Max Grosskreutz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian speedway rider
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Place of Birth: Proserpine, Queensland, Australia
About Max Grosskreutz
- Max Octavius Grosskreutz (born 27 April 1906 in Proserpine, Queensland- died 20 September 1994) was an Australian speedway rider who finished third in the Star Riders' Championship in 1935, the forerunner to the Speedway World Championship which began a year later in 1936. Grosskreutz won the Australian Championship at Davies Park Speedway in Brisbane in 1929 and again in 1936 at the famous Sydney Showground.
- He was also NSW State Champion in 1936 and 1946. He moved to the Belle Vue Aces in 1931.
- He stayed with the aces until the end of the 1936 season when he retired to manage the Norwich Stars.
- During this time he made forty-one Test Match appearances for Australia.In 1947 he made a comeback, riding for the Odsal Boomerangs and made three further Test Match appearances.
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