Willy Pöge

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Master of Saxony on the high wheel 1889 Willi Pöge
Willy Pöge in a Mercedes before the Semmering race (1907)
Pöge on the Herkomer trip in 1906

Friedrich Elias Willibald "Willy" Pöge (born December 2, 1869 in Chemnitz ; † May 12, 1914 ; partly also Willi Pöge) was a German entrepreneur, horse, cyclist and motor sportsman.

Life

Willy Pöge's father was the entrepreneur Hermann Pöge (1840–1894). With him he was a guest student at A. Weinhold in the winter semester of 1886/87 in the subject of electrical engineering . Then he studied until 1890 at the Royal Trade School Chemnitz, the forerunner of today's TU Chemnitz .

After the death of his father, Willy Pöge and the engineer Heinrich Goetz took over the management of his company and on January 11, 1897 converted it into the Elektricitäts-Aktiengesellschaft formerly Hermann Pöge . In the following year the company moved to Altchemnitz in today's Paul-Gruner-Straße, where it was connected to the railway. Production was expanded to include direct current dynamos , three-phase motors and generators and transformers .

Willy Pöge founded branches in Berlin , Dortmund , Dresden , Leipzig , Düsseldorf , Hamburg and Frankfurt am Main . He exported to France , Greece , the Netherlands , Romania , Russia and overseas.

Pöge achieved international fame in automobile racing . While doing military service, he rode obstacle races. He took part in Chemnitz cycling events, was Saxony champion in 1889 and the third best high cyclist in Germany. From 1902 he dedicated himself to automobile racing, first in a French car and from 1903 as a gentleman driver in a Mercedes . In 1908 he formed the Mercedes works team at the French Grand Prix with Christian Friedrich Lautenschlager and Otto Salzer . Lautenschlager won, Pöge finished fifth on the 140 hp . The highlight was the victory in the Kaiser-Nikolaus-Touring trip in 1910.

After Willy Pöge's death, the company was taken over by AEG in 1930 and affiliated with Sachsenwerke Niedersedlitz .

literature

  • From the Herkomer trip. Willy Poege. Chemnitz at the start of the speed competition in Forstenrieder Park , in: Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung , vol. 16 (1907), issue 24, p. 416
  • Jochen Haeusler : A role model for Häkkinen. From technology to racing ace: Willy Pöge (1869-1914) , in: TU-Spektrum. Magazine of the Chemnitz University of Technology , Issue 4, Chemnitz: Chemnitz University of Technology, 2000, ISSN 0946-1817, p. 31

Web links

Commons : Willy Pöge  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1908 Grands Prix. (No longer available online.) Www.teamdan.com, archived from the original on January 24, 2019 ; accessed on February 13, 2020 (English).
  2. ↑ Reckless men in their great boxes at stern.de, accessed on June 7, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Pöge, Willy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pöge, Friedrich Elias Willibald (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, horse, cyclist and motor sportsman
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Chemnitz
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1914