Otto Kohfink

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Otto Kohfink (born June 27, 1907 in Bietigheim-Bissingen , † 1994 ) was a German motorcycle racer .

Otto Kohfink from Bietigheim won the quarter-liter run at the Rund um Solitude race in Stuttgart in 1930 on Montgomery - JAP . Later he was a works driver at Imperia in Bad Godesberg . In 1933 he became German cement railroad master in 250 cm³ UT and in 1934 in Imperia together with Erwin Schumacher German mountain master in the sidecar class. In 1937 he won in the 250cc category at the Circuit Vaudois in Swiss Lausanne .

In the 1938 season , Kohfink took part in the European motorcycle championship in the 250 cm³ class on a DKW and finished eighth overall with six points. The best result was the position ahead of his fellow countrymen and brand colleagues Ewald Kluge , Bernhard Petruschke and Karl Lottes at the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring in Hohenstein-Ernstthal . Kohfink also scored points at the Swiss Grand Prix at the Circuit des Nations in Geneva and at the Dutch TT at the Circuit van Drenthe in Assen .

After the Second World War , Otto Kohfink won the Hockenheim anniversary race on the Hockenheimring in 1948 on a 250cc DKW . In October 1950 he had a serious fall during the Feldberg race on the Großer Feldberg im Taunus in the Rotens Kreuz section and had to be taken to the hospital in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe . This fall meant the end of Kohfink's career at the age of 43. In 1952, as a result of the accident, his left arm had to be amputated , and Kohfink suffered permanent phantom pain as a result .

In 1951 Otto Kohfink founded a bicycle shop in the Bietigheim district of Sand on Friedrich-Ebert-Straße . Later belonged Aral - gas station and a Ford -Representation the company. From 1967 he was a Renault dealer, in 1987 he passed the business on to his son. Otto Kohfink died in 1994.

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. 39-84, 98-108, 118 .

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SURNAME Kohfink, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German motorcycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Bietigheim-Bissingen , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 1994