Die Automotive Hall of Fame (AHOF)

Die Automotive Hall of Fame (AHOF) ist eine Ehrenhalle für herausragende Persönlichkeiten auf dem Gebiet der Forschung und Entwicklung in der Automobiltechnik.

Geschichte

Charles B. King, ein 1889 in Kalifornien geborener Pionier der Automobiltechnik, gründete 1939 die Gesellschaft „Automotive Old Timers“ (AOT), aus der die AHOF hervorging.

In Midland, Michigan, entstand 1971 auf dem Gelände der Northwood University (ehemals Northwood Institute) ein Museum, das 25 Jahre lang bestand. Um die Attraktivität zu erhöhen, beschloss die Leitung des AHOF dann, einen Standort in der näheren Umgebung der Automobilstadt Detroit zu suchen. Am 16. August 1997 wurden die neuen Räumlichkeiten in Dearborn (Michigan) in der Nachbarschaft des Henry Ford Museums und von Greenfield Village eingeweiht.
Mitglieder der Hall of Fame

In Klammern wird das Jahr der Aufnahme in die Ehrenhalle genannt.

Giovanni Agnelli (2002)
Mario Andretti (2005)
O. Donavan Allen (1974)
John W. Anderson (1972)
Zora Arkus-Duntov (1991)
Clarence W. Avery (1990)
Warren E. Avis (2000)
Béla Barényi (1994)
Vincent Bendix (1984)
Walter Owen Bentley (1995)
Carl Benz (1984)
Nuccio Bertone (2006)
Nils Bohlin (1999)
Robert Bosch (1984)
Charles A. Bott (1990)
Ernest R. Breech (1979)
Allen K. Breed (1999)
Carl Breer (1976)
Edward G. Budd (1985)
Gordon M. Buehrig (1989)
Ettore Bugatti (2000)
David Dunbar Buick (1974)
Philip Caldwell (1990)
Frank J. Campbell (1996)
Michael Cardone (1994)
Walter F. Carey (1981)
Albert Champion (1977)
Roy D. Chapin Jr. (1984)
Roy D. Chapin, Sr (1972)
Louis Chevrolet (1969)
Walter P. Chrysler (1967)
André Citroën (1998)
J. Harwood Cochrane (1991)
Edward N. Cole (1977)
Richard Colliver (2008)
Archie T. Colwell (1988)
Errett Lobban Cord (1976)
Frederick C. Crawford (1983)
Clessie Cummins (1973)
Harlow H. Curtice (1971)
Gottlieb Daimler (1978)
Charles A. Dana (1978)
Edward Davis (1996)
Ralph DePalma (1973)
Joseph R. Degnan (1997)
W. Edwards Deming (1991)
Rudolf Diesel (1978)
Arthur O. Dietz (1983)
Abner Doble (1972)
Horace Elgin Dodge (1981)
John Francis Dodge (1997)
Frederic G. Donner (1994)
Harold D. Draper (1991)
Fred S. Duesenberg (1970)
John Dunlop (2005)
William Durant (1968)
Charles Duryea (1973)
Frank Duryea (1996)
Harley J. Earl (1986)



Dale Earnhardt (2006)
Joseph O. Eaton (1983)
John E. Echlin (1985)
Thomas Alva Edison (1969)
Elliott M. Estes (1999)
Henry T. Ewald (1996)
Virgil Exner (1995)
Battista Farina (2004)
Enzo Ferrari (2000)
Harvey S. Firestone, Jr (1975)
Harvey S. Firestone, Sr (1974)
Carl G. Fisher (1971)
Alfred J. Fisher (1995)
Charles T. Fisher (1995)
Fred J. Fisher (1995)
William A. Fisher (1995)
Edward A. Fisher (1995)
Lawrence P. Fisher (1995)
Howard A. Fisher (1995)
Walter E. Flanders (1994)
Edsel Ford (1968)
Henry Ford (1967)
Henry Ford II (1983)
A. J. Foyt (2007)
Bill France junior (2006)
Bill France senior (2004)
Herbert H. Franklin (1972)
Carlyle Fraser (1981)
Douglas A. Fraser (2000)
Martin Fromm (1993)
Thomas N. Frost (1970)
Paul Galvin (2008)
Robert W. Galvin (2008)
Don Garlits (2004)
Joe Girard (2001)
Giorgio Giugiaro (2002)
John E. Goerlich (1990)
Martin E. Goldman (1981)
Andy Granatelli (2003)
Richard H. Grant (1971)
Dan Gurney (2007)
Zenon C.R. Hansen (1983)
Donald Healey (2004)
Phil Hill (2008)
Max Hoffman (2003)
William E. Holler (1969)
Earl Holley (1995)
George M. Holley, Sr. (1995)
Sōichirō Honda (1989)
August Horch (2000)
Wayne Huizenga (2006)
Anton Hulman, Jr (1978)
Lee Hunter (1992)
J.R. Hyde III (2004)
Lee A. Iacocca (1994)
Bob Irvin (2008)
Shōjirō Ishibashi (2006)
Alec Issigonis (2003)
Thomas B. Jeffery (1975)
Fred Jones (1994)



