20's & 30's: Austrian drivers

Can anyone help me with information (short biography, results) about five Austrian drivers and one German, who raced in twenties and thirties.

Austrian:
Hubert Sachsel
Walter Wustrow
H. Muschik
H. Ostermuth (von Tschaikoff)
Emil Frankl

German:
Charly Jellen

Thank you in advance
Andrzej

Emil Frankl is mentioned on Leif Snellman's page: http://www.kolumbus....snellman/d3.htm

I quote:

Emil Frankl (A)
- 3 Jun 1934
Austrian driver Frankl started in the Eifel GP 1934 with an Bugatti. Sadly he was involved in a start crash and succumbed to his injures.

1934: DNF Eifel GP

Sheldon records what seems to have been Wustrow's last International (non-)appearance in the 1937 Prix de Berne. He entered a Bugatti T37A - DNA.

A nicely obscure list, Andrzej. Jellen was fairly well known internationally, but none of the others achieved very much.
My first reference to Emil Frankl is in the 21/9/29 Ecce Homo hillclimb (Czechoslovakia) where he drove a Steyr and made second-FTD to Stuck (Austro-Daimler). In 1931 he contested local Austrian events (no results known to me) with a Bugatti 37A, and also raced in the international voiturette events at Avus 2/8 (unplaced) and Brno 27/9 (fourth). I have no reference to him after that until the 1934 Eifelrennen when, again driving a Bugatti, he crashed fatally.
His brother Oskar Frankl had raced a BMW without success in the 1930 Masaryk voiturette race. I think either or both of them were ex-motorcyclists.
Hans Muschik was fourth in the 7/6/31 Lwow sportscar race with a 1500cc Bugatti, and reappears in 1935, when he was fourth in the 2-litre class of the 4/8 Grossglockner hillclimb, and won his class in the Dreihotter hillclimb.
The only mention I have found of Ostermuth (I have it Ostenuth) is in the 1930 Masarykuv Okruh, in which he drove an Amilcar to seventh place.
Hubert Sachsel won the 1500 class in the 15/9/29 Semmering hillclimb at the wheel of a Bugatti and under the name of "Bripery". He also raced in the 7/6/31 Lwow Grand Prix, car unknown, but crashed. In 1935 he was second in the 2-litre class at Grossglockner at the wheel of a Bugatti.
In another class of that same event Walter von Wustrow was fourth with an MG sportscar. With the same car the previous year he had been second in the 1100 sportscar class at Klausen.
The name of Charlie Jellen first appears in the 1930 Gaisberg hillclimb when, at the age of 21, he drove a Bugatti T40. The following year he won the 3-litre sportscar class of the Zbraslav-Jiloviste hillclimb with a Bugatti 35B, and was successful in German hillclimbs with that car and, apparently, a 35C as well. He also raced in that year’s Lwow GP but crashed.
With the 35B in 1932 he was third fastest overall in the La Turbie hillclimb and fourth in the Lückendorf event. Running usually in sportscar trim he won his class at Gaisberg, Freiburg-Schauinsland and Hohenstein and was second at Klausen and Mont Ventoux. Most of these were important events and Jellen was competing against some very good drivers.
For 1933 he bought a Monza Alfa Romeo, racing it in the 2/7 Marne GP at Rheims (unplaced) and the Nice GP (seventh). On the hills he won the sportscar class in the Riesengebirge event and was second in the same class at Würgau, where he was also second overall, a placing he repeated at Ratisbona. He was second sportscar at Semmering on 24/9 but crashed fatally at Forstenrieder Park

Originally posted by David McKinney
.....The only mention I have found of Ostermuth (I have it Ostenuth) is in the 1930 Masarykuv Okruh, in which he drove an Amilcar to seventh place....

