Friedel Schön

Friedel Schön (born February 7, 1914 in Frankfurt am Main ; † 2005 there ) was a German motorcycle racer .

Career

Schön began his career as a motorcycle racing driver in the early 1930s. In 1933 he won on a 250 cm³ Bücker - JAP at Rund um Schotten .

In 1948 Friedel Schön came back from English captivity and in 1949 he won the May Cup race , the Nürburgring , Rund um Schotten, the Hamburg city park race and the Nuremberg Norisring race with the highest number of points German motorcycle road champion in the 250 cc class and with the same Bücker JAP that he won in Schotten in 1933. The fact that a racing driver won twice on the same machine on the same racetrack within 16 years is likely to be unique in the world.

Friedel Schön was German cement railway master twice, once on a 250 cm³ Bücker JAP and once on a 350 Horex built by Harald Oelerich in 1949/50 . At the Feldberg race in 1950 he was the double winner of the naturally aspirated engine classes up to 125 cm³ on a Vespa, ahead of Willi Thorn , also on a Vespa, and up to 350 cm³ on the Oelerich-Horex. In 1952, Schön was hired by Horex as a works driver . Behind Siegfried Wünsche ( DKW ), he took second place in the 1953 races on the Großer Feldberg im Taunus on a 350 cc single-cylinder Schnell-Horex .

Friedel Schön has won all solo classes in his career: 125, 250, 350 cm³ and as a works driver also two victories on the 500 cm³ Horex-Imperator : 1952 in Hockenheim and at the AVUS race on the AVUS racing track in Berlin . When Horex retired from motorsport in 1954, he also ended his racing career. He later ran a gas station in Frankfurt's Ostend .

Friedel Schön died in 2005 at the age of 91.

statistics

title

• 1949 - German 250 cm³ champion on Bücker - JAP
• 1950 - German 250 cm³ cement railway master on Bücker-JAP
• 1951 - German 350 cm³ cement railway master on Horex

Race wins

year	class	machine	run	route
1933	250 cc	Bucker - JAP	All about bulkheads	Schottenring
1949	250 cc	Bucker JAP	All about bulkheads	Schottenring
1952	500 cc	Horex	May cup race	Hockenheimring
	500 cc	Horex	AVUS race	AVUS

Web links

• If you can do something with it - let me know, Friedel. www.spiegel.de, September 22, 1949, accessed on May 25, 2015 . 
• Hansjörg Meister: Friedel Schön. www.feldbergrennen.de, June 19, 2014, accessed on May 25, 2015 . 
• Friedel Schön: German champion in the class up to 250 ccm on Bücker-Jap. www.norisringhistorie.de, accessed on May 25, 2015 (photo).