Hans Fischer (racing driver)

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Hans Fischer (born December 12, 1936 in Chemnitz , † September 2008 in Gelenau ) was a German motorcycle racer .

During his career he won the GDR championship in motorcycle off-road racing several times , and was successful in the International Six-Day Rides and the International Austrian Alpine Tour. He also achieved success in motorcycle road racing at home and abroad.

Athletic career

Since 1955, Hans Fischer was successful in off-road motorcycle racing - later called enduro racing . At the age of 18 he became district champion in Karl Marx-Städter , won a gold medal at the GDR championships and was there at the premiere of the motorcycle off-road ride “Around Zschopau”. A year later he won the 125 cm³ class in Zschopau and, after victories in Suhl and Berlin, became GDR champion . In 1957 he took part in the international six-day race and won one of the first two gold medals with an MZ ES 250 that a GDR driver ever brought back from the international six-day race . After another success with “Around Zschopau”, he was also GDR champion in the quarter-liter class . After gold at the Erfurt Four Day Tour and the International Austrian Alpine Tour, he won a gold medal again at the Six Days in 1958.

Then Hans Fischer switched to road racing. In 1959 he was on the Sachsenring third and finished in Finnish Tampere second place. At Rund um Zschopau in October, he achieved the fastest test time and was not only class winner in the 250cc class, but also the overall winner of the two-day drive. A year later he achieved his first victories on the road in the 125 cc class at the Finnish Grand Prix in Helsinki, the Yugoslavian Grand Prix in Opatija and at the Hockenheimring . At the world championship run for the GDR Grand Prix at the Sachsenring in 1962 , he was third in the eight-liter category behind Luigi Taveri and Jim Redman . In June 1963, Fischer fell in a mass collision in Opatija and was injured for a long time. In 1965 he returned to the site again. At Rund um Zschopau he won another gold medal and was third in class. This ended his motorsport career.

References

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. 18-51, 158 .
  • 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. 20, 72 .
  • 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. 39 ff .

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personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German enduro athlete
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH September 2008
Place of death Exactly