Otto Daiker

Otto Daiker (born September 17, 1911 in Boll ; † June 13, 1968 ) was a German motorcycle racer .

Career

Otto Daiker was the son of a cattle dealer. After finishing school, he began an apprenticeship as a mechanic in a local company, which he was unable to complete for the time being due to the bankruptcy of the training company. With the help of the then head master of the mechanics' guild in Hechingen , Christian Burkhardt, he later finished his apprenticeship. Burkhardt's son Horst later became vice world champion in the sidecar class alongside the Swiss Fritz Scheidegger .

Daiker began his career on a Rudge in the first half of the 1930s. In 1935 he was third in the Schauinsland hill climb in Freiburg im Breisgau . Always starting as a private driver, Daiker procured a DKW for 1938 , with which he immediately won the Trinity Race in Wachenburg and drew more and more interest from the works teams . The Second World War interrupted his career a year later.

After the war Otto Daiker achieved numerous victories and podium places and came third in the quarter liter class of the German road championship on a 250 cm³ DKW with a supercharger .

In 1951 Otto Daiker and Heiner Dietrich received factory material from NSU . The race on the Great Feldberg in the Taunus they drove the new Lambretta - scooters . Dietrich was third, Daiker fourth. In the other races in 1951, the two started with the NSU Sportfox . The German 125cc championship won Hermann Paul Müller on Mondial , was runner Daiker, Third Dietrich.

In 1952 Otto Daiker won the German championship in the eight-liter class on an NSU Rennfox at the age of 41, ahead of H. P. Müller (Mondial). He had achieved the highest number of points in the Eifel race , on the Feldbergring and in Rund um Schotten . In the 250cc category he was third in the German Championship.

In the 1953 season, Daiker was behind Werner Haas (both NSU) German runner-up in the class up to 125 cm³ and third in the 250 class with equal points with the second. He won the championship runs on the Stuttgart Solitude (250 cm³) and the Berlin AVUS (125 cm³). Otto Daiker also competed in the motorcycle world championship in 1953 . He competed at the German and Swiss Grand Prix and the Ulster Grand Prix in Northern Ireland . The best result was third behind Carlo Ubbiali ( MV Agusta ) and team-mate Haas in the eight-liter race for the German Grand Prix at the Schottenring . At the end of 1953 Otto Daiker ended his career.

After his racing career, Daiker was employed in various positions at Aral until his untimely death in 1968 . Otto Daiker died on June 13, 1968 at the age of 57. According to his wish, he was buried in Hechingen. The grave site no longer exists today.

statistics

title

• 1952 - German 125 cc champion on NSU

Race wins

year	class	machine	run	route
1949	250 cc	DKW	International Solitude Race	Solitude
1951	125 cc	NSU	Dieburger triangle race	Dieburger triangle race
	125 cc	NSU	Grenzlandring races	Grenzlandring
1952	125 cc	NSU	All about bulkheads	Schottenring
	125 cc	NSU	Feldberg race	Feldbergring
1953	250 cc	NSU	International Solitude Race	Solitude
	125 cc	NSU	AVUS race	AVUS

In the motorcycle world championship

season	class	motorcycle	run	Victories	Podiums	Points	Result
1953	250 cc	NSU	2	-	1	7th	6th
	250 cc	NSU	3	-	-	6th	9.
total			5	-	1	13

References

Web links

• Otto Daiker on the official website of the Motorcycle World Championship (English).
• Hansjörg Meister: Feldbergrennen 1952. www.feldbergrennen.de, June 25, 2013, accessed on June 10, 2014 . 
• Rolf Eggersdorfer: Otto Daiker. www.eggersdorfer.info, accessed on June 10, 2014 . 
• Otto Daiker. www.motorsportstatistik.com, accessed on June 10, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MOTORCYCLE CHAMPIONSHIP - Can't count for much. www.spiegel.de, September 10, 1952, accessed on June 10, 2014 .