Hermann Gablenz

Hermann Gablenz (born July 27, 1913 in Weingarten , † July 30, 2000 in Karlsruhe ) was a German motorcycle racer .

In 1937, Hermann Gablenz achieved his first podium places among licensed drivers at well-known events as a private driver. A year later he achieved several victories and took third place in the overall ranking of the European motorcycle championship .

Career

Hermann Gablenz comes from the Baden vineyard.

After victories on DKW in the ID card driver class since spring 1937, he was able to achieve fourth place among the licensed drivers at the Nürburgring in mid-June. At the Great Mountain Prize of Germany as part of the Schauinsland race in Freiburg im Breisgau  - Gablenz was already living in nearby Karlsruhe - he came third in the 250cc class. At the end of the season, he repeated this placement at the Marienberger Dreieckrennen .

At the start of the 1938 season, Hermann Gablenz came third in the Eilenriederennen in Hanover . In the AVUS race, he moved up one place. A few weeks later he was also on the podium at the European championship run for the Belgian Grand Prix in Spa-Francorchamps . Immediately after winning in Amriswil , Switzerland , he achieved further successes in the races for the Nuremberg Prize , Rund um Schotten and the Nürburgring. With a third place at the Dutch TT in Assen , Gablenz was able to take this position in the overall ranking of the European motorcycle championship in 1938 , behind Ewald Kluge and Bernhard Petruschke .

In the following season, the private driver once again achieved podium places in the Viennese high road race and in Schotten.

Even after the Second World War , Hermann Gablenz was still successful. In 1947 he was German master in the field on a 250 cm³ DKW. In 1950 he won the German road championship in the class up to 250 cm³ on an Italian Parilla . In 1952 Gablenz competed on Horex at the Solitude in Stuttgart in the 250cc race for the German Grand Prix , which was part of the motorcycle world championship . He finished third behind Rudi Felgenheier (DKW) and Hein Thorn Prikker ( Moto Guzzi ) and finished tenth in the overall World Championship ranking.

Hermann Gablenz died in Karlsruhe in 2000 at the age of 87.

statistics

title

• 1950 - German 250 cc champion on Parilla

Race wins

year	class	machine	run	route
1938	250 cc	DKW	All about bulkheads	Schottenring
	250 cc	DKW	Eifel Grand Prix	Nürburgring - Nordschleife
1947	250 cc	DKW	Hamburg city park race	Hamburg city park
1949	250 cc	DKW	May cup race	Hockenheimring
	250 cc	DKW	Dieburger triangle race	Dieburger triangle
	250 cc	DKW	Hamburg city park race	Hamburg city park
1950	250 cc	Parilla	Sachsenring race	Sachsenring
1951	250 cc	Parilla	Eilenriederennen	Eilenriede
	250 cc	Parilla	All about bulkheads	Schottenring

References

literature

• Steffen Ottinger: DKW motorcycle sport 1920–1939 . From the first victories of the Zschopau two-stroke model at track races to the European championship successes. 1st edition. HB-Werbung und Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Chemnitz 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-028611-7 , p. 86-115 .

Web links

• Hermann Gablenz on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (English).