death_place death_date birth_place nationality birth_date article_title name
ingolstadt , west germany 30 december 1975 bielefeld , germany german 21 november 1909 hermann paul müller
 hermann paul müller
hermann paul müller

hermann paul müller -lrb- born in bielefeld , 21 november 1909 - died in ingolstadt , 30 december 1975 -rrb- was a german sidecar , motorcycle , and race car driver .
müller started his competitive career on an imperia in 1928 .
he became german sidecar champion in 1932 , then in 1936 , he took the german 500cc motorcycle title .
he switched to cars the next year , driving for auto union .
he won the 1939 edition of the fia french grand prix held in reims .
the winner of that season 's european championship was never officially announced by the aiacr due to the outbreak of world war ii .
although müller would have won the championship on points , the president of germany 's highest motorsports organisation declared hermann lang the champion .
after the war he returned to motorcycle racing , winning the 1947 and 1948 german 250cc titles on dkw .
in 1955 , he won the 250cc world championship riding an nsu sportmax .
he also set quite a number of world speed records in five classes over six distances for nsu on the bonneville salt flats in 1956 .
to this day he remains the oldest person to win a grand prix motorcycle world championship , at the age of 46 .