David,
According to A-Z Motorwelt 1930, No. 29/30, which reported about this race, H. Ostermuth von Tschaikoff, from the town of Weidling (1.1-liter 6-cyl. Amilcar) was taking part in the 1.5-liter class race, which ran simultaneously with the big cars of Nuvolari, Caracciola, von Morgen and others. In the 1.5 class, Ostermuth had fallen back to seventh after three laps, ninth after 12 laps and at the end Ostermuth was flagged off, having completed only 16 laps of 17 required. He also had exceeded his time limit, which allowed the 1.5-liter cars 45 minutes time to complete the distance after the winner had passed the finish. The 750 cc cars were given 60 minutes time. There was no separate time given for 1100 cc cars. Ostermuth had his Amilcar also entered for the 1931 Masaryk Circuit Race but did not show up in the 1.5-liter class, which saw 20 entries but only 11 starters.

Thanks for the confirmation that I had the name wrong, Hans, and for the additional race detail

Thanks guys

Until now there existed no abstract about Charley Jellen. During investigation of this subject, I stumbled across bits and pieces of nonsense, about his death ditto. I hope that the enormous amount of time spent for this exercise was worth the effort.

The lanky Charles (“Charley”) Jellen was born 1909 in Znaim, Czechoslovakia and later lived for many years in Graz, Austria. After 1932 he moved to München, Bavaria, where he started a car dealership. Despite living in Germany, he was still considered an Austrian driver.

The name of this young, dashing driver appeared first in the records during 1930. Over the next three years, he achieved many class wins with Bugatti, primarily at mountain races in Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania and Switzerland. As of 1933, he banded together with Paul Pietsch and formed the Team Pietsch-Jellen. Each had a 2.3-liter Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 Monza, which were later bored to 2.6-liter. They entered together many mountain races and while Pietsch started in the racing class with fenders removed, Jellen entered the sports car class and thereby both often won at the same day. His many class victories at mountain races made him well known. As upcoming private driver he often raced against stronger opposition, drivers with factory support or straight factory entries.

The well liked Charly Jellen, still at the beginning of his racing career, was only 25 when he died on May 7, 1934 during a test drive with his Alfa Monza on the Ingolstadt highway, north of München. In the turn Neuherberge, on the well-known world record stretch used by Ernst Henne with his BMW, the car left the road and flipped over. Jellen received a scull fracture and other serious injuries. He was brought immediately to the Schwabing hospital, north in München, where he soon succumbed to his severe injuries. He had planned to enter the upcoming Avusrennen with his friend Paul Pietsch during May.

• Charley Jellen’s racing record -probably still incomplete-
• 1930 – Aug 30, Gaisberg-Climb: Bugatti T40?: 1st in 1500 cc touring car class
• 1930 – Sep 21, Svab Mountain Climb: Bugatti T37: 1st in 1500 cc sports car class, 4th overall sports car
• 1930 – Sep.29, Feleac Mountain Climb: Bugatti T37: 1st in 1500 cc sports car class, 5th overall sports car
• 1931 – May 31, Zbraslav-Jiloviste: Bugatti T35B: 1st in 3000 cc sports car class, 3rd overall sports car
• 1931 – Jun 7, Lwow GP: Bugatti T35B: DNF (crashed) Would someone please supply results here?
• 1932 – Mar 24, La Turbie: Bugatti T35B: 3rd in racing car class Will somebody please supply his time?
• 1932 – May 22, Prebichl Mountain Climb: Bugatti T35B: 1st in racing class, FTD.
• 1932 – Jun 12, Kesselberg Climb: Bugatti T35B: 1st 3000 cc sports car class, 3rd overall sports car
• 1932 – Jun 26, Lückendorf Mt. Climb: Bugatti T35B: 1st 3000 cc sports car class, 2nd overall sports car
• 1932 – Jul 24, Gaisberg Climb: Bugatti T35B: 1st in 3000 cc sports car class, 2nd overall sports car
• 1932 – Aug 7, Klausenrennen: Bugatti T35B: 1st in 3000 cc sports car class, 3rd overall sports car
• 1932 – Aug 21, A.D.A.C.-Bergrekord (Freiburg) : 1st in 3000 cc sports car class, 5th overall sports car
• 1932 – Aug 28, Stelvio Mountain Climb: Bugatti T35B: 1st in 3000 cc sports car class, 2nd overall sports car
• 1932 – Sep 4, Mont Ventoux Climb: Bugatti T35B: Would someone please supply his result & source?
• 1932 – Sep 18, Hohnstein Mt. Climb (Saxony) : 1st in 3000 cc sports car class
• 1933 – May 21, Avusrennen: Alfa Romeo Monza: 5th
• 1933 – May 28, Eifelrennen: Alfa Romeo Monza: DNF
• 1933 – Jun 18, Kesselberg Climb: Alfa Romeo Monza: 1st in 3000 cc sports car class, 2nd overall sports car
• 1933 – Jul 2, Marne Grand Prix: Alfa Romeo Monza: DNF (mechanical) completed 2 of 50 laps.
• 1933 – Jul 16, A.D.A.C.-Bergrekord (Freiburg) : Alfa Romeo Monza: 1st in 3000 cc sports car class, 2nd overall sports car
• 1933 – Jul 30, Sudeten Mt. Climb (Riesengebirgsrennen) : Alfa Monza: 1st in 3000 cc sports car class, 1st overall sports car
• 1933 – Aug 6, Nice Grand Prix: Alfa Romeo Monza: DNF (fuel pipe)
• 1933 – Aug 20, Würgau Mt. Climb (Nürnberg) : Alfa Romeo Monza: 1st in 3000 cc sports car class, 2nd overall sports car
• 1933 – Sep 3, Ratisbona Mt. Climb (Kehlheim) : Alfa Romeo Monza: 1st in 3000 cc sports car class, 2nd fastest car
• 1933 – Sep 24, Semmering Mt. Climb: Alfa Romeo Monza: 2nd in 3000 cc sports car class, 2nd overall sports car

