- Georg Meier
War Service
After the crash at the Swedish Grand Prix in August 1939, Georg Meier spent two months recovering from a serious back-injury. Due to the injury this led to Georg Meier being declared unfit for military service and spent the war as a motor-cycle instructor for the German Military Police and as a driver to
Wilhelm Canaris head of the "Abwehr ", the Germanmilitary intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944. ["Daily Telegraph" dated 21 February 1999]Post War Racing
After the war Germany was excluded from motor sport competition, including the world championships until 1951. ["Classic Racer" no 78 - pp 72 Mertons Motor-Cycle Media Group plc] Between 1947 and 1953, Georg Meier won the German 500cc championship on a modified pre-war supercharged BMW motor-cycle for six years out of seven. In 1952 he narrowly missed-out to young team-mate
Walter Zeller and became German Sportsman of the Year in 1949 the first time a motor-cycle racer had won the prize. ["German Racing Motorcycles" by Mick Walker pp17 (1st Edition) (1999) Redline Books ISBN 0-9531311-22] Also, Georg Meier formed the BMW Veritas Team and won the German sports car championship in 1948.After regaining the German Championship from Walter Zeller in 1953, Georg Meier retired from racing to concentrate on his BMW motor-cycle business. In 1983 Georg Meier appeared in the BMW campaign to celebrate 60 years of motor-cycle production and to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1939 Senior TT Race win, Georg Meier demonstrated the
BMW Type 255 Kompressor in the Lap of Honour during the1989 Isle of Man TT Race.ources
External links
* [http://www.iomtt.com/TTDatabase/Riders.aspx?ride_id=836 TT database rider profile] iomtt.com
* [http://www.iomtt.com/TTDatabase/Races.aspx?meet_code=ALL&ride_id=836 TT database TT results] iomtt.com
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