The history of the Wiesbaden Automobile Club begins with the election of the first board of directors Otto Heinrich Adolf Henkell, Hermann Schmidt and Paul Zink on March 24, 1904. The first sporting activities took place in the same year, when the club was responsible for a control point at the famous "Gordon-Bennet Race" in the Taunus. Among the participants were such well-known names as Ettore Bugatti, Carl and Richard Benz, August Horch and Wilhelm von Opel. The first automobile tournament on 21 and 22 May 1921 consisted of a rally to Wiesbaden and a race on the Opel track in Rüsselsheim. In 1928, the tournament became international for the first time.

The festive balls in the Kurhaus, the automobile exhibition with its beauty contest for the "Golden Ribbon", the hill climb to the Hohe Wurzel and the "Rund um den Neroberg" race (held annually from 1923-33) were outstanding sporting and social events for the city with participants from all over Europe. On the 12.5 km long Neroberg circuit, with 87 bends and considerable differences in altitude, everyone who was anyone in motorsport at the time in Germany and neighboring countries took part. Fully electric timekeeping was also used for the first time. This development was abruptly interrupted in 1934 by the dissolution of the automobile clubs during the Nazi era.

A new beginning was made on May 7, 1948, and the first German endurance test after the Second World War was started in 1951. In the years that followed, the Wiesbaden Rally became a firm fixture in European rallying until it was initially discontinued in 1971. After the reconstruction of the Hockenheimring in 1966, the Wiesbadener Automobilclub started an international circuit race with the Hockenheim Grand Prix. However, as the financial risk of such major events was no longer sustainable for the club, it decided to discontinue these races in 1984. However, the club revived the Wiesbaden Rally in 2011.