Henry B. Joy (2003)
Wunibald Kamm (2009)
Katayama Yutaka (1998)
K.T. Keller (1971)
Frank D. Kent (1989)
Charles Kettering (1967)
Charles B. King (2007)
William S. Knudsen (1968)
John W. Koons, Sr (1988)
Edward C. Larson (1984)
Elliott Lehman (1993)
Henry M. Leland (1973)
Paul Weeks Litchfield (1984)
Raymond Loewy (1997)
Wilton D. Looney (1992)
J. Edward Lundy (2003)
Robert A. Lutz (2013)
William Lyons (2005)
John M. Mack (1972)
Wilhelm Maybach (1996)
Frank E. McCarthy (2002)
Denise McCluggage (2001)
Robert B. McCurry (1997)
Brouwer D. McIntyre (1975)
Robert Samuel McLaughlin (1973)
Robert McNamara (1995)
Rene C. McPherson (1991)
William E. Metzger (2008)
Edouard Michelin (2002)
André Michelin (2002)
Arjay Miller (2006)
Harry A. Miller (2003)
William L. Mitchell (1993)
Hubert C. Moog (1988)
Jim Moran (2005)
Charles S. Mott (1973)
Shirley Muldowney (2005)
Thomas A. Murphy (1990)
Charles W. Nash (1975)
Henry J. Nave (1992)
Heinrich Nordhoff (1985)
Barney Oldfield (1968)
Ransom E. Olds (1968)
Carl Opel (1998)
Ludwig Opel (1998)
Wilhelm von Opel (1998)
Friedrich Opel (1998)
Heinrich von Opel (1998)
Nikolaus Otto (1996)
James Ward Packard (1999)
William Doud Packard (1999)
Wally Parks (2000)
Thomas S. Perry (1996)
Donald E. Petersen (1992)
Richard Petty (2002)
Armand Peugeot (1999)
Ferdinand Piëch (2014)
Charles M. Pigott (1998)
Charles J. Pilliod (1992)
Sergio Pininfarina (2007)
Harold A. Poling (1999)
Ralph Lane Polk (2001)



Ferdinand Porsche (1987)
Heinz Prechter (2004)
William A. Raftery (1997)
Alice Ramsey (2000)
Louis Renault (2003)
Walter Reuther (1990)
Eddie Rickenbacker (1973)
James M. Roche (1992)
Willard F. Rockwell (1980)
George W. Romney (1995)
Henry Royce (1991)
James A. Ryder (1985)
Bruno Sacco (2006)
Mort Schwartz (2008)
Louis Schwitzer (1970)
Kenneth W. Self (1994)
Wilbur Shaw (1987)
Carroll Shelby (1992)
Owen R. Skelton (2002)
Alfred P. Sloan (1967)
Arthur O. Smith (1988)
Lloyd R. Smith (1988)
John F. Smith, Jr. (2005)
Charles E. Sorensen (2001)
Clarence W. Spicer (1995)
Francis E. Stanley (1996)
Freelan O. Stanley (1996)
Jackie Stewart (2013)
Walter W. Stillman (1987)
John W. Stokes (1970)
William B. Stout (2001)
Robert A. Stranahan (1979)
John M. Studebaker (2005)
Harry C. Stutz (1993)
Genichi Taguchi (1997)
Walter C. Teagle (1974)
Ralph R. Teetor (1988)
Mickey Thompson (2009)
John J. Telnack (2008)
Henry H. Timken (1977)
Eiji Toyoda (1994)
Shōichirō Toyoda (2007)
Preston Tucker (1999)
Edwin J. Umphrey (1974)
Jesse G. Vincent (1971)
Eberhard von Kuenheim (2004)
Roy Warshawsky (2001)
Elmer H. Wavering (1989)
J. Irving Whalley (1981)
Rollin H. White (1997)
Walter C. White (1997)
Windsor T. White (1997)
John L. Wiggins (1975)
C. Harold Wills (1970)
John N. Willys (2008)
Charles E. Wilson (1969)
Alexander Winton (2005)
Jiro Yanase (2004)
Fred M. Young (1986)
Fred M. Zeder (1998)
Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1998)

