Rudolf Hasse

German racing driver (1906–1942)

Rudolf Hasse (30 May 1906 – 12 August 1942) was a German racing driver who won the 1937 Belgian Grand Prix.^[1]

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.^[2]

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^ von Frankenberg, Richard Alexander Freiherr (1966). Die grossen Fahrer von einst. Motorbuch Verlag. p. 42.
^ Hochstetter, Dorothee (2005). Motorisierung und "Volksgemeinschaft": Das Nationalsozialistische Kraftfahrkorps (NSKK) 1931–1945. Oldenbourg Verlag. pp. 291–292. ISBN 3486575708.

The Grand Prix Silver Arrows

Auto Union

Cars	Type A Type B Type C Type D
Drivers	Bigalke Burggaller von Delius Fagioli Hasse Heydel Kautz Kluge Leiningen Meier Momberger Müller Nuvolari Pietsch Rosemeyer Sebastian Stuck Varzi
Personnel	von Eberhorst (engine designer) Feuereissen (team manager) Porsche (designer) Rosenberg (designer) Sebastian (technical racing manager) Siebler (designer) Strobel (designer) Walb (team manager)

Mercedes-Benz

Cars	W25 W125 Stromlinienwagen W154 W165
Drivers	Bäumer von Brauchitsch Brendel Caracciola Chiron Fagioli Geier Hartmann Henne Kautz Lang Seaman Zehender
Personnel	Heefi (engine designer) Heeß (designer) Neubauer (team manager) Nallinger (engineer) Nibel (engineer/technical director) Sailer (designer) Schilling (engine designer) Uhlenhaut (designer/technical director) Wagner (designer)