Ernst Jakob Henne

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Ernst Jakob Henne 1983
Henne (in the background) together with his racing driver colleagues Paul Köppen , Toni Bauhofer and Ecker (from left to right) 1930
Motorcyclist Monument (1939) by Max Esser in Berlin. Ernst Henne in a BMW, in the background the Berlin radio tower

Ernst Jakob Henne , called "Schneller Henne" (born February 22, 1904 in Weiler im Allgäu ; † May 22, 2005 in Gran Canaria , Spain ) was a German motorcycle and automobile racing driver and entrepreneur .

Life

Ernst Jakob Henne was the fourth child of the master saddler Jakob Henne. Orphaned at the age of five, he grew up with a farming family. In 1919, Henne began an apprenticeship as a car mechanic and earned with 15 years in Ravensburg the motorcycle - driving license . Four years later, he started his own business as a two-wheel mechanic in Munich and, together with his wife, built the motorcycle and automobile workshop into a large company with over 500 employees. In the same year (1923) he spontaneously decided to take part while visiting a dirt track race in Mühldorf am Inn and took third place on a rented Megola machine. He won his first race as the fastest of the day on June 28, 1925 at the Burrenwald hill climb on a 350 Astra . After further racing successes, BMW became aware of Henne and hired him as a works driver in 1926. In the years that followed, Henne was one of the most successful German motorcycle racers on and off-road. Among other things, he was German champion in the 500 cm³ class in 1926 , German champion in the 750 cm³ class in 1927 and winner of the Targa Florio Motociclistica in Sicily in 1928 .

From 1933 to 1935 Ernst Jakob Henne was a member of the German team in the international six-day race . Together with his teammates Josef Stelzer , Wiggerl Kraus and Josef Mauermayer and Sepp Müller , he won the trophy three times.

From 1934 Henne also drove automobile races, initially for Mercedes , from 1935 for BMW. In 1936 he won the sports car class up to 2 liters at the Eifel race at the Nürburgring with the prototype of the BMW 328 and in 1937 in Chimay and Bucharest . From 1929 Ernst Jakob Henne attempted numerous motorcycle world record attempts for BMW. He set his first official world speed record on a BMW WR 750 on September 19, 1929 at 216.75 km / h over the mile with a flying start. Between 1929 and 1937, a total of 76 world speed records followed, the last being on November 28, 1937 with 279.5 km / h on a fully encased BMW 500 supercharger . This best performance was only surpassed by Wilhelm Herz 14 years later, in April 1951 . After this last record, Henne retired from active motorsport .

Henne was one of the most successful motorcycle athletes in motorsport history and in the 1930s was mentioned in the same breath as sports stars such as Max Schmeling , Gottfried von Cramm , Rudolf Harbig or the motor sportsmen Rudolf Caracciola , Manfred von Brauchitsch and Bernd Rosemeyer .

In Meckenbeuren, Ernst Henne helped three innocent citizens of the community to be released from Gestapo detention.

After the end of the Second World War , Ernst Hennes's company became the “major representative of Daimler Benz AG” in Munich from 1948 and thus one of the largest vehicle dealers in Germany. In 1991 he founded the Ernst Jakob Henne Foundation with a considerable part of his fortune to support people in need through no fault of their own.

In 1996 he retired. His son Ernst Theodor Henne (since 1987 fifth husband of the entrepreneur and Aga-Khan mother-in-law Renate Thyssen-Henne ) sold the Auto-Henne company to DaimlerChrysler AG in 1997 as one of the last independent general agencies in Germany .

Henne last lived in seclusion on Gran Canaria and died on May 22, 2005 at the age of 101.

statistics

Motorcycling

title
Race wins
year class machine run route
1926 500 cc BMW Eifel tour around Nideggen
500 cc BMW All about the Solitude Solitude
1927 750 cc BMW Kolberger bath race Kolberg
1928 500 cc BMW Targa Florio Motociclistica Medio circuito delle Madonie

Automobile sport

Pre-war grands prix results
season team dare 1 2 3 4th 5 6th
1934 Nazi stateNazi state Mercedes Benz Mercedes-Benz W 25 Flag of Monaco.svg Flag of France.svg Flag of Germany (1933–1935) .svg Flag of Belgium (civil) .svg Flag of Italy (1861-1946) .svg Flag of the Second Spanish Republic.svg
DNS DNS DNF DNS
Legend
colour meaning EM points
gold victory 1
silver 2nd place 2
bronze 3rd place 3
green Classified, covered more than 75% of the race distance 4th
blue not entitled to points, covered between 50% and 75% of the race distance 5
violet not eligible for points, covered between 25% and 50% of the race distance 6th
red not eligible for points, covered less than 25% of the race distance 7th
colour abbreviation meaning EM points
black DSQ disqualified 8th
White DNS did not start
DNA did not arrive
other P / bold Pole position
SR / italic Fastest race lap
DNF Race not finished (did not finish)

Awards

A street in his birthplace Weiler im Allgäu and Meckenbeuren was named after him.

See also

literature

  • Steffen Ottinger: Around Zschopau. The story of an off-road motorcycle ride . tape 1 . Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft Marienberg, Marienberg 2004, ISBN 3-931770-49-4 , p. 8, 13 .
  • Steffen Ottinger: Around Zschopau. The story of an off-road motorcycle ride . tape 2 . HB-Werbung und Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Chemnitz 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-036705-2 , p. 12 ff .
  • Steffen Ottinger: International Six Day Trip 2012. The story since 1913 . HB-Werbung und Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Chemnitz 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-039566-6 , p. 17-28 .
  • Ernst hen . Pictures from the life of the world record holder. In: BMW (ed.): BMW sheets . 100,000 circulation. No. 16 . Klasing & Co. GmbH , Berlin February 1933, p. 30 ( PDF [accessed on March 24, 2018] in-house communications from Bayerische Motoren-Werke AG).
  • Wolfgang Ebner: At seventy you still have dreams - Ernst Henne for his 70th birthday . In: Automobile and Motorcycle Chronicle . Schrader and Partners, November 1973, p. 28-29.35 .

Web links

Commons : Ernst Jakob Henne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Our story. In: Chronicle. Daimler AG, archived from the original on February 22, 2014 ; Retrieved February 9, 2014 .
  2. Uli Wagner: Ernst Jakob Henne: A legend turns 90 . In: ACM-ECHO. January 1994.