August Lehr
August Lehr (born February 26, 1871 in Frankfurt am Main , † July 15, 1921 in Ludwigslust ) was a German racing cyclist .
August Lehr, a businessman by trade, began his career as an amateur racing driver while still on the high-bike. From 1888 to 1894 he won the German championship seven times. In 1888, at the age of 18, Lehr in England, the “Lion's Den”, won the English high-cycling championships (unofficial world championship over an English mile ), which was also the 240th victory on an Opel bike. In 1891 he was the best driver in the world based on the number of victories. In 1893 Lehr switched to the Niederrad , a year later he became world champion in Antwerp and thus the first German world champion in cycling .
Then Lehr received invitations to races in many European countries, was able to record a total of 260 victories (according to another source 227), but did not earn his living from cycling. That is why he decided in 1898 to retire from active cycling.
In 1909, the popular sportsman in lowered Berlin the starting flag for the first Berlin Six Day Race . In 1921, Lehr suffered a gastric bleeding during a rowing tour on the Mecklenburg Lakes , from which he died a few days later.
When the Waldstadion was built in 1925 in Lehr's hometown of Frankfurt , along with a 400-meter-long cycling track , the brothers Adam and Fritz von Opel had a bronze monument erected there, created by Emil Hub . In 2005, during the renovation of the Frankfurt Waldstadion for the soccer world championships , the monument disappeared without a trace except for one arm.
literature
- Hans Borowik : 300 racing drivers in one volume , Berlin 1937.
- Adolf Klimanschewsky: The unleashed world champion , Berlin 1955.
- Helmer Boelsen : The history of the cycling world championship , Bielefeld 2007 ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Borowik: 300 racing drivers in one volume . Deutscher Schriftenverlag, Berlin 1937, p. 32 .
- ↑ Emil Hub on kunst-im-oefflichen-raum-frankfurt.de
- ↑ Boelsen, p. 7 (PDF; 969 kB)
Web links
1893 Arthur A. Zimmerman | 1894 August Lehr | 1895 Jaap Eden | 1896 Harry Reynolds | 1897 Edwin Schrader | 1898 Paul Albert | 1899 Thomas Summersgill | 1900 Alphonse Didier-Nauts | 1901 Émile Maitrot | 1902 Charles Piard | 1903 Arthur L. Reed | 1904 Marcus Hurley | 1905 Jimmy S. Benyon | 1906 Francesco Verri | 1907 Jean Devoissoux | 1908 Victor Johnson | 1909, 1910, 1911, 1913 William Bailey | 1912 Donald McDougall | 1914–1919 not held | 1920 Maurice Peeters | 1921 Henry Brask Andersen | 1922 Thomas Johnson | 1923, 1924 Lucien Michard | 1925 Jaap Meijer | 1926 Avanti Martinetti | 1927 Mathias Engel | 1928 Willy Falck Hansen | 1929 Antoine Mazairac | 1930 Louis Gérardin | 1931 Helge Harder | 1932 Albert Richter | 1933 Jacobus van Egmond | 1934 Benedetto Pola | 1935 Toni Merkens | 1936 Arie van Vliet | 1937, 1938 Jef van de Vijver | 1939 Jan Derksen | 1940–1945 not held | 1946 Oscar Plattner ; | 1947 Reginald Harris | 1948 Mario Ghella | 1949 Sydney Patterson | 1950 Maurice Verdeun | 1951, 1952 Enzo Sacchi | 1953 Marino Morettini | 1954 Cyril Peacock | 1955 Giuseppe Ogna | 1956, 1957 Michel Rousseau | 1958, 1959 Valentino Gasparella | 1960 Sante Gaiardoni | 1961, 1962 Sergio Bianchetto | 1963 Patrick Sercu | 1964 Pierre Trentin | 1965 Omar Pchakadze | 1966, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975 Daniel Morelon | 1968 Luigi Borghetti | 1972 not held | 1974, 1978 Anton Tkáč | 1976 not held | 1977 Jürgen Geschke | 1979, 1983, 1985, 1987 Lutz Heßlich | 1980 not held | 1981, 1982 Sergei Kopylov | 1984 not held | 1986 Michael Huebner | 1988 not held | 1989, 1990 Bill Huck | 1991 Jens Fiedler
