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Otto Hieronimus (26 July 1879 – 8 May 1922) was a German-Austrian engineer, car and engine designer, pilot and race car driver being one of the most successful Austrian car racers of his age.
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Otto Hieronimus (26 July 1879 – 8 May 1922) was a German-Austrian engineer, car and engine designer, pilot and race car driver being one of the most successful Austrian car racers of his age.
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Career Otto Hieronimus was born in 1879 in Cologne as the son of a local representative of the Benz & Cie company. Between 1896 and 1898 he worked for the Benz company in Mannheim, then he continued in his studies and attended a technical school in Hildburghausen, Thuringia. In 1901 he was tasked to deliver Benz Patent Motorwagen number 1 to Arnold Spitz. Spitz, the largest car dealer in Vienna, offering brands like Benz & Cie., De Dion-Bouton or Mercedes, entrusted Hieronimus with the construction of his own car for Austrian car company Gräf & Stift, also co-owned by Spitz. The result was a car known as the Spitz-Wagen, a model which was produced and then distributed by Spitz's company between 1902 and 1903. In December 1907 Hieronimus started to work as a constructor and test driver in Laurin & Klement motorbikes and car factory in Mladá Boleslav, Bohemia, the predecessor of today's Škoda Auto. With L&K cars he was attending multiple car races and meetings. In 1908, Hieronimus set a new speed record on the world's first permanent circuit at Brooklands, United Kingdom in Laurin & Klement FCS - 118.72 km/h on the 2.76-mile track. In the same year…
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Literature George Nick Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P–Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1.