GDR tour 1976

24th GDR tour 1976
Host country	German Democratic Republic
Competition period	August 14-21, 1976
Stages	8th
overall length	1,162 km
winner
Overall rating	1. Siegbert Schmeißer 29:47:49 h 2. Uwe Freese + 1:13 min 3. Bernard Kręczyński + 4:54 min
Team evaluation	GDR II 89:43:45 h
Scoring jerseys
Individual evaluation	Siegbert Schmeißer
Team ranking	GDR II
Most active driver	Rainer Salan
Mountain scoring	Bernd Drogan
GDR young drivers	Siegbert Schmeißer
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The 24th GDR tour took place from August 14 to 21, 1976 . With eight stages it led over 1,162 km. The 1st stage was declared as Rund um Berlin , the 8th stage as a Harz tour . The overall winner of the tour was 19-year-old Siegbert Schmeißer .

Attendees

66 drivers from four countries took part in the 24th tour. In addition to the drivers from the GDR, guests from Belgium , the ČSSR and Poland could be welcomed. The Belgian team retired with all drivers during the tour.

Scoring jerseys

In this tour five were classification jerseys awarded: the yellow jersey of the overall best, the blue of the best team , the Violet of the most active rider, the green of the best mountain rider , and the white of the best young rider of the GDR.

Stages

With eight stages, the tour extended over 1,162 km.

1st stage: Around Berlin , 168 km

The 70th street race around Berlin for the Grand Prix of the Berliner Zeitung was also the 1st stage of the 24th GDR tour.

In addition to the 66 drivers of the GDR tour, 21 athletes started, who only contested the classic Rund um Berlin . A three-man top group sprinted for victory on the Weißensee cycle race track , which was secured by the 19-year-old Belgian André Van den Steen . The defending champion and peace race winner Hans-Joachim Hartnick (GDR I) already lost eight minutes to the top on this stage.

	driver	team	time
1.	André Van den Steen	Belgium	4:13:11 h
2.	Bernard Kręczyński	Poland	+ 0:10 min
3.	Uwe Freese	SC Dynamo Berlin II	+ 0:20 min
4th	Ulrich Borrmann	ASK forward Frankfurt / O. I.	+ 1:01 min
5.	Peter Koch	GDR II	+ 1:34 min
6th	Gottfried Preising	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 1:34 min
7th	Hans-Peter Woe	SC Cottbus	+ 1:34 min

Status after the 1st stage:
Van den Steen
Belgium
U. Freese

2nd stage: Berlin - Dessau , 168 km

The second stage was tackled by 60 active participants. One of the retired drivers was Gerhard Lauke (GDR I) , third of the Friedensfahrt team , who had to undergo an appendectomy that morning . At kilometer 117 a five-man breakaway group formed on the initiative of Rainer Salan . This then sprinted in Dessau's Paul Greifzu Stadium for the day's victory, which Salan secured. Uwe Freese in the white jersey of the best young GDR driver won the yellow jersey for the front runner and the purple jersey for the most active driver thanks to his third place on this stage.

	driver	team	time
1.	Rainer Salan	GDR II	4:05:14 h
2.	Bernd Fischer	SC DHfK Leipzig	+ 0:10 min
3.	Uwe Freese	SC Dynamo Berlin II	+ 0:20 min
4th	Francois Caethoven	Belgium	+ 0:30 min
5.	Kriszik	SC Dynamo Berlin II	+ 0:30 min
6th	Hans-Rüdiger Groß	SC Dynamo Berlin I	+ 0:38 min

Status after the 2nd stage:
U. Freese
SC Dynamo Berlin II
U. Freese
U. Freese

3rd stage: circuit race in Dessau, 135 km

On the 9 km course to be completed 15 times, Lothar Fischbach secured the day's victory in a sprint of a leading group of 22 people. This group, which also included the man in the yellow jersey, separated from the rest of the field after just 27 km.

	driver	team	time
1.	Lothar Fischbach	SC Turbine Erfurt	3:11:45 h
2.	Milan Sel	ČSSR	+ 0:10 min
3.	Siegbert Schmeißer	GDR I	+ 0:20 min
4th	Joachim Vogel	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt I	+ 0:30 min
5.	Peter Koch	GDR II	+ 0:30 min
6th	Günter Kubasch	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt II	+ 0:30 min

