Ines Wedge-Folville

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Ines Keil-Folville (born August 15, 1885 in Frankfurt am Main as Katharina Burkhart ; † August 25, 1980 there ) was one of the first women to contest car races. She achieved success on vehicles from Steiger , Horch and Mercedes and was considered an "exceptional female talent".

Family and origin

Katharina Burkhart was born on August 15, 1885 in the Alte Gasse in Frankfurt. She grew up in the Westend in Frankfurt , where she lived on Schubertstrasse and most recently at Mendelssonstrasse 80. Ines Keil-Folville had three siblings. Her first marriage was with the Belgian engineer Maurice Folville. After the divorce, she married Hans Keil. She carried on the name of her first husband in the double name Keil-Folville and changed her first name to Ines. From this marriage a daughter was born.

Career

The beginnings of her racing career go back to the year 1899. At the age of 14 she took part for the first time in a cycle race on a high bike through the Frankfurt Palmengarten . As an 18-year-old, she used her brother's motorcycle. In 1907 she followed her husband, the automotive engineer Folville, to Brussels. With him she learned to drive as well as to drive.

Ines Keil-Folville was the first woman to make racing her profession. She was the only lady to take part in the 24-hour race in the Taunus. In the twenties, after the First World War , she was considered the star of the Frankfurt Automobile Club. She won a 24-hour race four times on various European racetracks. Her male competitors were Merk, Hans Stuck and Rudolf Caracciola , to whom she was friendly. She earned special respect during a race in Baden-Baden in 1924, when, despite her dislocated right arm, she steered her red Horch racing car through the finish line with her left hand.

She took second place in the sports car class behind Carl Iron ( Adler ) at the Feldberg race in Taunus in 1922 with her 2500 cc Steiger , and in 1926 she was second again, this time in the racing car class up to 1100 cc behind Hans von Meister, both in a French Amilcar .

She celebrated her last award ceremony in Roermond in Holland in 1928 , also after a 24-hour race, where she was cheered by the crowd.

In addition to her racing career, she ran a sales agency for Steiger automobiles in Frankfurt until 1926.

Commitment to the city of Frankfurt

She lived with her daughter in Frankfurt am Main until her death in August 1980. She was committed to the city and received the DRK's golden badge of honor in 1955 .

literature

  • Holger Rühl: The automobile races in the Taunus 1904-1926. Societäts-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3797308817 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.feldbergrennen.de/kurzbiographien.htm. In: www.feldbergrennen.de/kurzbiographien. Retrieved August 4, 2016 .
  2. ↑ hansjoerg meister: feldberg - mountain price for automobiles. In: www.feldbergrennen.de. Retrieved August 4, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Wedge-Folville, Ines
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burkhart, Katharina (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1980
Place of death Frankfurt am Main