Ernst Hiller
Ernst Hiller ( born November 19, 1928 in Gütersloh, † 27 February 2008) was a German motorcycle racer.
In his career he was six German motorcycle road champion in the 500cc class and was due to his profession, also known as " the fastest driving instructor in Germany".
Career
Ernst Hiller worked in the experimental department of Rabeneick and so was the early 1950s, the opportunity to participate in grass track racing, road racing and reliability trials. Between 1951 and 1953 he started to Duerkopp and Rabeneick mainly in grass track racing. His first road race Hiller denied on June 22, 1952, the Port of Kiel course. He launched it on a 250 cc NSU OSL homemade motorcycle license driver Hans Joachim block and could win the race from the start.
1953 Ernst Hiller walked beside NSU also on one of the legendary 350cc - Boy Racer machines from AJS as identification rider at the start. From 1954, he held the status of the driver's license. After 1955 piloted a 500 cc Matchless G45, Hiller came in 1956 on a BMW 500 RS. Already in the first race on the new machine at the Leipzig city park race Gütersloher celebrated the first victory. In the Dutch TT in the same year he made his debut with the sixth place in the Motorcycle World Championship. Until 1961 he took sporadically, mostly in part at the races in the Netherlands and West Germany, in World Championship races. His best World Cup placing reached Hiller in 1958, when he finished seventh in the 500 cc World Championship with eight points.
In the German Cup Ernst Hiller was in the second half of the 1950s the most successful BMW privateer. 1957, 1958 and 1959, he secured with his royal wave BMW each title in the 500 cc class. In 1960, followed by a heavy crash in Imola, Italy, in which Hiller a fraction of the spine drew upon, the sale of BMW. In the German 500cc Championship Gütersloher occupied Matchless G50 on the second place. After another 500 - DM- 1962 titles, this time back to BMW, Hiller finished his playing career for the time being.
In 1970 Ernst Hiller after seven years of abstinence for the first time to race in part after a Kawasaki H1R offered by Detlev Louis and get the bike had finally bought. In the following years he was with his son Reinhard on the road, who was also active motorcycle racers. With the three-cylinder two -stroke, he started back in the 500cc class of the German Cup and secured his fifth title at once. According to the vice - championship in 1971 Hiller won in 1972, now 43 years old, on the Kawasaki his sixth and last DM title. Also in the Motorcycle World Championship Gütersloher went back to the start. At the Grand Prize of the GDR in 1971, he was on the Kawasaki at the Sachsenring with place behind Giacomo Agostini (MV Agusta ) and the New Zealander Keith Turner ( Suzuki) celebrate his first podium finish. 1973 succeeded Hiller on King at his home Grand Prix at the Hockenheimring in turn the third rank. By the sixth son of Reinhard during this run won for the first time in the history of the motorcycle world championship father and son in a points race.
Ernst Hiller launched until 1977 in national and international races, starting from 1976 he worked as a coach at the international driving course better go with BMW at the Nurburgring. From 1998 until his death in 2008, he participated in numerous veterans races and Classic demo rides. To date, Ernst Hiller one of the few German driver, get the podium in the premier class of motorcycle racing.
Sources and links
- Articles on Hiller's death in eggersdorfer.info
- Ernst Hiller on the official website of the MotoGP World Championship ( English).
- Motorcycle racer ( Germany )
- German master ( Motorcycle Racing )
- Born in 1928
- Died in 2008
- Man
- German