Christian Kautz
Swiss racing driver
Biography
Lists
Also Viewed
The basics
Quick Facts
| Intro | Swiss racing driver | |
| Places | Switzerland | |
| was | Motorcycle racer Engineer Racecar driver | |
| Work field | Engineering Sports | |
| Gender |
| |
| Birth | 23 November 1913, Brussels | |
| Death | 4 July 1948Bremgarten bei Bern (aged 34 years) |
The details
Biography
Christian Kautz (born 23 November 1913 – died on 4 July 1948) was an auto racing driver from Switzerland.
Son of a Swiss multi-millionaire, his career started with Mercedes-Benz as a junior driver in 1936, then as an Auto Union junior driver in 1938, starting in three Grands Prix. Kautz was a testpilot for Lockheed in the United States during the Second World War. He died at only 34 years of age in a fatal accident in a Maserati at the 1948 Swiss Grand Prix in Bremgarten.