Hermann Paul Müller


Hermann Paul Müller 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.

Racing record

Complete European Championship results

YearEntrantMake12345EDCPoints
1937Auto UnionAuto Union Type CBEL
Ret		GER
Ret		MONSUIITA
5		14th33
1938Auto UnionAuto Union Type DFRA
DNS		GER
4		SUI
Ret		ITA
Ret		5th=20
1939Auto UnionAuto Union Type DBEL
Ret		FRA
1		GER
2		SUI
4		1st12

Motorcycle Grand Prix results

Points system from 1950 to 1968.
Position123456
Points864321


YearClassTeam123456789PointsRankWins
1952125ccMondialIOMNEDGERULSNATESP
5		215th0
1953500ccHorex
MV Agusta		IOMNEDBELGERFRAULSSUI
Ret		NAT
6		ESP119th0
1954125ccNSUIOM
Ret		ULS
2		NED
2		GER
4		NATESP153rd0
1954250ccNSUFRA
2		IOM
4		ULS
3		NED
5		GER
14		SUI
3		NAT17 3rd0
1955250ccNSUIOM
3		GER
1		NED
3		ULS
6		NAT
4		161st1