Originally posted by Hans Etzrodt
Until now there existed no abstract about Charley Jellen. During investigation of this subject, I stumbled across bits and pieces of nonsense, about his death ditto. I hope that the enormous amount of time spent for this exercise was worth the effort.

Oh, I think so...

Great stuff!

4/9/32 Mont Ventoux:
2nd in 2001-3000cc sports class in 18m 04.4s (against class winner Sommer's 17m 26.4s in his Alfa). Jellen's time was 12th fastest overall (Sommer's tenth)

- Mont Ventoux, 75 ans de sports mécaniques 1902-1976 by Maurice Louche 1984. No ISBN, no publisher mentioned (!) but a note that the book comes avec la collaboration de l'Automobile-Club Vauclusien

Hans, thank you very much.

1931 – Jun 7, Lwow GP: Bugatti T35B: DNF (crashed) Would someone please supply results here?

Please:

Miedzynarodowe Okrezne Wyscigi Automobilowe o Nagrode m. Lwowa
(International Circuit Automobile Race for the Prize of the City Lwow)

Lwow, 7 June1931
Lap distance: 3,041 km
Race distance: 50 laps = 152,050 km

Race:
1. Hans Stuck #1 (Austria, Mercedes-Benz SSK) 1:56.45,950 = 78,131 km/h
2. Max Hardegg #2 (Austria, Bugatti 35C) 1:58.56,465
3. Stanislaw Holuj #4 (Poland, Bugatti 37A) 2:09.45,365
4. Adolf Szczyzycki #7 (Czechoslovakia, Wikow 7/28) 48 laps

Fastest lap: Hans Stuck 2.10,4 = 83,954 km/h

Retirements:
Jan Ripper #6 (Poland, Bugatti 35B) 1 lap - accident
Hubert Sachsel #5 (Austria, Bugatti 35C) 2 laps - accident
Charley Jellen #3 (Germany, Bugatti 35B) 2 laps - accident (hit the sand bags on Zyblikiewicza street)

Leads:
1: Hardegg
2-50: Stuck

Originally posted by anjakub
.....Hubert Sachsel
Walter Wustrow
H. Muschik.....

Andrzej,
Do you have anything to make searches easier on these three names (years, events, results)?



David and Andrzej, thanks for the information.
This leaves my question in regards to the 1932 – Mar 24, La Turbie Race. Will somebody please supply the time of the first three cars?

Originally posted by Hans Etzrodt
Andrzej,
Do you have anything to make searches easier on these three names (years, events, results)?

