Hans Ruesch was a Swiss racing driver, a novelist, and an internationally prominent activist against animal experiments and vivisection.
15 Facts About Hans Ruesch
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Hans Ruesch was born in Naples to an Italian-speaking Swiss mother and a German-speaking Swiss father.
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Hans Ruesch lived the first 14 years of his life in Naples, where his father was a textile industrialist and a specialist in Pompeian Art.
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Hans Ruesch then studied law at the University of Zurich but dropped out in 1932 to join the racing circuit.
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Hans Ruesch married Maria Luisa de la Feld in 1949.
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Hans Ruesch died of cancer at his home in Lugano, Switzerland.
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Hans Ruesch is survived by his daughter, Vivian Ruesch Mellon of Manhattan, his sons, Hans Jr.
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Hans Ruesch began racing in 1932 with MG at the Klausenrennen when he was 19.
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Hans Ruesch drove a Maserati 8CM 1934 and a Maserati 4CS in 1935 and 1936, followed by an Alfa Romeo GP car in 1936 and 1937.
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Hans Ruesch took part in the 1937 South Africa series.
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Hans Ruesch competed in more than 100 races in Europe and South Africa, winning 27 races.
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Hans Ruesch was internationally known as an outspoken advocate against vivisection and other forms of animal testing.
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Hans Ruesch did not believe that medical research could benefit by using such methods.
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Hans Ruesch argued that rabbits, mice, rats and other animals are not anatomically and physiologically similar to humans and drew upon numerous statements from doctors and researchers in support of his stance.
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Some years later, Hans Ruesch wrote a second book criticising vivisection, in English, which was released in the United States, with the title "The Naked Empress, or the Great Medical Fraud".