Max Nathan

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Max Nathan 1953

Max Nathan (born July 9, 1919 , † September 2, 1960 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German racing driver .

Career

His first race, the ADAC Deutschlandfahrt, he contested in 1950 in a Ford Taunus in the touring car class up to 1200 cc. In 1952, at the 22nd Monte Carlo Rally with Heinz Schellhaas, he achieved 2nd place in a Volkswagen S4 in the class up to 1100 cc. He finished the Paris-Lisbon rally in May 1952 in the class up to 1100 cc in first place with a Porsche 356 Coupé b4. On August 3, 1952, Nathan won the class up to 1500 cc on the Nürburgring in a Porsche. In the following years he took part in the Tulip Rally (1952), Rallye des Alpes (1952, 1953, 1954), Midnight Sun Rally Sweden 1954 , Mille Miglia , ( 1954 , 1955 , 1956 ), Rallye Monte Carlo 1955 , 24-hour Le Mans ( 1953 , 1956 ) and Grand Prix Spa (1957) races.

On August 18, 1954, Max Nathan / Helm Glöckler took part in the Liège-Rome-Liège rally with the Glöckler Porsche No. 7, its only race.

In his most successful year, 1956, Nathan won the German rally championship. In the same year he celebrated successes in the races at the Solitude , Nürburgring , Wiesbaden , AVUS and the Wintersternfahrt.

On February 27, 1957, Max Nathan was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf as the German automobile champion on production sports cars.

In September 1960, Max Nathan died in a traffic accident at the age of 41.

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate placement Failure reason
1956 Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Porsche KG Porsche 356 Carrera 1500 Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Glöckler helmet failure Car fire after collision

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season team race car 1 2 3 4th 5 6th
1954 Porsche 356 ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM FranceFrance LEM United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT MexicoMexico CAP
34
1955 Porsche 356 ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM FranceFrance LEM United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT ItalyItaly TAR
72
1956 Max Nathan Porsche 356 ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM GermanyGermany ONLY SwedenSweden KRI
22nd 9

Web links

Commons : Max Nathan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World Sports Racing Prototypes. WSRP, accessed September 8, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Sports report of the federal government. (PDF) German Bundestag , September 26, 1973, accessed on September 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel 38/1960
personal data
SURNAME Nathan, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH July 9, 1919
DATE OF DEATH 2nd September 1960
Place of death Frankfurt am Main