OUR STORY

THE FOUNDING OF THE HELLS ANGELS MOTORCYCLE CLUB 

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On March 17th 1948 the first Hells Angels Motorcycle Club was founded in the Fontana/San Bernardino area in the United States of America.

About the same time, other clubs were formed in various places in the state of California, but none of theses clubs were associated with Hells Angels. Most of them do not exist today but the Berdoo charter (San Bernardino) still do.

During the fifties more Hells Angels Charters came into existence. In the beginning the different charters had nothing to do with each other, but after few years they united and a regular criteria of admission was laid down. From having been exclusively a Californian phenomenon, the club developed internationally in 1961. It happened when the first charter outside California was adopted - strangely enough- as far away as Auckland, New Zealand. 

During the sixties Hells Angels spread out to the East Coast of the USA and later to the Midwest.

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On July the 30th 1969 the first European Hells Angels charter was accepted in London, England. Today there are more than 275 charters in Europe alone. 

At the end of the Seventies, Australian clubs were admitted and in the 1984, Rio de Janeiro,Brazil become the first South American charter. In 1993, Hells Angels came to the African continent with a charter in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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The Hells Angels Motorcycle Club World has charters in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Australia, Africa and Asia.

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