Helmut Hofmann – DoctorsTalents

With the private Museum for Historic Maybach Vehicles, the Neumarkt-based collector couple Anna and Dr. Helmut Hofmann fulfilled a lifelong dream – and in 2009 opened a globally unique collection of these gleaming chrome luxury cars to the public. Around 20 historic Maybach vehicles – one-tenth of the world’s remaining stock – are housed in this attractive museum building. The museum tells the exciting story of the “Maybach myth” and the Maybach-Motorenbau GmbH owned by Wilhelm and Karl Maybach. Just 1,800 of these valuable vehicles were built to order between 1921 and 1941; around 160 remain around the globe – and almost 20 of them are located in Neumarkt. On approximately 2,500 square meters of exhibition space, the precious vehicles can be viewed in a chronologically structured display and in a wide variety of conditions – from sawn-up barn finds to concours classics. No less spectacular is the building complex, which grew out of the historic industrial buildings of a former bicycle and motorcycle factory from the Wilhelminian era, the famous Neumarkt Expresswerke. A small but impressive additional exhibition showcases several exhibits from the history of the Expresswerke.