Obituaries
Max von Zimmermann
The Pacific Northwest lost respected horseman Max von Zimmermann on May 14 after a sudden stroke and a fight with cancer. He was 73.
Mr. von Zimmermann was born in Germany and immigrated to Canada in 1954. He began his career as a horse trainer at the Maple Ridge Equestrian Center in Haney, B.C. He also managed and trained at The Trails in Olympia, Wash., and opened his own facility in Yakima, Wash., where he spent 25 years breeding and training hunter/jumper and eventing champions.
Mr. von Zimmermann is remembered as a true gentleman and a horseman with an exceptional eye for a horse. Horses he raised or trained included Ghost Story, Maori Legend, Egan Way, Deception Pass, Hold The Thought, Paper Tiger, Try More and Pride Of Arn.
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Mr. von Zimmermann is survived by his daughter Mary, a hunter/jumper trainer in Portland, Ore., and his son Max, an R-rated jumper judge in Washington. Memorial contributions in Mr. von Zimmerman’s name can be made to the Oregon Hunter Jumper Association Scholarship Fund, c/o Janna Brown, P.O. Box 40386, Portland, OR 97240. Staff
Egon von Neindorff
German riding master Egon von Neindorff died on May 20 at age 80 in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Born in 1923 in Doeblin/Saxony as a son of a military officer, he began to devote his life to horses and equestrian sports at a young age. In the years immediately after World War II, he was one of the most successful German dressage riders, and he organized the first international horse shows in Germany after the war. In 1949 he founded at Karlsruhe, in the south of Germany, a riding and show barn, where his mission was to cultivate, preserve and promote the classical art of equitation and horsemanship up to the “high school,” or airs above the ground. His “Reitinstitut” (Riding Institute), which hosted up to 60 school horses, became famous worldwide for its high level of education and its numerous displays. The riding there could only be compared with the Spanish Riding School at Vienna or the Real Escuela Andaluza del Arte Ecuestre at Jerez, Spain. But the difference is that the “Reitinstitut Egon von Neindorff” is privately operated and open to all pupils. For his contributions to horse sports and the preservation of the classical art of riding, the German Equestrian Federation awarded to Mr. von Neindorff its “German Riding Cross in Gold” in 1985. He also received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. B.P
