Max Grosskreutz

Max Grosskreutz
Personal information
Nationality	Australia
Date of birth	25 April 1906(1906-04-25)
Place of birth	Prosperine, North Queensland
Date of death	20 September 1990(1990-09-20) (aged 84)
Current club information
Career status	Retired
Career history
Lea Bridge Belle Vue Aces Odsal Boomerangs	1929 1930-1936 1947-1948
Individual honours
Australian Champion NSW State Champion	1929, 1936 1936, 1946
Team honours
National League Champion Northern league Champion National Trophy winner	1933, 1934, 1935, 1936 1931 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936

Max Octavius Grosskreutz (born 25 April 1906 in Prosperine, North Queensland, Australia ^[1]- died 20 September 1990) was a Speedway who finished third in the Star Riders' Championship in 1935, the forerunner to the Speedway World Championship.

Grosskreutz won the Australian Championship at Davies Park in Brisbane in 1929 and again in 1936 at the famous Sydney Showground. He was also NSW State Champion in 1936 and 1946.

He rode for Lea Bridge in 1931 and moved onto the Belle Vue Aces in 1932. He stayed with the aces until the end of the 1936 season when he retired to manage the Norwich Stars.^[1] During this time he made forty-one Test Match appearances for Australia.^[2]

In 1947 he made a comeback, riding for the Odsal Boomerangs and made three further Test Match appearances.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Bamford, R. & Stallworthy, D. (2003) Speedway - The Pre War Years, Stroud: Tempus Publishing. ISBN 0-7524-2749-0
2. ^ Foster, P. (2005) History of the Speedway Ashes, The History Press Ltd. ISBN 0-7524-3468-3
3. ^ Addison J. (1948). The People Speedway Guide. Odhams Press Limited

Persondata
Name	Grosskreutz, Maximillian Octavius
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	25 April 1906
Place of birth	Prosperine, North Queensland, Australia
Date of death	20 September 1990
Place of death