Charly Jellen
Charles "Charly" Jellen (* 1909 in Znojmo , Austria-Hungary ; † May 7, 1934 in Munich ) was an Austrian racing driver and entrepreneur.
Life
After his birth, Jellen lived in Graz for a few years before he emigrated to Munich in 1932 and opened a car dealership there. His racing career began with participating in various hill climbs in Austria, Czechoslovakia , France , Germany , Hungary , Italy , Romania and Switzerland . In 1932 he won the race at Prebichl twice. In 1933 he won the Hohnstein hill climb. His first racing cars were Bugatti , later he drove an Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza together with Paul Pietsch in the team.
On the circuit , Jellen was able to achieve a remarkable fifth place at the International AVUS Race in 1933 , due to the fact that he started from pole position , which at that time was not the fastest in training but was drawn. However, this should be his only finish at an official Grand Prix .
Deadly accident
On May 7, 1934, Jellen tested his Alfa Romeo for the upcoming AVUS race on Reichsautobahn 9 between Munich and Ingolstadt - the section on which Ernst Jakob Henne set numerous world records on a BMW . At the turning point in Neuherberg, he lost control of the car and rolled over. The 25-year-old died a little later in the Schwabing Clinic of a fractured skull and internal injuries.
Private
From 1933 Jellen lived with the then 22-year-old Ilse Engel, whom he met a year earlier at an airfield race and who at the time was still married to a Frankfurt businessman. After a few months, however, she began a relationship with Jellen's teammate and friend Paul Pietsch, whom she soon married but left for Achille Varzi .
Web links
- Charly Jellen www.technischesmuseum.at
Individual evidence
- ^ Motorsportmemorial.org: Charly Jellen
- ^ Alfred Neubauer “Men, Women and Motors” (first edition 1958, Motorbuch Verlag)
- ↑ motorbloeckchen.com: men, women, Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza # 2111046 and an unwritten letter
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jellen, Charly |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jellen, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian racing driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Znojmo |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1934 |
| Place of death | Munich |