Christian Kautz

Christian Kautz (born 23 November 1913 – died on 4 July 1948) was an auto racing driver from Switzerland.

Son of a Swiss multi-millionaire, his career started with Mercedes-Benz as a junior driver in 1936, then as an Auto Union junior driver in 1938, starting in three Grands Prix. Kautz was a testpilot for Lockheed in the United States during the Second World War. He died at only 34 years of age in a fatal accident in a Maserati at the 1948 Swiss Grand Prix in Bremgarten.

The Grand Prix Silver Arrows

Auto Union

Cars	Type A Type B Type C Type D

Drivers	Bigalke Burggaller von Delius Fagioli Hasse Heydel Kautz Kluge Leiningen Meier Momberger Müller Nuvolari Pietsch Rosemeyer Sebastian Stuck Varzi

Personnel	von Eberhorst (engine designer) Feuereissen (team manager) Porsche (designer) Rosenberg (designer) Sebastian (technical racing manager) Siebler (designer) Strobel (designer) Walb (team manager)

Mercedes-Benz

Cars	W25 W125 Stromlinienwagen W154 W165

Drivers	Bäumer von Brauchitsch Brendel Caracciola Chiron Fagioli Geier Hartmann Henne Kautz Lang Seaman Zehender

Personnel	Heefi (engine designer) Heeß (designer) Neubauer (team manager) Nallinger (engineer) Nibel (engineer/technical director) Sailer (designer) Schilling (engine designer) Uhlenhaut (designer/technical director) Wagner (designer)

Miscellaneous

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