Erich Honecker drove a Mercedes-Benz in his private life - the all-terrain luxury class of the so-called class enemy! The 1983 Mercedes-Benz 280 GE used as a hunting car is now on display at the PROTOTYP car museum.
But: this G-Class was the hunting car of the then Chairman of the State Council of the GDR, Erich Honecker, who used it privately for hunting in the Schorfheide near Berlin. The car was purchased from Mercedes-Benz via a company operating undercover for the GDR in West Berlin and converted by the West Berlin coachbuilder Rometsch - from the extensive roof conversion to the fitting of gun mounts.
The cost of purchase and conversion: 114,767.32 DM (West)! All Mercedes stars and lettering also had to be removed to disguise the fact that the GDR driver was driving a car belonging to the so-called class enemy.
The car is on loan from the Stiftung Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin and will be on display at the PROTOTYP car museum in Hamburg for several years.
Further information on the exhibition at the Automuseum Prototyp can be found on the website of the Automuseum Prototyp.
