Willy Pöge

(Friedrich Elias Willibald) Willy Pöge (2 December 1869 - 12 May 1914)[1] was a German engineer and racing car driver.

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

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.

Since 1903 he raced for Mercedes-Benz, winning with Christian Lautenschlager and Otto Salzer in the 1908 French Grand Prix.

His last race was Tsar Nichols's Russian Touring Trial that same year, in which he triumphed.