Rally for a good cause

people who the Sterneninsel want to support, have great ideas! There have never been any traveling Santa Clauses.

In the beginning it is just a single Santa Claus standing with his Vespa at the Hilda-Gymnasium. His name is Albert Grassl and he is waiting for the rest of the Pforzheim Vespa Club. The club, which was founded in 1950 as one of the first of its kind in Germany, is on its way to St. Nicholas' Day for the first time this year. However, the money is not collected for the club, but for the children and youth hospice service Sterneninsel.

Grassl himself could not take part in the entire journey. "I've come straight from work," he says, pulling a coat, beard, belt and hat out of his suitcase. And: “It just wasn't worth going home again, so I came straight here. It's a good campaign for children.” Only the belt is a bit too tight over a motorcycle suit, sweater and coat. But he can quickly lengthen it with a rope. Then it's time to wait.

A good quarter of an hour later you can hear the rest of the rally coming, rattling down Luisenstrasse and turning onto Kiehnlestrasse at the north police station. The machines are festively decorated: numerous fairy lights and individual reindeer antlers adorn the machines. After the squadron has gathered briefly at the Hilda-Gymnasium, it goes a few meters down Poststraße to the side entrance of the Turm Quartier. One of the numerous donations received by the star drivers on St. Nicholas Day will be handed over there.

"Unfortunately, we can't go to every donor. That's not possible because of Corona," says Benjamin Götze, while the engines around him are already being started again. Then the group drives on again, after all there are three more stations to be visited.

Source: Pforzheim newspaper