Hans,
I am interested in years 1930-1933 (events, results, cars - of course without GP Lwow). And I am looking for forename mr Ostermuth.

Only to explain: Lands of Czech Crown (Czechia, Moravia ans Silezia) was part of Austo-Ungarian Impery until 1918. Then merged with Slovakia to be Czechoslovakia until 1991. So Znaim (in Czech Znojmo) in 1909 was not in Czechoslovakia, is not today. It is in South Moravia (not far from Austrian border) in Czech Republic.

Andrzej,
These drivers have been so insignificant that it is very hard to find information about them. If you want me to search for Hubert Sachsel, Walter Wustrow or H. Muschik, you need to help with some information like a certain year, event or car (make) they had driven, possibly sports or touring cars. These drivers were tiny minnows in a large pond full of fish - therefore hard to find, if you understand what I mean.

H. Ostermuth von Tschaikoff is also a minnow, therefore I cannot see or find more under my magnifying glass.

Emil Frankl: I work on a brief abstract of this minnow. But I don't think we can turn him into a fish.

Originally posted by st59cz
..... Znaim (in Czech Znojmo) in 1909 was not in Czechoslovakia, is not today. It is in South Moravia (not far from Austrian border) in Czech Republic.

st59cz,
Thanks for this geography/history lesson. Its always a problem.

Andrzej,

Hubert K. Sachsel, (Wien) (Bugatti 2.3-liter)
Aug 31, 1930 at Gaisberg-Climb, 2nd in 3000 cc touring car class
Sep 7, 1930 at Pötschenpass-Climb, 1st in 3000 cc touring car class
Sep 21, 1930 at Svab Mountain Climb(Hungary), 1st in 3000 cc touring car class
Oct 5, 1930 at Zirlerberg Climb: 2nd in 3000 cc touring car class
1930 Austrian Mountain Champion in touring car class.
Jun 7, 1931 at Lwow Grand Prix, race for touring cars: DNF, (crashed on wet road, hit a lamp post, fell out of the car and received serious injuries)

Rittmeister (Captain of cavalry) Hans Ostermuth von Tschaikoff (Wien) (Amilcar) (Source: AAZ (A) 1931, No.12, pg.33)
Sep 7, 1930 at Pötschenpass-Climb, 2nd in class up to 1500 cc racing car
May 23-24, 1931 Touringfahrt of the Austrian Touring Club: winner in the sport car category.

Hans,
The whole of above posts is very good catch. Thanks.

Note: Hubert K. Sachsel was the only one driver, who started in GP Lwow 1931 with helmet.

Clever man then... Could've been a fatal accident, otherwise!

Originally posted by David McKinney
Mont Ventoux, 75 ans de sports mécaniques 1902-1976 by Maurice Louche 1984. No ISBN, no publisher mentioned (!) but a note that the book comes avec la collaboration de l'Automobile-Club Vauclusien

Maurice Louche is a very meticulous researcher that publishes his own works.

He can be reached at

Éditions Maurice LOUCHE
Campagne Cambronne
13980 ALLIENS (France, of course)

There is also a phone number but I will refrain from publishing it. Should anybody be interested I will provide it.

fm

Originally posted by Felix Muelas
Maurice Louche is a very meticulous researcher that publishes his own works.

What else has he published, Felix?

and also:
Le Tour de France automobile 1899 - 1986, in collaboration with the "Automobile Club de Nice" et his A.S. and with Bernard Consten (A.S.A. Tour de France), preface by Jean-Pierre Beltoise.
448 pages, 944 pictures. This book won the Prix Bellecour 1987.

Le Tour de Corse automobile 1956 - 1986, in appendix 1987-1988-1989, in collaboration with the "Association sportive de l'AC de Corse", preface by Jean-Claude Andruet. 352 pages, 710 pictures.

1895 - 1995 Un siècle de grands pilotes français, preface by Juan-Manuel Fangio. 3 Volumes, 880 pages, 2000 pictures. Those books won the GP du livre de Chamonix 1996.