Industry Leader of the Year

James E. Lentz (2014)
Alan Mulally (2009)
Richard Colliver (2008)
Phillip D. Brady (2007)
Jim Press (2006)
Dieter Zetsche (2005)
Carlos Ghosn (2004)
Michael J. Jackson (2003)
Rick Wagoner (2002)
Fujio Chō (2001)



Kenneth Way (2000)
John F. Smith Jr. (1999)
Southwood Morcott (1998)
Alex Trotman (1997)
Richard E. Dauch (1996)
Robert Eaton (1995)
Roger Penske (1994)
Harold Arthur Poling (1993)
Frederick Mancheski (1992)
John Grettenberger (1991)
Heinz Prechter (1990)



Ruben F. Mettler (1989)
Bob Galvin (1988)
Donald Petersen (1987)
Roger B. Smith (1986)
John Curcio (1985)
Philip Caldwell (1984)
Roger B. Smith (1983)
Lee Iacocca (1982)

Distinguished Service Citation Award

2009: Gale Banks, Derrick Kuzak, Mark Schienberg, Juliana Terian Gilbert, Edward T. Welburn, Jr., Susan Cischke
2008: Josephine Cooper, Ron Gettelfinger, Frederick A. Henderson, David W. Hermance, David F. Mungenast Sr., Lyn St. James
2007: Dr. Amar G. Bose, Jeffrey A. Cook, Allan Gilmour, Timothy D. Leuliette, Elizabeth A. Lowery, Phil Smart, Sr.
2006: Julie Nguyen Brown, Thomas G. Elliott, Alfred L. Gaspar, Lloyd Reuss, Ralph C. Seekins, Jack Kh. Teahen, Susan J. Unger
2005: Charles Blum, Christine Cortez, Ronald Cutler, Ray Green, James O'Connor, David O'Reilly
2004: J.T. Battenberg III, Gary L. Cowger, Thomas W. LaSorda, Anne Stevens, Richard E. Strauss, Ron B. Tonkin
2003: Marion L. Brem, Joseph C. Day, Thomas Gallagher, William J. Lovejoy, Lynn C. Myers, Jim Press
2002: Thomas J. Davis, Terry M. Ehrich, Andy Granatelli, Joseph Magliochetti, Mary S. Rehwald, Robert L. Rewey
2001: Mong-Koo Chung, Michael H. Dale, Pat Moran, Ross H. Roberts, Takeshi Uchiyamada
2000: Sam C. Cupp, Irma B. Elder, Yale Gieszl, Leon Mandel, E. Thomas Pappert, Cynthia Trudell
1999: Maureen K. Darkes, Bobbie Gaunt, Lawrence R. Gustin, Robert A. Lutz, Larry L. Prince
1998: Dale K. Craig, Martin McInerney, Roy S. Roberts, Ronald H. Weiner, John Wetzel, Hiroyuki Yoshino
1997: William R. Carey, Ralph A. Forbes, H. Leo Mehl, John M. Riess, David Sinclair, O. Temple Sloan
1996: Joseph M. Clapp, J. Lamont Davis, B.J. McCombs, Larry W. McCurdy, Southwood J. Morcott, Heinz C. Prechter, Kenneth L. Way
1995: James L. Burke, Thomas C. Gale, Curtis C. Gunn, James L. Hebe, Harold W. Rockwell, John J. Scalley, Charles E. Walton
1994: Vaughn L. Beals, Jr., Harmon M. Born, Francois J. Castaing, Paul Cole, Jr., Robert H. Raff, Woodrow W. Woody
1993: Keith K. Crain, Arthur Epstein, Gene N. Fondren, Charles M. Jordan, Beverly R. Kimes, Robert A. Lutz, C. J. McCormick, Sam H. White
1992: Michael M. Carey, John M. Giebe, J. David Power III, Mort Schwartz, Nathan Shulman, Jack J. Telnack, James B. Woulfe
1991: Walter V. Alley, Jr., Maurice C. Carter, William C. Hatcher, Robert D. Nesen, Raymond F. O'Brien, John P. Reilly, Robert D. Tuttle
