Ernst Klodwig

**Ernst Klodwig**
Nation:	German Democratic Republic
Automobile world championship
First start:	1952 German Grand Prix
Last start:	1953 German Grand Prix
Constructors
	1952–1953 Ernst Klodwig (BMW rear self-made)
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Ernst Klodwig (born May 23, 1903 in Aschersleben , † April 15, 1973 in Hamburg ) was a German automobile racing driver .

Career

In the early 1950s, Ernst Klodwig was one of the best racing drivers in the GDR alongside Paul Greifzu , Rudolf Krause and Edgar Barth . With his Formula 2 - BMW -Eigenbau he came regularly to the national race in the top three. In 1952 and 1953 he took part in the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring in his self-made BMW . This made him the second driver, after Harry Schell, to compete in a race for the automobile world championship with a mid-engine racing car. In both Formula 2 races , he finished in midfield.

Ernst Klodwig lived in East Berlin in the early 1950s . He ended his driving career at the end of the 1954 season and settled in West Germany , where he died in Hamburg in 1973.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1952	Ernst Klodwig	Rear BMW	BMW 2.0 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1953	Ernst Klodwig	Rear BMW	BMW 2.0 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				2	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	6th	7th
1952
1952	12
1953
1953		15th

Legend
colour	abbreviation	meaning
gold	-	victory
silver	-	2nd place
bronze	-	3rd place
green	-	Placement in the points
blue	-	Classified outside the point ranks
violet	DNF	Race not finished (did not finish)
violet	NC	not classified
red	DNQ	did not qualify
red	DNPQ	failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify)
black	DSQ	disqualified
White	DNS	not at the start (did not start)
White	WD	withdrawn
Light Blue	PO	only participated in the training (practiced only)
Light Blue	TD	Friday test driver
without	DNP	did not participate in the training (did not practice)
	INJ	injured or sick
	EX	excluded
	DNA	did not arrive
	C.	Race canceled
		no participation in the World Cup
other	^P / bold	Pole position
	_SR / italic	Fastest race lap
	*	not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

literature

David Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 116.
Haraldträger, Wolfgang Wirth, Stefan Geyler: Motorsport in the GDR. Automobile and motorcycle racing from 1949 until the fall of the Berlin Wall , GeraMond, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-86245-730-4

Web links

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

Ernst Klodwig at Motorsport Magazine

Individual evidence

↑ Forix - website: The BMW-derived specials did Appeared in war-struck Germany. From: 8w.forix.com , accessed April 2, 2013 .
^ Motorsport archive - website: Ernst Klodwig. (No longer available online.) At: www.motorsportarchiv.de , archived from the original on August 9, 2011 ; Retrieved April 2, 2013 .

personal data
SURNAME	Klodwig, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German automobile racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH	May 23, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aschersleben
DATE OF DEATH	April 15, 1973
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Forix - website: The BMW-derived specials did Appeared in war-struck Germany. From: 8w.forix.com , accessed April 2, 2013 .

[2] Motorsport archive - website: Ernst Klodwig. (No longer available online.) At: www.motorsportarchiv.de , archived from the original on August 9, 2011 ; Retrieved April 2, 2013 .