Oh, that Maurice Louche!
The Marseilles book is still on my must-buy-when-I-can-afford it list (near the top), and the French drivers for when I get rich (right after Simon Moore's 2.3 Alfa book).
Thanks for the info, chaps

Hans,
you might want to add to Jellen's profile what is certainly his outstanding contribution to motorsport.
He introduced a most vivacious lady called Ilse Engels née Hubasch to Paul Pietsch in 1933. [source P. Pietsch interviewed by G. Terruzzi for the book Una Curva Cieca, p. 142]

Thanks Alessandro -
Ilse Pietsch's maiden name was Engel (according to the book Doppelsieg by Mike Riedner). When she was 17, Ilse had married a businessman from Frankfurt. But the marriage fell apart and she fell in love with Charley Jellen, whom Ilse had met at an airfield race. After her divorce she found out that Jellen did not intend to marry her and that is when Ilse met Paul Pietsch. They were both 23 when they got married in 1934. The men admired the beautiful Ilse. The saying "A beautiful woman is never your own" became then true when she met Achille Varzi who also worshipped the blonde beauty.

Originally posted by David McKinney
.....My first reference to Emil Frankl is in the 21/9/29 Ecce Homo hillclimb (Czechoslovakia) where he drove a Steyr and made second-FTD to Stuck (Austro-Daimler). In 1931 he contested local Austrian events (no results known to me) with a Bugatti 37A, and also raced in the international voiturette events at Avus 2/8 (unplaced) and Brno 27/9 (fourth). I have no reference to him after that until the 1934 Eifelrennen when, again driving a Bugatti, he crashed fatally.
His brother Oskar Frankl had raced a BMW without success in the 1930 Masaryk voiturette race. I think either or both of them were ex-motorcyclists.....

Emil and Oscar Frankl - a detailed abstract of Emil is now also at Leif's Web site, which I visit quite regularly: http://www.kolumbus....llman/d3.htm#FA

Emil was the younger brother to Oskar Frankl, an engineer who during the sixties managed a Peugeot dealership in Vienna, Austria. Oscar had raced motorcycles in the mid twenties before he appeared with a 750 cc BMW Dixi, which he entered primarily at mountain climbs in the touring car class as early as 1928. He was not seen racing after Emil's death.

The younger brother, Emil, first appeared at the 1927 Semmering with a touring Bugatti. He was then seen again in 1929 and early 1930 with an old former works Steyr 5.0-liter racer, which he entered at mountain climbs. During 1931 he acquired a 1.5-liter Bugatti T37A and the following year he raced a 2.3-liter T35B. On his trip to England, Emil Frankl had Hubert Papworth, one of the best Bugatti specialist, prepare his car, before he entered the T35B at the Brooklands 500-Mile Race, where as per B.B. "Frankl's Bugatti, after a never very happy run, seized." The Eifelrennen in 1934 was his first race that year and also his last. After Emil Frankl’s death, the Bugatti T35B was acquired by Adolf Brudes in Breslau.

After presumed contact with another car, the Austrian Emil Frankl crashed fatally immediately after the start of the big cars in the 1934 Eifelrennen on June 3. In front of a densely packed crowd and amongst the tightly bunched cars, his little Bugatti left the road at more than 100 mph and tumbled over near the end of the starting straight leading into south turn. When the car somersaulted through the air and bounced over the median dividing the track from the return straight on the other side, three wheels and the hood broke off. The unfortunate driver was ejected through the air and landed on the return straight where he lay unconsciously on the concrete edge of the circuit with a cracked skull. But then the big cars came racing out of the south turn on the return straight leading back to the grandstand. Only in the last moment did a marshal managed to wave a yellow flag at the over 100 mph onrushing Mercedes of leader Fagioli, his foot flattening the accelerator. It was an exciting and dangerous moment when the field of cars came racing past, barely avoiding the wreckage, narrowly missing the lifeless, bleeding body of poor Frankl. Thereby they avoided even greater drama while snaking their racing cars through the debris.

Frankl died after he was brought to the Adenau hospital.

