Rudolf Hasse

Rudolf Hasse (30 May 1906 – 12 August 1942) was a famous German racing driver. He won the 1937 Belgian Grand Prix.

Hasse was born in Mittweida, Saxony, and died while serving on the Russian front during World War II in a military hospital in Makiivka, Ukraine, from shigellosis aged only 36. In the 1930s he was a member of the National Socialist Motor Corps.