Notes:
On Sunday, 30 August 1936, German sidecar pilot Albert Schneider became the first victim at the Freiburg-Schauinsland hillclimb. He lost control of his NSU machine when its front tyre came off, and crashed against the rocks at the Geißhübel-Kurve. Schneider, who received heavy head injuries, was killed; he passed away just one week after his 36th birthday.

Albert Schneider's passenger Wilhelm Colle suffered a fractured leg in the crash. They were in the entry list of the event, in the 600 cm³ sidecar class, and also in the 1000 cm³ class. It is unknown whether the accident which claimed Schneider's life occurred while riding the NSU 600 #123, or the NSU 1000 machine #138. Albert Schneider was reported to be from Düsseldorf, Germany; it is not clear whether this was his place of birth or of residence. The place of birth indicated on this page has not yet been confirmed.

Three months before Albert Schneider's death, another German sidecar pilot by the same family name, Hans Schneider lost his life during the Internationales Solitude Rennen, on 17 May 1936. They were not related.

In consequence of Albert Schneider’s death, which was one in a series of sidecar fatalities which occurred in Germany in the mid-1930s, including Hans Schneider and Josef Handelshauser at the Solitude in Stuttgart, Toni Babl at the Nürburgring, Josef Lohner at the Hannover-Eilenriede and Karl Braun on the Schleizer Dreieck, the motorsport authority Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps banned sidecar racing in the country. Even the Solitude, Schleizer Dreieck and Feldberg races were suspended. Only after the end of World War II sidecar racing was resumed in Germany.

The Freiburg - Schauinsland was a special race course located near Freiburg im Breisgau in the South of the beautiful Black Forest in the German Land of Baden-Württemberg. The road was originally built in the years 1924-1925 purposedly as a race track, closed to regular traffic, to host car and motorcycle hillclimb races, which were very popular at the time. The track climbed some 800 meters from the little village of Günterstal to the Schauinsland pass in the town of Oberried and reached an altitude of 1,204 meters above sea level at the finish line, after a 12-kilometer course, that was reduced to 11.2 in 1960 and to 11.0 and 8.6 respectively in 1982 and 1984.

Since the Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club had the order as national federation, to organize all the Bergrekords which were held there, the race was named ADAC-Bergrekord, although through the years the hillclimb was sometimes officially called Großer Bergpreis von Deutschland or ADAC-Bergpreis; at a point about half of the distance, named "Holzschlägermatte", it was erected a buiding which looked from there down in the valley, bearing the words "ADAC-Bergrekord" in big white letters on its front; nowadays the letters are no more visible, but the building is still there and the Government has prohibited to demolish it, as a national monument.

The track ceased operations in 1984 and it's now an important traffic route through the Black Forest.

• Book "Die großen Automobil- und Motorradrennen - Fichtenhain-Rennbahn 1925 - 1932: Aufstieg und Fall einer Sportstätte in Heide" by Ernst Peters, Pro Business, 2013, ISBN 978-3863865962.
• Book "Hockenheimring", by E. Christ, K. Buchter and W. Herz, page 110 [B1].
• Newspaper Wuppertaler General Anzeiger (Wuppertal, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany), issue of Monday, 31 August 1936 [B2].
• Website Wikipedia, article "Freiburg im Breisgau", page http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freiburg_im_Breisgau .
• Website Wikipedia, article "Baden-Württemberg", page http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg .
• E-mail by Hans-Hugo Boecker, dated 15 July 2005, citing [B1].
• E-mail by Helmut Ritter, dated 22 September 2005.
• E-mail by Helmut Ritter, dated 23 September 2005.
• E-mail by Hans-Hugo Boecker, dated 25 September 2005.
• E-mail by Hans-Hugo Boecker, dated 25 January 2006, citing [B2].
• E-mail by Hans-Hugo Boecker, dated 15 February 2010.
• E-mail by Stefan Toppel, dated 10 November 2020.