and preserving these contemporary automotive witnesses is an important task that the club fulfils with great effort together with the Unimog Museum.”
Rainer Hildebrandt, Chairman of the Board of the Unimog-Club Gaggenau e.V. (UCG):
“We are delighted to have so much support from Mercedes-Benz Special Trucks and to be building a steadily growing fan base together. With the new vehicle, we can fulfil the members’ need to be able to experience the new model series up close. The U 5023 is state of the art and will turn heads when it appears in public.”
Rainer Hildebrandt, CEO of the Unimog-Club Gaggenau e.V. (UCG) and Franziska Cusumano, Head of Mercedes-Benz Special Trucks & Custom Tailored Trucks.
Rainer Hildebrandt, CEO of the Unimog Club Gaggenau e.V. (UCG) and Franziska Cusumano, Head of Mercedes-Benz Special Trucks & Custom Tailored Trucks. Photo: Daimler Trucks
More than 8,500 members in the Unimog-Club Gaggenau e.V
The figures are impressive, as a further 1,400 members have joined the Unimog Club in the last five years, bringing together Unimog fans from 49 countries. in 2022, the eight thousandth member, Lukas Gerhold from Voitsberg, Austria, was welcomed. This means that the Austria East regional group has grown. Lukas Gerhold has an intense relationship with the Unimog. This vehicle has accompanied him all his life on his parents’ farm, a Unimog 406 and 421 are still in use today, and there used to be a Unimog 401 and 411. And of course he helps out with maintenance work himself so that he can enjoy his Unimog for a long time to come.
The Unimog in harvesting operation
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Unimog legend and honorary member Roland Feix remembers the beginnings of the Unimog
Roland Feix was already at Boehringer and witnessed the beginnings of the Unimog. He accompanied the Unimog around the world for decades and was responsible for sales in South America, among other things.