Willi Krakau

Willi Krakow ( born December 4, 1911 in Schoeneck, † April 26, 1995 in Peine ) was a German racing driver.

His first race went Krakow with a BMW 328 at the 1937 Eifel Race on the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring. After the war, he was the first in 1947 at Hockenheim at the start. Located before the driver legend Karl Kling in the race, his car caught fire and he had to retire. As the first German rider after the war Krakow took part in an official race in Italy, the Gran Premio di Monza dell'Autodromo 1950, the Federal flag waved for him as the first German athletes in addition to the colors of the other nations on the honor mast. In 1952, he was reported for the Grand Prix of Germany, was in training but not achieve full timed lap and therefore does not participate in the race.

Willi Krakow, who was also a promising oarsman at a young age, belonged in 1936 to the German Olympic rowing team. Besides, he was an avid boxer and skier. He won the biggest surprise of the experts as " flatlanders " a 50 -km cross-country skiing in the Erzgebirge against most competition from all over Germany. 1934 Krakow became instructors of the former Queen Friederike of Greece.

After the end of his racing career Krakow devoted to mountaineering and underwater sports with diving equipment and spear.

In addition to his active sporting activities Krakow was a member of the former Supreme National Sports Authority and a member of the Sports Committee of the main ADAC in Munich.

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