(Friedrich Elias Willibald) Willy Pöge (2 December 1869 - 12 May 1914)
from

Chemnitz University of Technology Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt , ) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the 28th largest city of Germany as well as the fourth largest city in the area of former East Germany a ...

was a German engineer and racing car driver. He was born in

Chemnitz Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt , ) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the 28th largest city of Germany as well as the fourth largest city in the area of former East Germany a ...

, son of Hermann Pöge who encouraged him to study

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at the

in 1890. After the father’s death in 1894, Willy worked with Heinrich Goetz in the establishment of a workshop making

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s and

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s. He also established activities in other cities such as Berlin, Dortmund, Dresden, Leipzig, Düsseldorf, Hamburg and Frankfurt/Main, as well as exports to France, Greece, the Netherlands, Romania, Russia and overseas. The company was after his death sold to

AEG Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft AG (AEG; ) was a German producer of electrical equipment founded in Berlin as the ''Deutsche Edison-Gesellschaft für angewandte Elektricität'' in 1883 by Emil Rathenau. During the Second World War, AEG ...

in 1930. His fame however, is due to car racing. Racing for ''Chemnitzer Radsportveranstaltungen'' since 1889, he was Sachsenmeister in 1889 and achieved third in the German championship. Since 1903 he raced for

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, winning with Christian Lautenschlager and Otto Salzer in the

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. His last race was Tsar Nichols's Russian Touring Trial that same year, in which he triumphed. He next started flying until he died of a

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in 1914.

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