Arthur Müller (racing driver)

Arthur Müller (born June 29, 1904 in Rasephas , † July 11, 1983 in Holzminden ) was a German motorcycle racer .

The Thuringian Arthur Müller won in his first season, the German motorcycle road championship . He was successful in such important races as the Eilenriede in Hanover , the Solitude in Stuttgart or the Berlin AVUS . Even abroad he shone with victory in the famous Königsaal – Jilowischt hill climb near Prague .

Career

Müller was born in the Thuringian town of Rasephas, later incorporated into Altenburg . At the age of 21, he won the 3rd Eilenriede race as a junior in 1926 and finished ten minutes earlier than the best senior . This was followed by further victories on the Solitude , in the Dreistädtefahrt near Frankfurt am Main and in the Märkische Herbstfahrt . In his first racing season he was at the end of the German champion of the 175 cm³ class.

The year 1927 began Müller with victory in a 24-hour race on the Opel racetrack together with Hans Sprung . A week later he won the Prague race on Jíloviště . At the Lückendorfer hill climb and Freiburg he was also ahead on the mountain and he also won a victory at the AVUS in September. On July 2, 1927, the German Grand Prix took place on the Nürburgring , which was also the European Championship that year . Arthur Müller finished third in the 14-lap run of the 175 cm³ class behind Willi Henkelmann ( DKW ARe 175 ), Pforzheim's Arthur Geiss , 13 minutes behind, making the DKW triple victory perfect .

Then Arthur Müller started for the Chemnitz-based manufacturer Schüttoff .

In 1930 Arthur Müller changed from Schüttoff back to DKW. On the Eilenriede he made his new debut with a second place behind Josef Klein in the 350s. Podiums followed on the Fichtenhain racecourse and on the Grillenburger Sachsenring in 1932. A year later, Arthur Müller had no penalty points in the Reichsfahrt , East Prussia and the three-day drive in the Harz Mountains . At the end of the season he was only barely defeated by the German champion Arthur Geiss on the Marienberger Dreieck . In 1934 he was there again on the podium behind Walfried Winkler and Geiss. He finished second in the Eifel race on the Nürburgring and at the German Mountain Prize at Schauinsland near Freiburg. Müller won gold medals in the winter motor vehicle test and the three-day Harz drive. In 1935 he was narrowly beaten again in Marienberg, this time by Hans Winkler . In mid-July, Arthur Müller demonstrated his great ability again at the German Grand Prix on the Badberg-Viereck in Hohenstein-Ernstthal - in his tenth season as a racing driver.

Müller died on July 11, 1984 at the age of 79 in Holzminden.

statistics

title

• 1926 - German 175 cc champion on DKW

Race wins

year	class	machine	run	route
1926	175 cm³ (juniors)	DKW	Eilenriederennen	Eilenriede
	175 cc	DKW	All about Solitude	Solitude
1927	175 cc	DKW	AVUS race	AVUS
	175 cc	DKW	Mountain race Königsaal – Jilowischt	King's Hall - Jilovisht

literature

• Steffen Ottinger: DKW motorcycle sport 1920–1939 . From the first victories of the Zschopau two-stroke model at track races to the European championship successes. 1st edition. HB-Werbung und Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Chemnitz 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-028611-7 , p. 27-72, 114-121 .