(Afterwards the separation between amateurs and professionals was lifted. Further results under world champion in sprint )
1895 August Lehr | 1896, 1897, 1921 Willy Arend | 1898 Franz Verheyen | 1908 Richard Scheuermann | 1909 Otto Meyer | 1910, 1919, 1920, 1923 Walter Rütt | 1914 Eugen Stabe | 1922, 1924, 1926 Willy Lorenz | 1925 Willy Gottfried | 1927 Alex Fricke | 1928, 1929, 1932 Mathias Engel | 1930, 1931 Peter Steffes | 1932–1939 Albert Richter | 1940, 1941 Jean Schorn | 1942 Toni Merkens | 1946–1947, 1949–1954 Georg Voggenreiter | 1948 Werner Bunzel | 1955–1960, 1962–1965 Werner Potzernheim | 1961 Günther Ziegler | 1966, 1967 Hans-Peter Kanters | 1969 Peter Glemser | 1975 Udo Hempel | 1976 Horst Schütz | 1992–1996, 1998–1999, 2002 Jens Fiedler | 1997 Eyk Pokorny | 2000, 2004 Jan van Eijden | 2001, 2005 Stefan Nimke | 2003 René Wolff | 2006, 2007 Matthias John | 2008, 2013 Robert Förstemann | 2009 Carsten Bergemann | 2010 Tobias Wächter | 2011, 2012, 2014 Stefan Bötticher | 2015, 2016, 2017 Maximilian Levy | 2018, 2019 Maximilian Dörnbach
The sprint was not consistently carried out at the German Railway Championships.
1890, 1891 Alwin father | 1892 Jean Schaaf | 1893, 1894 August Lehr | 1895 Thomas Schlueter | 1896 Fritz Opel | 1897 August fabric rain | 1898, 1899 Paul Albert | 1900, 1902 Albert Leopold | 1901 Willy Kritzmann | 1903 Walter Engelmann | 1904, 1913 Christel Rode | 1905 Otto Küpferling | 1906 Bruno Götze | 1907–1910 Karl Neumer | 1911 Otto Gosche | 1912 Max Hansen | 1914 Richard Gottschalk | 1917, 1919, 1920 Fritz Schrefeld | 1918 Arthur Hensch | 1921 Johannes Drohten | 1922 Walter Heidenreich | 1923–1925 Paul Oszmella | 1926, 1927 Mathias Engel | 1928 Hans Bernhardt | 1929 Fritz Fliegel | 1930 Robert Trauden | 1931, 1932 Hans Dasch | 1933–1936 Toni Merkens | 1937 Heinz Hasselberg | 1938 Jean Schorn | 1939 Gerhard Purann | 1940, 1947 Willy Schertle | 1941, 1942, 1944 Werner Bunzel | 1943 Georg Voggenreiter | 1948, 1949 Willy Trost | 1950–1954 Werner Potzernheim | 1955 Günther Ziegler | 1956 Heinz Lauff | 1957 Rudi Altig | 1958 Sigi Walther | 1959, 1960 Günter Kaslowski | 1961, 1962 Ehrenfried Rudolph | 1963–1965 Willi Fuggerer | 1968–1971 Jürgen Barth | 1972–1974, 1976 Dieter Berkmann | 1975 Rainer Klenner | 1977, 1979, 1983 Gerhard Scheller | 1978 Dieter Giebken | 1980–1982, 1984 Fredy Schmidtke | 1985, 1989 Hans-Jürgen Greil | 1986, 1988, 1990 Markus Nagel | 1987 Frank Weber | 1991 Jens Fiedler
Further results under German Masters in Sprint (Elite) .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lehr, August |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German racing cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 26, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main , |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 1921 |
| Place of death | Ludwigslust |