1990: J. Harwood Cochrane, June M. Collier, John M. O'Hara, Allen C. Richey, Ernest N. Robinson, Gordon Rountree, Thomas F. Russell
1989: Bennett E. Bidwell, Earl Dolive, James R. Garfield II, Charles N. Gaskill, David H. Gezon, Joseph S. Holman, R. Gary Stauffer
1988: James K. Ashford, Frank S. Galpin, William E. Hancook, Jr., Gordon B. MacKenzie, Robert M. McElwaine, Roger S. Penske, Robert L. Sirotek
1987: V. James Adduci, Frank E. McCarthy, Robert E. Mercer, Donald E. Peterson, Carroll Shelby
1986: Gerald Greenwald, Frank M. Norflect, Harold A. Poling, Marvin T. Runyon, Roger B. Smith, W. Chandler Stewart
1985: Joseph Gilbert, Frederick J. Mancheski, Warren J. McEleney, Stanley Stephenson, Brooks Stevens, Arthur E. Turner
1984: Michael Cardone, Sr., Martin Fromm, Robert W. Galvin, Harold T. Halfpenny, Kenneth C. Kent, Samuel L. Marshall, F. James McDonald, Charles M. Pigott, John J. Pohanka, Andrew D. Shaw
1983: Wilton D. Looney, Walter M. May, John B. Naughton, Sr., Thomas S. Perry, Emil G. Stanley, W. Athell Yon
1982: Russell W. Case, Robert P. Mallon, E. Mandell de Windt, George W. Merwin, Jr., H. Kenneth Tooman, Alex S. Tremulis
1981: Walter J. Bemb, A.G. Herreshoff, Robert Lund, Thomas McLennan, James W. McLernon, Rene C. McPherson, Richard A. Teague
1980: Paul C. Ackerman, Emile L. Dubois, Maximilian E. Hoffman, John P. Kushnerick, Allen K. Parrish, William S. Pickett, William A. Raftery, Frederick G. Wacker, Jr.
1979: H.F. Boeckmann II, Anthony G. DeLorenzo, Reed T. Draper, Edward C. Larson, Alan G. Loofbourrow, Drexel D. Minshall, John J. Riccardo
1978: Harold T. Ames, L. Scott Bailey, Henry Banks, Harry F. Barr, Zollie S. Frank, George W. Kennedy, John W. Nerlinger, M.H. Yager
1977: John E. Bickel, Eugene Bordinat, J. Clarence Cagle, Archie T. Colwell, Harry Monroe, Jr., Edwin J. Mullane, Thomas A. Murphy
1976: Herbert A. Abramson, Gordon Buehrig, Duane D. Freese, Elliot L. Ludvigsen, Robert E. Peterson, Paul Russo, Charles J. Whittey, Jack K. Williams
1975: Martin H. Bury, Raymond C. Firestone, Jr., Martin E. Goldman, Gilbert L. Haley, Richard D. Kudner, Frank P. Kurtis, Robert D. Lund, Winston W. Marsh, Charles L. McCuen, Henry M. Porter, Kenneth W. Self, Walter W. Stillman, Charles G. Stradella, Mel A. Turner, Sr.
1974: Robert Anderson, Ernest R. Breech, John DeLorean, Raymond Dietrich, Anthony Foyt, Jr., Richard C. Gerstenberg, Karl Kizer, Semon E. Knudsen, William L. Mitchell, Edwin W. Parkinson, C.P. Williams, John F. Winchester
1973: John F. Heflin, Steward C. Holman, Eva I. Mosley, J. Stuart Perkins, Francis C. Turner
1972: Russell DeYoung, Robert M. Finlay, Lee Iacocca, William V. Luneburg, Dorothy M. Ross, Lyman W. Slack, Boyce M. Tope
1971: Roy Abernethy, Fred Agabashian, Harry O. Bell, W. Russell Boss, Sam Hanks, William F. Harrah, Helen R. Kahn, Peter O. Krogh, Matthew S. McLaughlin, Herbert J. Woodall
