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.
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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
^ 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 .