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Fritz Sittig Enno Werner von Hanstein, nicknamed Huschke was born in Halle on 3rd January 1911 to a Prussian noble family, his father Carlo von Hanstein was a Prussian Army officer and Junker. In the late 1930s, Huschke drove a BMW 328 and in 1940, together with Walter Bäumer won the Mille Miglia.

As a result of the war, Hanstein's family's possessions were lost in socialist East Germany.

Somewhat impoverished, he took to racing kleinstrennwagens in a Condor, taking a win at Aachen in July 1949, a  second at Leverkusen in August and another win at Grenzlandring in September.

In June 1950, he married Ursula von Kaufmann at the Nürburgring circuit and Huschke achieved a second at Feldbergrennen in October, driving a Monopoletta.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hanstein joined Porsche, then a small sports car manufacturer, serving as an ambassador especially to foreign markets like France, which were rather difficult for Germans at the time.

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