Kurt Friedrich (racing driver)

Kurt Friedrich (born December 19, 1901 in Chemnitz ; † August 30, 1995 there ) was a German motorcycle racer .

Kurt Friedrich began motorcycle racing after the end of the First World War . In 1922 he took part in the first motorcycle races on the Berlin AVUS . In the 1920s, Kurt Friedrich won several "Grand Prix" at home and abroad and also won the German Road Motorbike Championship .

Career

When the motorcycle competitions started at the Berlin AVUS in June 1922, Friedrich drove a DKW . Two weeks later he was on the podium after the races at the Rüsselsheim Opel racetrack . He achieved excellent results in the early imperial and multi-day trips. His first major victories came in 1926 within a few weeks. First he won with the DKW ARe 175 at the end of June on the Marienberger Dreieck , then at the swimming pool race in Kołobrzeg, now Poland, and finally at the German Grand Prix at the AVUS .

Abroad, Kurt Friedrich won the Austrian Grand Prix in 1927 and the Hungarian Tourist Trophy in 1928 and 1929 in the 175 class. In 1929 he won the German motorcycle championship in the quarter liter category after victories in Marienberg , on the Stuttgart Solitude and on the Schleizer Dreieck . After these successes, however, Friedrich ended his career.

Friedrich is buried in a Chemnitz suburb cemetery.

statistics

title

• 1929 - German 250 cm³ champion on DKW

Race wins

year	class	machine	run	route
1926	175 cc	DKW	Marienberg triangle race	Marienberg triangle
	175 cc	DKW	Kolberger bath race	Kolberg
	175 cc	DKW	Grand Prix of Germany	AVUS
1927	175 cc	DKW	Grand Prix of Austria	Vösendorf
1928	175 cc	DKW	Hungarian TT	Budapest
1929	175 cc	DKW	Hungarian TT	Budapest
	250 cc	DKW	Marienberg triangle race	Marienberg triangle
	250 cc	DKW	Solitude racing	Solitude
	250 cc	DKW	Schleizer triangle race	Schleizer triangle

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. 15-47, 59, 115 .