German Cycling Association of the GDR

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The German Cycling Association of the GDR (DRSV) was the association for the organization of cycling in the GDR from 1958 to 1990 .

Cycling section

The forerunner of the DRSV was the German Sports Committee of the GDR (DS) , founded in 1948 , under whose roof the cycling section was set up. Since the DS did not recognize the Federation of German Cyclists (BDR) as the all-German representation of cycling, the organization of cycling in the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR was separated. First was within the section Cycle one from autumn 1946 a Commission professional cycling to the professional cycling in the GDR responsible, and BDR and BRK acknowledged their mutual licenses. In 1958 the BRK was formally dissolved (it had stopped working after the last race for professional riders on July 7, 1955 in Chemnitz), so there were no longer any professional cyclists in the GDR.

In 1953 talks between the BDR and the cycling section to host joint German championships failed. In 1955 the section was included in the World Cycling Association Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), but sports traffic between the two German states was severely restricted. From 1956 to 1964 GDR cyclists took part in the Olympic Games as part of the all-German team .

DRSV

DRSV President Werner Scharch (r.) At an award ceremony in 1956 on the Weißensee Velodrome

On May 18, 1958, as a result of the German Gymnastics and Sports Federation (DTSB) founded in 1957 in the GDR, the DRSV was brought into being in Leipzig . Its first president, Werner Scharch , left for Austria in 1960 at a meeting with the BDR in Giessen . In 1960 the DRSV succeeded in bringing the UCI World Championships for rail and road to the GDR. From the 1960s onwards, meetings between athletes from both German states only took place within international competitions. At the Olympic Games in Mexico in 1968 , cyclists from the DRSV and the BDR competed separately in two Olympic teams for the first time, but without anthems and flags. It was not until 1972 in Munich that there were two sovereign teams. In 1965, the DRSV introduced the annual children and youth spartakiad for the systematic discovery of talent , the program of which also included cycling competitions. In 1974 the DRSV approved “best determinations” for drivers from non-state sponsored company sports associations , so that another competition system arose in the GDR alongside the officially organized competitive sport.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall , a first meeting between the BDR and the DRSV took place in December 1989 to coordinate further cooperation. On April 28, 1990, a praesidium was elected in a first secret ballot and new statutes were adopted. At the UCI rail world championships in 1990 in Maebashi , the presidents of the BDR, Werner Göhner , and the DRSV, Wolfgang Schoppe , symbolically removed the bars between the driver's boxes of the two German teams. On December 8, 1990, the five regional associations of the new federal states joined the BDR.

Chairpersons or presidents of the GDR cycling organizations

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 32/1955 . Sportverlag, Berlin 1955, p. 5 .