Our contributors are mentioned in alphabetical order despite all other criteria.

Hans Brammer

Hans Brammer lives with his wife and son in Berlin. He works for an international company making projects for electrical equipment in the steel industry. He started early to be interested in UNIMOGs. He grew up in the countryside and was able to watch the UNIMOG in use on the fields. He was also allowed to sit in the passenger seat during the beet harvest. His best-loved toys were therefore the little Wiking UNIMOG model cars.

But then he didn't think for a long time about the subject UNIMOG. It was only at the beginning of the nineties that his interest in UNIMOGs returned. He saw many of the old UNIMOGs he collected in his youth when he went to a model car show. There they were, still much-loved by many people. Before, only a few model car types were available but now there was a huge variety in different UNIMOG model car types and scales. He still collects mostly H0 models. But he doesn't only collect small scale models, he also got a U411 with snow plow to a scale if 1:1. Besides, he loves to travel and sometimes the two hobbies can be combined. You can reach him at his email address Hans.Brammer@t-online.de .

Ralf Maile

Ralf Maile is a well-known person among UNIMOG enthusiasts in part because of his publications ("40 Jahre UNIMOG", "Das Buch vom UNIMOG", "UNIMOG im Einsatz", etc.), and in part because of his phenomenal UNIMOG model car conversions. Since many years he's working on his UNIMOG picture archive that now contains more than 20'000 pictures of UNIMOGs in any situation. This data base gained a lot from his knowledge.

Now the friends of model cars can look forward to pictures of his hand-made conversions of UNIMOG model cars that he allowed us to photograph and publish on the website. On the frontpage of this website there are two of his models shown.

Oliver Porzel

Oliver Porzel lives with his wife and the two daughters Lisa (UCG-Mitglied 2261) and Anna in Steinwiesen, in beautiful Oberfranken. He's a long-standing UNIMOG freak and UCG-Mitglied 1690 and works on the subject UNIMOG as a hobby since many years. He's also a member of the UNIMOG Veterans Club since the year 2000. He has been collecting UNIMOG model cars for many years and owns a big collection. With his knowledge and his specialist connections he helped a lot to put together this database. Since many years now Oliver is setting up a shop with model cars for his fellow collectors. We helped him a little bit with our knowledge to put togetherhis website. You can reach him via his email mail@unimog-porzel.de

Josef und Josef Steiner

Josef Steiner sen. started early with his UNIMOG experiences when his father taught him to drive a 411 UNIMOG in the forests of Bavaria. It looks like the enthusiasm for UNIMOGs is genetic because his son, Josef jun., is also a big UNIMOG enthusiast. Both are members of the UNIMOG Club Gaggenau (Josef sen. as UCG member 2485, Josef jun. as UCG member 2876) and of the "UNIMOG- und MBtrac-Freunde Niederbayern e.V.".

If his wife Anneliese and daughter Christina wouldn't intervene from tine to time, their passion for collecting would start to give cause for concern. His private website tells about his love for the UNIMOG. He can be reached under the following email address Josef.Steiner@t-online.de .

You?!

Yes, you can also be a part of this UNIMOG database, for example helping with the construction and maintenance of the model data base or as a moderator of one of the discussion forums. If you have special knowledge of certain models or are an expert in model-making and you would love to be an active part of our group, or if you just want to discuss certain topics with other like-minded UNIMOG people, please get in contact with us! We would love to hear from you!