History of the Stuttgart Hells Angels

The Stuttgart charter of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club was founded on December 4, 1981.
It originated from the Hammers Of Hell MC Stuttgart. This MC only had this one charter and had been existing for about 10 years. The average Hammers Of Hell members at the time were fairly young and most of them were mechanics and toolmakers. In this club even then a Harley-Davidson was standard. 1978 the Hammers Of Hell MC officially stepped up to the Hamburg Hells Angels. They had been in contact for a while already. This was followed by several visits to Hamburg: Back then still on ridgid frames with Flathead, Panhead and Shovelhead engines. Starting point in Hamburg was the famous Angel Place in the Schanzenstrasse (street in Hamburg). From there they regularly went to parties to the Baltic Sea. Also visits to the Hells Angels in Switzerland, Austria and the rest of Europe were pending.
On September 29, 1980 the Stuttgart charter became prospects of the Hells Angels MC and from now on they proudly were wearing the red and white MC Germany bottom rocker!
On December 4, 1981 finally the time had come! On a spontanious arranged camp at the Welzheimer Wald (forest about 25 miles northeast of Stuttgart) the second German and worldwide 50. charter of the brotherhood of the Hells Angels was voted in! With a memorable party, that lasted several days, a new chapter in the lifes of the Stuttgart Hells Angels had begun.

History of the Hells Angels

On March 17th 1948 the first Hells Angels Motorcycle Club was founded in the Fontana/San Bernardino area in the United States of America. About the same time, other clubs were formed in various places in the state of California, but none of these clubs were associated with Hells Angels nor with each other. Most of them do not exist today, but the Berdoo charter (San Bernadino) still do.

During the fifties more Hells Angels Charters came into existence. In the beginning the different charters had nothing to do with each other, but after some years they united and a regular criteria of admission was laid down. From having been exclusively a Californian phenomenon, the club developed internationally in 1961. It happened when the first charter outside California was adopted – strangely enough – as far away as Auckland, New Zealand. During the sixties Hells Angels spread out to the East Coast of the USA and later to the Midwest.

On July the 30th 1969 the first European Hells Angels charter was accepted in London, England. Today there are more than 250 charters in Europe alone. At the end of the Seventies, Australian clubs were admitted and in 1984, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil became the first South American charter. In 1993, Hells Angels came to the African continent with a charter in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eastern Europe got its own Hells Angels charter in the new millennium and since then many more countries have been granted the now famous winged Death Head.

Today the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club has spread its wings all over the World. From Alaska and Norway in the high North, to South Africa and Argentina in the southern hemisphere. All around the globe from the Caribbean Islands to Turkey,  who became the first Muslim country to join the club in 2009.

The admission of clubs from all over the globe caused changes in the structure of the Hells Angels. The small motorcycle club from Berdoo was now Mother Charter to the world´s biggest motorcycle brotherhood, the HELLS ANGELS MOTORCYCLE CLUB WORLD. Today Hells Angels MC World has charters in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Australia, Africa and Asia.