Status after the 3rd stage:
> U. Freese
SC Dynamo Berlin II
U. Freese
U. Freese

4th stage: Dessau - Mittweida , 148 km

The stage was ideally suited for outliers due to the rain and constantly changing climbs and descents. Rainer Salan and Burkhard Freese pulled away from the field after just 14 km. A larger group around Siegbert Schmeißer joined the two leaders after 60 km. On an ascent 10 km before the finish, Schmeißer blew up the leading group with Schröder, Preising and Petermann and sprinted in the stadium at Schwanenteich in Mittweida for the day's victory, which he then secured. The leader of the overall standings Uwe Freese reached the stage goal more than two minutes behind and lost his yellow jersey to the winner of the day.

	driver	team	time
1.	Siegbert Schmeißer	GDR I	3:35:25 h
2.	Wolfgang Schröder	SC Dynamo Berlin I	+ 0:13 min
3.	Gottfried Preising	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:23 min
4th	Andreas Petermann	GDR II	+ 0:33 min
5.	Eberhard Sanftleben	SC DHfK Leipzig	+ 1:45 min
6th	Peter Koch	GDR II	+ 1:45 min

Status after the 4th stage:
Schmeißer
SC Dynamo Berlin I
Schmeißer

5th stage: Mittweida - Plauen , 123 km

Like the day before, continuous rain on a wavy and winding route profile. On the ascent to the Sachsenring (31 km), a leading group of seventeen formed around the leading Schmeißer . 19-year-old Andreas Petermann pulled away from this 20 km before the finish and reached the stage finish with a 17-second lead. The main field arrived in Plauen, more than twelve minutes behind.

	driver	team	time
1.	Andreas Petermann	GDR II	3:13:50 h
2.	Hans-Joachim Meisch	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:27 min
3.	Uwe Freese	SC Dynamo Berlin II	+ 0:37 min
4th	Bernard Kręczyński	Poland	+ 0:47 min
5.	Lothar Fischbach	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:47 min
6th	Ladislav Ferebauer	ČSSR	+ 0:47 min

Status after the 5th stage: Schmeißer SC Turbine Erfurt Drogan U. Freese

6th stage: Plauen - Jena , 136 km

A three-man breakaway group with Milan Sel, Andreas Neuer and Hans-Joachim Hartnick determined the initial phase of this stage. At Ziegenrück (76 km) Hartnick won the first mountain classification of the day ahead of Sel and Neuer. After this, three other drivers caught up with the Poles Firkowski, Burkhard Freese and Schimbor. At the Leuchtenburg (113 km) there was the second mountain classification, which Hartnick passed behind Firkowski. With second place, Hartnick initially secured the green jersey of the best climber. The finish sprint of the six-man top group then won in the Jena district of Neulobeda Firkowski ahead of Freese and Schimbor. The peloton crossed the finish line a minute later, led by Siegbert Schmeißer wearing the yellow jersey .

	driver	team	time
1.	Juliusz Firkowski	Poland	3:46:46 h
2.	Burkhard Freese	SC Dynamo Berlin II	+ 0:10 min
3.	Eberhard Schimbor	SC Dynamo Berlin I	+ 0:20 min
4th	Milan Sel	ČSSR	+ 0:30 min
5.	Hans-Joachim Hartnick	GDR I	+ 0:30 min
6th	Andreas Neuer	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt I	+ 0:30 min

Status after the 6th stage: Schmeißer SC Turbine Erfurt Hartnick U. Freese

7th stage: Jena - Nordhausen , 165 km

The highlight of this stage was the thirty-six bends ascent to the Kyffhäuser summit at kilometer 115 , which was reached by a fifteen-strong breakaway group. Nine other drivers joined them 30 km from the finish line, including the yellow thrower . They then sprinted in Nordhausen on the cinder track of the Hohekreuzsportplatz for the day's victory, which the 20-year-old Holger Kickeritz secured.

	driver	team	time
1.	Holger Kickeritz	SC Dynamo Berlin II	4:25:05 h
2.	Siegbert Schmeißer	GDR I	+ 0:10 min
3.	Peter Koch	GDR II	+ 0:20 min
4th	Joachim Vogel	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt I	+ 0:30 min
5.	Hans-Joachim Meisch	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 0:30 min
6th	Andreas Neuer	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt I	+ 0:30 min

