The 2025 National Tour will take place Feb 7-19th. HHSA can announce our assessors for the 2025 Tour are: Dr Ludwig Christmann (GER) and Meg Williams (USA).
Meg Williams is a lifelong horsewoman and has been an active member of the AHS (American Hanoverian Society) since 1986. She was appointed to the Mare and Stallion Committee in 2006 and holds numerous positions within the AHS/ARS organization. She has made numerous trips to Germany to increase her knowledge including completing the Breed Orientation Course and attending European Young Horse Championships. She has also undergone an intensive training process, including time in Germany with Hanoverian Verband officials. Meg owns and operates Oakwood Farms in Lawrenceburg, IN where she breeds, trains, and stands two Elite Hanoverian Stallions, Widmark and Fabregas. Oakwood Farm’s current broodmare band represents the most respected Hanoverian bloodlines available and the farm’s breeding program is consistently evaluated in order to produce foals with correct conformation and high rideability. This is evidenced by having numerous Hartwig Memorial Award winners, Bari von Buedingen Memorial Trophy winners, and Gold Medal Foals. Meg has trained multiple horses to the FEI levels in dressage and has earned her USDF Bronze, Silver, and Gold medals, in addition to many USDF and AHS Year-End Awards. She currently competes Elite Stallion Fabregas in dressage.
The HHSA feels incredibly privileged to welcome back Dr. Ludwig Christmann as one of our assessors for the 2025 Annual Tour. Dr. Christmann is one of the world’s most respected and knowledgeable Hanoverian representatives.
Ludwig Christmann, a graduate of the Universities of Giessen and Goettingen, began his employment with the Hanoveraner Verband in 1984. Since then he has worked for the Hannoveraner Verband and has been a spokesperson for the society for 37 years.
First he worked as deputy breeding director, and later on he headed the department “Breeding International”. He was the worldwide ambassador of the Hanoverian breeding society – one of the largest in the world. An esteemed breeding expert, he has travelled the world for many years being a sought-after speaker and inspector at foal and mare gradings, studbook inspections, and at mare performance tests.
Dr. Christmann has been influential in the development and progress of the Hanoverian breed in Australia and NZ over several decades, bringing his wealth of knowledge to members and breeders during the national tours and through webinars.
He retired from the Verband in 2021, at that time he was also awarded with the Golden Badge of Honour of the Hannoveraner Verband and the Gustav Rau Medal in Bronze by the German Equestrian Federation.
If you would like to participate in the Tour, please get your foal registrations and mare forms completed online. We are in the planning stages now and if we don’t have the paperwork we cannot include you in the tour with our team of amazing international assessors. The deadline for submissions for the Tour is Jan 28th 2025.
Tentative Date/Locations for the 2025 Tour:
6.-10.2. QLD
7.-9.2. NSW
10.-13.2. VIC
12.2. SA
17.-18.2. WA
The deadline for entries for the 2025 Tour is Jan 28th. All entry paperwork and payments must be finalised by that date.
Please contact registrar@hanoverian.org.au with any registration or Tour questions.