Charlie Mills (harness racer)

Charlie Mills (23 November 1888 in Hamburg – 7 June 1972 in Switzerland) was a German harness racing driver and trainer of an Irish descent.

Mills had a great influence on the development of German harness racing before World War II.

[2] His father came to Germany for working as a trainer at the newly opened Bahrenfeld race track in Hamburg.

[4] In 1931 he started a stud farm named Gestüt Lindenhof in Templin, Brandenburg with a Jewish publisher and horse breeder Bruno Cassirer, who later emigrated to Britain.

In 1966, Mills made a short appearance in a French comedy Le Caïd de Champignol by Jean Bastia.