Status after the 7th stage: Schmeißer DDR II Salan Firkowski Schmeißer

8th stage: across the Harz , 119 km

The last stage, “Across the Harz”, with start and finish in Nordhausen , was all about the fight for the best climber (green jersey) . Hans-Joachim Hartnick, who lost the one the day before to the Pole Firkowski, tried desperately to outrun him in the initial phase. This was achieved by Bernd Drogan , who placed third in this classification, together with Detlef Kletzin and the Czechoslovaks Ladislav Ferebauer and Milan Sel. When Drogan then won the decisive mountain classification on Wendefurther Berg (79 km), the green jersey passed into his possession. Last but not least, he secured the day's victory on the Hohekreuzsportplatz in Nordhausen, in which he was able to break away from his companions before the finish line. The leader of this tour, Siegbert Schmeißer, rolled over the finish line in the main field, which was enough for him to win overall.

	driver	team	time
1.	Bernd Drogan	GDR I	3:09:09 h
2.	Detlef Kletzin	ASK forward Frankfurt / O. I.	+ 0:43 min
3.	Ladislav Ferebauer	ČSSR	+ 0:53 min
4th	Milan Sel	ČSSR	+ 1:03 min
5.	Uwe Freese	SC Dynamo Berlin II	+ 3:27 min
6th	Hans-Joachim Meisch	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 3:27 min

Final score: Schmeißer DDR II Salan Drogan Schmeißer

Overall ratings

Yellow jersey (individual rating)

	driver	team	time
01.	Siegbert Schmeißer	GDR I	29:47:49 h
02.	Uwe Freese	SC Dynamo Berlin II	+ 01:13 min
03.	Bernard Kręczyński	Poland	+ 04:54 min
04th	Gottfried Preising	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 06:03 min
05.	Peter Koch	GDR II	+ 06:07 min
06th	Rainer Salan	GDR II	+ 06:30 min
07th	Andreas Petermann	GDR II	+ 07:41 min
08th.	Reinhard Langanke	SC Dynamo Berlin I	+ 09:50 min
09.	Ladislav Ferebauer	ČSSR	+ 10:55 min
10.	Dietmar Käbisch	SC DHfK Leipzig	+ 12:21 min
...
35.	Thilo Fuhrmann	ASK forward Frankfurt / O.	+ 38:26 min
36.	Hans-Peter Woe	SC Cottbus	+ 1:18:06 h

Blue jersey ( team )

	team	time
1.	GDR II	89:43:45 h
2.	SC Turbine Erfurt	+ 04:23 min
3.	SC Dynamo Berlin II	+ 08:03 min
4th	GDR I	+ 11:18 min
5.	SC Dynamo Berlin I	+ 27:59 min
6th	SC Karl-Marx-Stadt I	+ 29:31 min

Purple jersey (most active driver)

	driver	team	Points
1.	Rainer Salan	GDR II	23
2.	Uwe Freese	SC Dynamo Berlin II	21st
3.	Bernd Drogan	GDR I	17th

Green jersey ( best climber )

	driver	team	Points
1.	Bernd Drogan	GDR I	20th
2.	Juliusz Firkowski	Poland	18th
3.	Hans-Joachim Hartnick	GDR I	17th

White jersey (young driver)

	driver	team	Points
1.	Siegbert Schmeißer	GDR I	17th
2.	Uwe Freese	SC Dynamo Berlin II	16
3.	Peter Koch	GDR II	09

annotation

1. ↑ The stage time credits are already included in all times.
2. ↑ also counted as a Harz tour

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1977 . Sportverlag Berlin , 1976, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 200-201 .
• New Germany . No. 194-200 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany , 1976, ISSN  0323-3375 .
• Fritz Kirchner, Horst Propp: 1050 years of Nordhausen. Contributions to the history of the city of Nordhausen / published by the council of the city of Nordhausen on behalf of the commission for research into the history of the local labor movement at the district leadership of the SED. Nordhausen City Council, Nordhausen 1977, DNB 800809793 , OCLC 612355538 , p. 4.
• Lutz Jödicke: From the radio archive  : Nordhausen and the GDR tour. In: Stadtarchiv Nordhausen (Ed.): Nordhäuser News: Südharzer Heimatblätter . Volume 27, No. 2. Iffland, Nordhausen 2018, 1030841349 in the GVK - Common Union Catalog , pp. 20-21.