• Emil Frankl’s incomplete racing record
• 1927 – Sep 11, Semmering: Bugatti 1500cc: 1st in 1500 cc sports car class
• 1929 – Sep 15, Semmering: 5.0-liter Steyr: Crash
• 1929 – Sep 22, Ecce-Homo: 5.0-liter Steyr: 2nd in class over 2000 cc, 3rd fastest racing car
• 1929 – Sep 29, Svab Mountain Climb: 5.0-liter Steyr: 1st in 8000 cc racing class
• 1929 – Oct 6, Zirlerberg Climb: 5.0-liter Steyr: 1st in 8000 cc racing class
• 1930 – May 11, Zbraslav-Jiloviste Climb: 5.0-liter Steyr in 3000-5000 cc racing class: DNF
• 1931 – Jul 5, Marne Grand Prix: Bugatti T37A: DNF
• 1931 – Aug 2, Avusrennen: Bugatti T37A: DNF after 2 from 10 laps with plug trouble
• 1931 – Sep 6, Kriens-Eigenthal Mt. Climb: Bugatti T37A: 1st in 1500 racing class, 4th place overall
• 1931 – Sep 13, La Baulle Grand Prix: Bugatti T37A: DNF
• 1931 – Sep 27, Masaryk Circuit Race: Bugatti T37A: 4th in 1500 cc class
• 1933 – Sep 16, 500-Mile Race (Brooklands) : Bugatti T35B: DNF
• 1933 – Sep 24, Spanish Grand Prix: Bugatti T35B: DNF ( crash on lap 8 of 30)
• 1934 – Jun 3, Eifelrennen: Bugatti T35B: DNF (fatal crash on lap 1)
  
• Oscar Frankl’s incomplete racing record
• 1928 – Sep 16, Semmering: BMW Dixi 750 cc: 1st in 750 cc touring car class
• 1930 – Aug 31, Gaisberg Climb: BMW Dixi 750 cc: 2nd in 750 cc touring car class
• 1930 – Sep 14, Semmering: BMW Dixi 750 cc: 1st in 750 cc touring car class
• 1930 – Sep 28, Masaryk Circuit Race: BMW Dixi 740 cc: DNF (crash, drove in a ditch)
• 1931 – Sep 27, Masaryk Circuit Race: Bugatti 1.5-liter:4th place in 1500 cc class
• 1932 – May 22, Prebichl Mountain Climb: BMW Dixi 750 cc: 2nd in 750 cc touring/sports car class
• 1933 – Sep 24, Semmering: Lancia Augusta: 2nd in Touring car class

Sources:
AAZ (A) 1927. Semmering results
AAZ (A) 1929, No. 19, pg. 13, 59 - no. 20, pg.23,
AAZ (A) 1930 – 1933
AAZ (A) 1934, No.6, pg.8 crash
AAZ (A) 1934, No.6, pg.10 bad picture
AAZ (D) 1929 – 1933
AAZ (D) 1934, No?, pg.12 crash picture
AAZ (D) 1934, No?, pg.13 crash text
AZ – Motorwelt 1929, No. 31,32, pg.9
AZ – Motorwelt 1930 – 1934
MOTOR und SPORT 1927, No 39, pg.44
MOTOR und SPORT 1928 – 1934
MOTOR und SPORT 1934, No 23, pg.14
Erwin Tragatsch: Die großen Rennjahre, pg. 186, crash
Erwin Tragatsch: Das große Rennfahrerbuch, pg. 131
Bodo Herzog, Unter dem Mercedes - Stern, pg.17
Paul Sheldon, Vol. 2, pg. 276, 288, 295, 296, 298,
Paul Sheldon, Vol. 3, pg. 118, 148, 181 (crash: broken wheel?)
Dameron-Derauw, Dominique & Mélin, Cyrille & Mélin, Jean-Pierre, Reims, Vitesse Champagne et Passion,
William Boddy, The History of BROOKLANDS Motor Course, 1906-1940.

One more Emil Frankl’s result:
1931 - Aug 16, Tatra Race: Bugatti 37A: 8th in racing class (6m07s00)

One more Hubert Sachsel's results
1930 - September 14, 1930, Semmering, Bugatti, 8m 19s, 1st in 3 L touring car class.
Source: Frankfurter Zeitungen.

Strange, all his known results are concentrated in a very short period.