1970: Elliott M. Estes, Tony Hulman, Jr., William E. Kennedy, Jr., William L. Kissel, Paula Murphy, Willard F. Rockwell, Jr., Sydney G. Tilden, Sr., George R. Vila, J. Irving Whalley
1969: Oscar H. Banker, John N. Bauman, M.R. Darlington, Jr., Peter DePaolo, Harley J. Earl, Henry Ford II, Bill France senior, James L. McGovern, Jr., James M. Roche
1968: Fred M. Young, Virgil E. Boyd, Roy D. Chapin, Jr., Zenon C. Hansen, James C. Moore, Ralph K. Mulford, Lee Oldfield, Marion T. Powers, John L. Wiggins, Birkett L. Williams
1967: Charles A. Dana, W. Sterling Edwards, Leo W. Goosen, Harry Hartz, Carl R. Lane, Nelson K. Mintz, Maurice J. Murphy, Joseph E. Saunders, Myrle E. St. Aubin
1966: Larry H. Averill, Frederic G. Donner, Julie C. Driscoll, C. Isabel Fenton, Earl B. Hathaway, Peter Helck, Ralph H. Isbrandt, Irving B. Kline, Lou Meyer, Charles S. Rogers, Mauri Rose, Louis Schwitzer, Sr., Lynn A. Townsend, Earl Cooper
1965: Lewis D. Crusoe, Herb L. Galles, Jr., Ray Harroun, Thomas H. Keating, Harry J. Klingler, Winfield R. Stephens, Pete Wemhoff
1964: Fred O. Conley, Eldred R. Crow, Robert V. Daly, Ralph R. Teetor, C.W. Van Ranst, Lillian R. Wagner
1963: David E. Castles, Edward N. ColR.A. Harp, Edwin C. Quinn, Ray W. Sherman
1962: George C. Buzby, Sr., John F. Creamer, Earle C. Dahlem, Arthur W. Herrington, A.A. Lally, Jack C. Weed
1957: W. Alton Jones, John L. McCaffrey, Thomas W. Milton, Robert E. Wilson
1956: Albert Bradley, E.J. Bush, Tom Frost, Bert Pierce, George W. Romney
1955: Mary D. Allen, Lester L. Colbert, Frederick C. Crawford, Paul Garrett, Pyke Johnson, Arthur E. Summerfield
1954: Clifford M. Bishop, Arthur O. Dietz, John A. Warner
1953: John R. Davis, Thomas H. MacDonald, George A. Martin, Robert A. Stranahan, Sr., Eli C. Wareheim
1952: John L. Collyer, George W. Mason, Albert A. Pope, Willard F. Rockwell, Sr., John J. Schumann, Jr., Russell E. Singer
1951: Earle Anthony, Paul G. Hoffman, Paul W. Litchfield, William L. Mallon, Wilbur Shaw, William B. Stout
1950: Clarence B. Hayes, Frederick E. Moskovics, Charles S. Mott, Charles E. Wilson
1949: Harvey S. Firestone, Jr., P.M. Heldt, William E. Holler, K.T. Keller, Alfred Reeves
1948: Charles Kettering, H.O. Koller, Alvan Macauley, Leon J. Pinkson, Joseph Tracey
1947: William G. Bryan, William L. Hughson, George Robertson, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
1946: Herbert W. Alden, Ralph DePalma, Charles W. Nash, Arthur L. Newton, Robert Schmunk
1945: Charles H. Davis, William S. Knudsen, Hurlbut W. Smith, Charles E. Sorensen, James T. Sullivan
1941: Henry Cave, J. Frank Duryea, David C. Fenner, Raymond M. Owen, William K. Vanderbilt, Thomas A. Willard
1940: Walter C. Baker, Julian Chase, Charles S. Henshaw, Charles B. King, Ransom E. Olds


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