Rudolf Heydel

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An Auto Union Type C similar to the accident car.
The Monza slope in its 1936 variant.

Karl Rudolf Heydel (born November 22, 1912 in Leipzig , † February 4, 1936 in Monza , Italy ) was a German automobile racing driver .

Career

Heydel worked in the testing department of the Zwickauer Horch -Werke as a test driver and was protégé of the Auto-Union - works driver and mountain king Hans Stuck . In November 1935, he was in the year, on the Nordschleife of Nürburgring held scholarship courses of the Auto Union racing department Race Director Karl Otto Feuereissen together with Ernst von Delius and Rudolf Hasse selected the company in 1936 in addition to-budgetary works drivers Bernd Rosemeyer and Hans Stuck in the To represent the European Grand Prix Championship . Heydel achieved the fastest lap time of all the drivers on this course.

In February 1936, the three new pilots had test drives on the nearly seven-kilometer high-speed railway in Monza, Italy . On the morning of February 4th, Stuck drove a Type C warm. Heydel took over the car and started his first drive. On his third lap, the inexperienced pilot lost control of his car while approaching the Curva del Vialone , at the beginning of today's Ascari variant , and crashed into the lane. Maybe he was blinded by the sun. Fuel leaked from the impact and immediately ignited and set the vehicle on fire. Heydel was dead on the spot.

His grave is on the Leipzig Südfriedhof in the XX. Department.

References

literature

  • Eberhard Reuss: Hitler's racing battles . The silver arrows under the swastika. 1st edition. Aufbau-Verlag GmbH, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-351-02625-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Reuss (2006), p. 269
personal data
SURNAME Heydel, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heydel, Karl Rudolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German automobile racing driver
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1936
Place of death Monza