Altonaer Bicycle Club from 1869/80

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The Altona Bicycle Club from 1869/80 (ABC) is the oldest cycling club in the world. It was founded on April 17, 1869 under the name Eimsbüttler Velozipeden-Reit-Club in Eimsbüttel , a former rural community near Hamburg, among others by Harro Feddersen , who is considered the first bicycle dealer in Germany. In 1881, when high bikes were already modern, the club changed its name to Altonaer Bicycle Club . Initially, only public driving and artificial cycling on the Velociped (high-speed foot) were operated. Later other disciplines such as track cycling, road racing, cycling polo and cycling ball were added.

The ABC cycling festivals held a special position; they often served charitable purposes, but were also major social events for the bourgeoisie. The association set the tone above all in cycling . The ABC became temporarily well known through its first chairman Gregers Nissen , who as a cycling official and German bicycle pioneer campaigned for cycle paths, among other things.

In the 1980s, the then Federal President Karl Carstens honored the club for its special merits in cycling. Since there were not enough offspring for the bike ball game, the number of members has fallen sharply since the 1990s. In 2001 the ABC was deleted from the Hamburg register of associations after it had no longer been able to prove its non-profit status since 1996.

The ABC was re-established in August 2013. Today's ABC sets sporty accents in racing cycling and is particularly active in the social and cultural history of bicycles and cycling.

Web links

literature

  • The origin and development of the Altonaer Bicycle Club 1869/80 . ABC, 1894.
  • Lars Amenda: Altonaer Bicycle Club from 1869/80. An association makes bicycle history . Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-062242-7
  • Oliver Leibbrand: On the steel horse through Altona / Ottensen . in: Out and about in Ottensen . ed. Ottensener Stadtteilarchiv, Hamburg / Altona 2010, pp. 38–42
  • Oliver Leibbrand: On the history of civil cycling in the German Empire. The Altona Bicycle Club from 1869/80 - the oldest bicycle club in the world . In: SportZeiten, Sport in History, Culture and Society . 8th year 2008, issue 3, pp. 79-105

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The origin and development of the Altonaer Bicycle Club 1869/80 . 1894, p. 5 ff.
  2. ↑ Lars Amenda: Harro Feddersen - cycling pioneer and bicycle dealer , September 11, 2017
  3. ^ Minutes of the Velocipede Club, General Assembly of Wednesday, October 12, 1881.
  4. ^ Letter from the Hamburger Sportbund to the ABC office, April 16, 1996 (HSB, AZ: ABC / 0190)
  5. ^ Minutes of the founding and general meeting, August 31, 2013.