Arthur Rosenhammer

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arthur Rosenhammer
Arthur Rosenhammer in a 1500 cm³ EMW (1954)

Arthur Rosenhammer (born January 7, 1910 in Dessau , † August 9, 1985 in Linz am Rhein ) was a German racing driver.

Life

Arthur Rosenhammer grew up in Dessau and was already active as a racing driver in the 1930s. Rosenhammer drove his first races after the Second World War for MSG Dessau on an ARO Veritas BMW self-made. He was co-founder in 1950 of the testing and inspection office of DAMW in Berlin-Johannisthal settled state racing collective in which he was first technical director and until April 1952 as successor of the end of 1951 Ernst ring had the overall lead. In 1952 he secured the GDR championship title with three victories in races in Halle, Bernau and on the Sachsenring with his racing car built by the DAMW racing collective on the basis of a BMW 328 . With the racing collective, which was now affiliated to the Vehicle Construction Industry Association , Rosenhammer moved to Eisenach in 1953 to join the Eisenacher Motorenwerke , where the EMW / AWE racing collective constructed racing vehicles until 1956 and used them successfully in races. In 1954 Rosenhammer achieved a world speed record over 10 miles with an AWE 1.5-liter racing car with an average speed of 229.5 km / h. Together with Paul Thiel , Rosenhammer achieved third place behind two Porsche 550 Spyders at the AVUS near Berlin in 1955, just 3 seconds behind . In 1958 he was a founding member of the Dessau Motorsport Club (MC Dessau). After the end of the AWE racing collective, Rosenhammer left the GDR in August 1959 and moved to West Germany.

statistics

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season team race car 1 2 3 4th 5
1956 VEB AWE R3 / 55 ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM GermanyGermany ONLY SwedenSweden KRI
7th
1960 Werner Lindermann Porsche 356 ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM
DNF

literature

  • Arthur Rosenhammer and Günter Grassmann: Motorsport-Almanach 1953. Sportverlag Berlin (GDR), 1953
  • Arthur Rosenhammer and Günter Graßmann: The new motorsport yearbook. Sportverlag Berlin (GDR), 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957

Web links

Commons : Arthur Rosenhammer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Ihling : Auto racing in the GDR: 90 years of racing cars and motor sports, Delius Klasing Verlag , Bielefeld, October 2006, ISBN 978-3-7688-5788-8 , page 96 et seq.
  2. ↑ Horst Ihling : Auto racing in the GDR: 90 years of racing cars and motor sports, Delius Klasing Verlag, Bielefeld, October 2006, ISBN 978-3-7688-5788-8 , page 103
  3. ↑ Arthur Rosenhammer set a world record on EMW. In: Automotive Technology. 2/1955, p. 61.
personal data
SURNAME Rosenhammer, Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH January 7, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Dessau
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1985
Place of death Linz on the Rhine