Ernst Degner was a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from East Germany, born Ernst Eugen Wotzlawek on 22 September 1931 in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia. A trained development engineer, he raced and tuned two-stroke machines for the MZ factory from 1956 and won the 1959 125cc Nations Grand Prix at Monza. In September 1961 he defected to the west during the Swedish Grand Prix weekend, taking MZ's tuning knowledge to Suzuki, and in 1962 he won Suzuki's first Grand Prix championship. He died on 10 September 1983 in Arona, Tenerife.
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was a professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Eastern Germany.
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winning Suzuki's first Grand Prix championship in 1962
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was a professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from Eastern Germany.
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From 1958 on, the factory entered Degner in all world Championship races
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