RACING DRIVER

Kurt Adolff

1921 - 2012

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Kurt Adolff (5 November 1921 – 24 January 2012) was a racing driver from Germany. Adolff was born in Stuttgart, Germany, into a family that owned a textile company, and served as a paratrooper during the Second World War. Adolff competed in Formula Two races in the early 1950s racing BMW-engined cars, achieving modest success including second place at a race at the Munich-Riem Airport. He later competed in a Ferrari 500 during 1953, and participated in the 1953 German Grand Prix, driving Rudi Fischer's Ferrari 500 for the Ecurie Espadon Team. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kurt Adolff is the 275th most popular racing driver (down from 216th in 2019), the 4,035th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,527th in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Racing Driver.

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Among RACING DRIVERS

Among racing drivers, Kurt Adolff ranks 275 out of 1,080. Before him are Jules Bianchi, Valtteri Bottas, Jutta Kleinschmidt, Franz Tost, Nelson Piquet Jr., and Michel Leclère. After him are Karl Wendlinger, Luca Badoer, Peter Gethin, Kurt Ahrens Jr., François Picard, and Paco Godia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Kurt Adolff ranks 250. Before him are Giuseppe Delfino, Frédéric Dard, Judy Holliday, Hossein Wahid Khorasani, Maria Gorokhovskaya, and Jack Clayton. After him are Adolf Wiklund, Edvard Mirzoyan, Cuthbert Sebastian, Alfréd Rényi, Jacques Lecoq, and Grigory Chukhray. Among people deceased in 2012, Kurt Adolff ranks 231. Before him are Mustafa Ould Salek, Sage Stallone, Pierre Sinibaldi, Zakaria Mohieddin, Luis Alberto Spinetta, and Pierre Mondy. After him are Edvard Mirzoyan, Rashidi Yekini, Armand Penverne, Ann Rutherford, Sergey Kapitsa, and Rafael Lesmes.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kurt Adolff ranks 4,037 out of 7,253. Before him are Michael Verhoeven (1938), Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (1794), Carlos Marín (1968), Arno Peters (1916), Karl Hofer (1878), and Uwe Rahn (1962). After him are Edin Terzić (1982), Ferdinand Mannlicher (1848), Antje Jackelén (1955), Otto Fahr (1892), Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster (1869), and Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1866).

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Among RACING DRIVERS In Germany

Among racing drivers born in Germany, Kurt Adolff ranks 24. Before him are Hermann Lang (1909), Hans Heyer (1943), Nick Heidfeld (1977), Rudi Fischer (1912), Jutta Kleinschmidt (1962), and Nelson Piquet Jr. (1985). After him are Kurt Ahrens Jr. (1940), Paul Pietsch (1911), Adrian Sutil (1983), Edgar Barth (1917), Klaus Ludwig (1949), and Michael May (1934).

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