Franz Bronold

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Franz Bronold Road cycling
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Date of birth May 28, 1918
date of death May 1943
nation German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
discipline Road / rail (endurance)
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1938-1943 RC Wanderer Chemnitz
Last updated: October 20, 2018

Franz Bronold ( May 28, 1918 - May 1943 ) was a German cyclist who competed in races on the road and track .

Athletic career

In 1938 Franz Bronold won the street race around Cologne among the amateurs , in Rund um die Hainleite he finished third. As a member of the German national team, he started the first Greater German Alpine Tour . From 1939 to 1941 he was three times in a row with the team of RC Wanderer Chemnitz German champion in the team pursuit . In 1941 he also surprisingly won the amateur road race at the German road championships in Augsburg with a 17 second lead over the favorite Hans Preiskeit and the Viennese Rudi Valenta ; he completed the 241-kilometer route in six hours, 52 minutes and 55 seconds. In Rund um Leipzig in the same year, he came in second.

According to the Wanderer-Werke personnel files, Bronold, who was listed there as an “auxiliary controller and cyclist”, died in early May 1943. In July 1943, the newspaper Der Deutsche Radfahrer reported that Bronold had fallen “on the field of honor”.

successes

1938
1939
1940
1941

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Innsbrucker Nachrichten , June 9, 1938, p. 8.
  2. ^ Deutsche Zeitung in the Netherlands , July 14, 1941, p. 5.
  3. ^ Marburger Zeitung , July 14, 1941, p. 6.
  4. ↑ Noordbrabantsch Dagblad , July 14, 1941, p. 3.
  5. ^ Wanderer-Werke AG, Siegmar-Schönau - Franz Bronold. In: archiv.sachsen.de. Retrieved October 20, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Der Deutsche Radfahrer - Illustrierter Radrenn-Sport , July 21, 1943, p. 2.
personal data
SURNAME Bronold, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1918
DATE OF DEATH May 1943