Career
During the late 1940s and early 1950s, he built a reputation as a constructor of special racing cars, sometimes based on the Bayerische Motoren Werke 328, with which he enjoyed some success in various formulae including Formula Two. His single entry into a World Championship Formula One race was at the 1952 German Grand Prix. Driving his six-cylinder AFM car, he completed the qualifying sessions but did not appear on the starting grid.
Krakau died in Peine in 1995.