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Gernot Minig, founder

of Ulysses-Club Germany e.V.

orn in Saarland (the small federal state in the south-west
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Until his retirement, he worked as a grammar school teacher
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From his younger days on, motorcycle riding was one of his hobbies,
later on joined by sky gliding. Between 1990 and 1992, he worked
in Australia as an exchange teacher, where he got in touch with the
Ulysses Club. Gernot felt enthusiastic about the Ulysses concept
of a social club for elder riders and became a member. At the end
of the nineteen-nineties, he once again resorted to Australia, but this
time by bike, on his beloved Africa Twin. For this extraordinary journey,
he took a sabbatical and was on the road for about one year,
including expanded tours through Australia. So he became friends with
a good number of Australian Ulyssians.
Inspired by this positive experience, he returned with the idea
to establish a Ulysses branch back home in Germany. After having
obtained the authorization for this project by the Australian club, in
2002 the Ulysses-Club Germany started with Gernot as founder and
President and a couple of his friends as members. In the begin-
ning, the German club was an informal organization and became
a registered association not before 5 November 2011, when the two
letters e.V.” (that means, eingetragener Verein”, in English: registered
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tiago de Compostela in Spain in 2003 with six participants. Other
rides followed, within and outside of Germany, and right from the
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