The ADAC is Germany's largest association and, with over 22 million people, has more members than the Catholic Church.
One in four Germans is a member.
With a print run of almost 14 million, the in-house magazine "ADAC-Motorwelt" reaches an audience
that other newspapers and magazines can only dream of.
By way of comparison, the Bild newspaper, Germany's largest newspaper, has a circulation of just over 1 million copies.
Accordingly, the ADAC can shape public opinion and also has great political weight.
Whether one-on-one talks with ministers, round tables with the then Chancellor Angela Merkel, visits from
Chancellor Olaf Scholz - the ADAC has contacts with the really big names in German politics.
Business is also going well at ADAC:
In 2024, it recorded a surplus of € 71 million.
At the beginning of the year, however, there was massive unrest in the steadily expanding automobile club.
Over 60,000 members canceled their membership. What had happened?
ADAC Executive Committee member Gerhard Hillebrand gave an interview on 23.12.2025 in which he
warned against watering down the EU climate targets.
He spoke out in favor of CO2 pricing, although this would make petrol, diesel and heating oil more expensive.
He justified this by saying that people need an incentive to switch to climate-friendly alternatives to petrol and diesel.
However, many ADAC members did not like these statements at all and could not understand why their automobile club was
in favor of measures that would make driving more expensive.
The wave of resignations began on the same day and the outrage on the major internet platforms continued to grow.
Alternatives to the ADAC such as the AvD, ACE, ACV or "Mobil in Deutschland" were in high demand.
ADAC members posted their letters of resignation and called on others to leave.
Here are some examples: - "Yesterday I finally (after 40 years!) terminated my ADAC membership for cause."
- "Member since 1997 - now it's over.
If the ADAC no longer wants to represent the interests of its members, I'm out."
- - "I need my car. What I don't need is a club that throws drivers under the bus. - Bye-bye."
- "The notice is out. And I hope that several more will follow from the approx. 22 million. Never bite the hand that feeds you."
The 60,000 terminations caused the ADAC financial losses of several million euros.
ADAC traffic president Gerhard Hillebrand then pulled the ripcord and resigned.
He expressed his regret that his comments had angered members and cost the ADAC credibility.
This incident shows in an impressive way the weight of the individual when he does not simply get angry
about statements like Hillebrand's, but acts consistently.
Just as the weight of many individual, small snowflakes together can break the branches of a strong tree, the many individuals
who stood up at the ADAC base showed that they could shake the top of this powerful organization with their determined actions.
Now the question arises as to whether the ADAC leadership is really rethinking its position, or
whether Hillebrand's resignation is a pawn sacrifice?
Hillebrand does not appear to be alone on the ADAC executive committee with the ideas he has expressed.
The man at the forefront, ADAC President Christian Reinecke, has already attracted attention with statements that are
more than astonishing for a man who heads an automobile club.
When asked about the street blockades of the "Letzte Generation" climate protest movement in an interview with the Augsburger
Allgemeine Zeitung in 2023, Reinecke had the following to say:
"I can understand the concerns of the climate campaigners.
We should listen to young people, as they are our future.
The climate activists represent goals that everyone can rally behind.
This is because, according to the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court, climate protection
is a national objective enshrined in the Basic Law.
However, I doubt that the climate campaigners are choosing the right means to achieve their legitimate goals."
Whether the goals of the climate campaigners are really as justified as Reinicke claims here can justifiably be doubted.
As already explained in the program "Climate activism" - a mass manipulation of the billionaires , the activists of
the last generation are by no means a grassroots movement.
On the contrary, they are sponsored and led from the very top by NGOs of rich billionaires and
high-level freemasons like George Soros or Aileen Getty.
Furthermore, climate change is by no means as uncontroversial and scientific consensus as it is presented in the mass media.
This has already been explained in detail in the following programs:
www.kla.tv/7297 The birth of the climate lie
www.kla.tv/21792 Anthropogenic climate change in contradiction to the history of the earth and climate
www.kla.tv/27159 Leading climatologists falsify data
www.kla.tv/27736 CO2 - myth of a so-called climate killer refuted
www.kla.tv/27453 97% agreement among scientists on man-made climate change - fact or fake?
www.kla.tv/9408 Climate scientists: Climate change not caused by CO2
The highly questionable statements made by the ADAC leadership are in contrast to parts
of its own statutes as an automobile club.
The following is regulated here:
The "purpose of the ADAC is to safeguard, promote and represent the interests of motoring, motor sport and tourism."
and "The ADAC stands up for the protection of road users.
In particular, it safeguards their interests as consumers."
Increasing fuel prices should hardly be in the interests of motorists.
So what motivates the ADAC leadership to take such a stance instead of using its considerable political clout to
advocate the abolition of climate regulations and the robbing of citizens by means of compulsory CO2 levies?
Could it be that the ADAC leadership has already been infiltrated and is therefore helping to push through the
agenda of the global strategists working in the background?
This may sound unbelievable at first, but Kla.TV employees came across a number of incredible discoveries last year during
a large-scale investigation into the extent to which High Degree Freemasons have infiltrated important organizations.
As a first step, Vetopedia.org was able to reveal 100 organizations that were
founded or taken over by High Grade Freemasons.
Would you have thought that the organizations Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, the Boy Scouts, the YMCA, the WWF, the FSK and
Save the Children, for example, all have links to Freemasonry?
Just like the OECD, UNESCO or the Ecumenical Council of Churches?
Study the world map on Vetopedia.org with the background information linked there to verify these links yourself.
In his presentations "Weltgefahr Hochgradfreimaurerei" and "Welt im Netz der Freimaurer" , Kla.TV founder Ivo Sasek showed that
not only are almost all organizations of global importance, such as the UN, NATO, the EU, the WEF, NASA
and the Fed, in the hands of High Degree Freemasons.
No, almost all US presidents were also Freemasons, as were other influential heads of state such as Joseph Stalin, Mikhail
Gorbachev, Vladimir Putin, Francois Mitterrand, Nicolas Sarkozy, Margret Thatcher, Tony Blair, Helmut Schmidt, Helmut
Kohl, Gerhard Schröder, Angela Merkel, Olaf Scholz, and so on.
Should the Masonic brothers really have given such an influential organization as the ADAC a wide berth?
As the ADAC has not yet been investigated by our research teams, we are unable to provide evidence of this at this point.
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