August Brandes (cyclist)

August Brandes

To person
Nickname	Pimples
Date of birth	May 1, 1903
date of death	1989
nation	German Empire
discipline	Road / rail (endurance)
Societies)
1921-1926 1926-1927 1931	Hawa-Viktoria Hannover RV Zugvogel Hannover RV Zugvogel Hannover
Team (s)
1928-1930	Opel
Last updated: June 10, 2017

August Brandes (born May 1, 1903 in Egestorf ; † 1989 in Braunschweig ) was a German professional racing cyclist and was one of the most successful racing cyclists in Hanover from the mid-1920s to the early 1930s .

biography

August Brandes grew up in the small town of Egestorf. He was nicknamed the pimple because his father worked as a steiger in Barsinghausen and his tool was a pimple . After finishing school, Brandes went to Hanover at the age of 18 because of the better earning potential. There he worked as a locksmith and as an electrician .

In 1921 Brandes joined the Hawa-Viktoria Hannover cycling club , and in 1926 he switched to RV Zugvogel . Even as a youth driver he achieved his first successes. In 1925, as an amateur, he won several races such as Quer durch Westfalen , Rund um Hannover , the Great North Sea Prize and the track race Silver Owl von Peine .

In 1928 Brandes became a professional cyclist and started at the road world championships in Budapest , but had to give up the race due to several tire defects. In 1930 he won the first stage of the Tour of Germany with start and finish in Berlin and was part of the team that won the team time trial. Due to poor financial conditions in German professional cycling, he allowed himself to be re-amateurized in 1931 and in 1931 he became German champion in the 300 kilometer road race for amateurs in Chemnitz . He also drove races on the Hanover Velodrome . At the road world championships in Copenhagen in the same year he was eleventh in the road race and thus the best German. In 1932 he ended his cycling career.

As early as 1931 August Brandes took over a bicycle shop in Hanover on Celler Strasse, which he ran until 1971. It was taken over by his son and still exists today (as of 2017).

successes

1930

• a stage and team time trial Tour of Germany

1931

• German amateur champion - road racing

literature

• Walter Euhus : Spoke sport . Hanover's historical cycling , Langenhagen: Die-Speiche-Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-9807011-0-7 .

Web links

• August Brandes in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Bicycle Brandes website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Karin Brockmann, Stefan Brüdermann , Walter Euhus , Thomas Schwark : Particularly successful Hanoverian racing cyclists , in this: Hanover goes cycling. History - Sport - Everyday life , Braunschweig: Kuhle Buchverlag Braunschweig, 1999, ISBN 978-3-923696- 90-1 and ISBN 3-923696-90-6 , pp. 89-93; here: p. 90
2. ↑ Euhus, Spoke Sport , p. 122.
3. ↑ Euhus, Spoke Sport, p. 122 f.
4. ↑ Euhus, Spoke Sport, p. 122 f.
5. ↑ Euhus, spoke sport , S. 128th