Otto Salzer
Otto Salzer (4 April 1874 – 7 January 1944) was a German racing car driver, famous for his contributions to the success of Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft in Untertürkheim near Stuttgart, where he became team leader in 1903, previously having worked as an engineer since 1896. He had some good results, and was one of the first German Grand Prix-drivers when his Mercedes team (with Camille Jenatzy and Victor Hémery) joined the 1907 French Grand Prix. Salzer continued in the 1908 French Grand Prix (with Christian Lautenschlager and Willy Pöge, driving a 140 HP Mercedes), 1914 French Grand Prix (with Louis Wagner), 1906 Circuit des Ardennes, and was also present the 1922 Italian Grand Prix. He was born in Möglingen, Württemberg and died in Obertürkheim near Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttg ...
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Otto Salzer At The 1914 French Grand Prix (cropped)
Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded from the 7th century ( Odo, son of Uro, courtier of Sigebert III). It was the name of three 10th-century German kings, the first of whom was Otto I the Great, the first Holy Roman Emperor, founder of the Ottonian dynasty. The Gothic form of the prefix was ''auda-'' (as in e.g. '' Audaþius''), the Anglo-Saxon form was ''ead-'' (as in e.g. ''Eadmund''), and the Old Norse form was '' auð-''. The given name Otis arose from an English surname, which was in turn derived from ''Ode'', a variant form of ''Odo, Otto''. Due to Otto von Bismarck, the given name ''Otto'' was strongly associated with the German Empire in the later 19th century. It was comparatively frequently given in the United States (presumably in German American families) during t ...
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