Walter Glöckler

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Liège – Rome – Liège 1937, the victorious Hanomag team Karl Häberle / Walter Glökler on arrival at the casino in Spa with their Hanomag Sturm Type 23 K

Walter Glöckler (born December 15, 1908 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 4, 1988 ) was a German automobile and motorcycle racing driver and automobile designer .

Career

Walter Glöckler started the opening race at the Nürburgring in 1927 with a 250 cc NSU and won. He was only 19 years old. 1936 he won on a 1500 cm³- Hanomag in field mountain-Berg price in the class of the sports car without compressor to 1500 cc displacement .

After the Second World War , Walter Glöckler won the Schauinsland hill climb in 1949 on a Hanomag self -made . When Glöckler won the sports car class up to 1100 cc on October 2, 1950 at the Großer Feldberg im Taunus on a self-built VW , he was already certain of the German championship title in this category.

Between 1948 and 1954, Walter Glöckler and Hermann Ramelow designed seven different racing cars , mostly based on Porsche . Three drivers became German sports car champions with a 1100 cm³ Glöckler Porsche : 1950 Walter Glöckler himself, 1951 Hermann Kathrein and 1952 Heinz Brendel . Walter Glöckler won the Schauinsland hill climb in 1951 with a 1500 cm³ Porsche in-house design and was again German sports car champion. Walter Glöckler constructions were also sold in the USA .

In September 1951 Walter Glöckler, Petermax Müller from Hanover , Huschke von Hanstein , Hermann Ramelow and Richard von Frankenberg set a 72-hour world record (11,000 km, average 152.35 km / h) with the 1500 cc Glöckler Porsche . In 1953, Glöckler and Ramelow designed a 1,100 cc Porsche roadster for racing driver Richard Trenkel , with which Trenkel promptly won the 1953 German sports car championship.

Walter Glöckler's cousin Helm was also German racing champion in the 1500 cc category in 1949 and 1952 (in another improved Walter Glöckler Porsche construction) and in 1955, together with Wolfgang Seidel, in a Glöckler Porsche Spyder Mille Miglia winner. Sister Erna Glöckler won the 10,000 km trip through Europe in a Dixi - BMW in 1931 . Her brother Helm went as a companion. Feldberg she won in 1927 on the mountain section of the High Mark in the Taunus for Sandplacken second place in the class up to 1500 cc in a NSU Touring Car .

But not only Walter Glöckler, his cousin Helm and his sister Erna were successful motorsport drivers, their fathers were already too. Father Otto Glöckler won on Feldberg in 1921 with an NSU automobile (9 tax horsepower ) and Wilhelm Glöckler , father of Helm, won the 750 cm³ motorcycle class that same year and repeated the victory in 1926 on a 750 Norton .

Walter Glöckler died in 1988 at the age of 79.

statistics

successes

  • 1950 German sports car champion in the class up to 1100 cm³ in a Glöckler-Porsche
  • 1951 German sports car champion in the class up to 1500 cm³ in a Glöckler-Porsche

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personal data
SURNAME Glöckler, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German automobile and motorcycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH 4th January 1988