Rudolf Hasse
German racing driver
Intro | German racing driver | |
Places | Germany | |
was | Soldier Racecar driver | |
Work field | Military Sports | |
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Birth | 30 May 1906, Mittweida | |
Death | 12 August 1942Makiivka (aged 36 years) |
Rudolf Hasse (30 May 1906 – 12 August 1942) was a famous German racing driver. He won the 1937 Belgian Grand Prix.
Hasse was born in Mittweida, Saxony, and died while serving on the Russian front during World War II in a military hospital in Makiivka, Ukraine, from shigellosis aged only 36. In the 1930s he was a member of the National Socialist Motor Corps.