History of the Oktoberfest
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Did an Ebersberger have the idea for the very first Wiesn?
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At the beginning of the Wiesn was the horse race, which is undisputed in historical research. But who came up with the idea of the race?
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The Munich Oktoberfest might not even exist without Franz Xaver Greckl, the scion of a local family of innkeepers and brewers. In any case, this is indicated by 200-year-old sources evaluated by the historian and archivist Claudius Stein.
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Merlin Wassermann, Ebersberg
Claudius Stein (43) is a member of the government council at the university archive of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and maintains the archive and the collections of the Ducal Georgianum. Stein descends from the Greckl family on his mother’s side. In the course of his genealogical research, he came across an ancestor, the alleged inventor of the Oktoberfest, who came from Ebersberg.
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