BRC migratory bird 1901
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| Founded: | November 10, 1901 |
| Club colors: | Black-red-blue |
| Association headquarters: | House of Sports Berlin-Kreuzberg |
| Website: | www.brc-zugvogel.de |
The Berliner Radfahrer Club Zugvogel 1901 is a Berlin cycling club. The traditional club is primarily dedicated to cycling (road, rail, MTB) and popular sports (RTF, everyone racing). The club is the sponsoring association for the benefit initiative We donate life - cyclists for bone marrow donation.
history
founding
On the initiative of the racing organizer Eugen Schröder, the Berlin Cyclist Club Zugvogel was founded in 1901 on November 10, 1901 in Schöneberg . One of the founding members was a strong amateur racing driver of those years, the 22-year-old carpenter journeyman Otto Goetzke . With successes in the long road bike races Berlin- Cologne , Berlin-Königsberg and Rund um Berlin, Goetzke ensured the young club's first victories. With him as captain, the team of the BRC Zugvogel became German team champions in 1910 in Görlitz and in 1914 in Augsburg . After these initial successes, Zugvogel established itself at the forefront of Berlin and German amateur cycling. In addition to the team successes, the migratory birds were also victorious in individual races, such as Artur Frömming's success in the legendary distance bike ride Vienna-Berlin in 1912 .
The club member Otto Männel, who came to Berlin in 1906 and was active as a hit until the 1920s, also had a successful career. After his active time, he was chairman of the association for a long time. Although he was subjected to reprisals by the Nazis in the 1930s and was even banned from working (he was a civil servant), he continued to work for Zugvogel. He also took care of the revival of the club in 1950. As an athlete, he was the first migratory bird in the Olympic Games . In Stockholm in 1912 he finished 41st in the road race.
New beginning
After the Second World War , the association's inventory was destroyed and the members lost sight of each other for years. But shortly after the new beginning, some migratory bird members found their way back to active sport. Werner Egerland became German speed skating champion for the second time in 1947, and riders like Gerhard Bartkowski and Heinz Brandt have already achieved successes in cycling races again. On December 10, 1950, the BRC migratory bird was brought back to life. In addition to sporting activities, the BRC Zugvogel has now also become a well-known organizer of bike races. In addition to cross-country races in Berlin's Viktoriapark and the Rundstreckenrennen Rund in Kreuzberg , track races and cinder track races were also held.
construction of the Berlin wall
The club, now based in Berlin-Kreuzberg , brought together athletes from both the western sectors and the eastern districts of the divided city. The construction of the Berlin Wall cut off many members of the club and made it difficult for the remaining athletes to participate in races outside of West Berlin . The association's board of directors in those years around the first chairman Günter Kunzendorf, his deputy Walter Rindfleisch and the sports director Walter Fechner ensured a restructuring of the sports operations under the conditions of the walled city of Berlin. With riders like Ortwin Czarnowski and Karl-Heinz Muddemann, who won the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour in the national jersey, and Michael Becker , who in 1968 was part of the German Olympic team together with Czarnowski, the BRC Zugvogel once again became a top club in amateur cycling. 1970 was the club's most successful year. After the four-man with drivers Hanno Podbielski, Michael Becker, Manfred Mücke and Jürgen Kraft won the German championship, Hanno Podbielski also became German mountain champion. From 1978 Walter Gebhardt worked at Zugvogel as a tainer and was its sporting director. Under the A-trainer Gebhardt, the Zugvogel junior quad became German champion and youth cup winner in 1981 in the line-up of Sven You, Uwe Römer, Thomas Gustke and Stefan Vonhof.
1990s - mountain bike
Reunification gave Berlin cycling a great boost overall. The starting fields increased enormously, sometimes over 300 amateurs went to the racing courses. With the tradition of cycling cross , the new cycling discipline mountain bike established itself very quickly at the BRC Zugvogel. Lutz Schäfer was one of the first German riders who were able to place themselves at the top of the World Cup at the beginning of the 1990s and Regina Marunde was at the Olympic premiere of mountain biking in Atlanta and took seventh place. Hanka and Stefan Kupfernagel and Cornelia Dreher also gave the club German championship titles.
Women cycling
From 1995 women's cycling was a mainstay of the club. An international cycling Bundesliga team was formed with Hanka Kupfernagel at the top, which has won the Bundesliga championship several times under different names. Many riders of international standing such as Sanna Lehtimaki, Susanne Ljungskog , Mari Holden , Elena Weigold, Sandra Missbach, Cornelia Dreher, Birgit Hollmann, Ina-Yoko Teutenberg and Regina Marunde competed for the team. The highlight was the 2000 Olympic silver medal by Hanka Kupfernagel in Sydney .
Current
In the last few years, the club has been devoting itself to racing and popular sport and the area of amateur racing . He is the sponsoring association for the charity campaign We donate life - cyclists for bone marrow donation.
successes
- German champion in team driving in 1910, 1914 and 1970
- 5 Olympic participations (one Olympic silver medal by Hanka Kupfernagel in Sydney 2000)
- over 30 German championship titles
- 3 overall victories in the women's cycling Bundesliga
- Several overall victories in cycling tours (such as the Bavaria Tour, Rhineland-Palatinate Tour, Tour de Berlin)
- Awarded the bronze star of sport in 2007 for the campaign We donate life
Well-known athletes / officials
- Otto Goetzke - among other things, three-time winner of the classic bike tour around Berlin
- Artur Frömming - Winner at Vienna-Berlin 1912
- Otto Männel - Olympic participant in 1912
- Werner Egerland - two-time German speed skating champion and later a successful entrepreneur
- Günter Kunzendorf - long-time chairman and founder of Kunzendorf Spedition
- Walter Fechner - longstanding chairman and race organizer, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
- Ortwin Czarnowski - Olympian 1968
- Jürgen Kraft - national cyclist and later professional cyclist
- Lutz Schäfer - Germany Cup winner mountain bike
- Stefan Kupfernagel - German champion U23 bike cross and MTB, later professional cyclist
- Hanka Kupfernagel - multiple world and German champion, now professional cyclist