Bernhard Trefflich
Bernhard Trefflich (born June 9, 1924 in Weimar ; † May 15, 2011 ) was the first German racing cyclist to win a stage in the International Peace Tour .
Before his athletic career
Before Bernhard Trefflich started cycling, he attended elementary school in his hometown until 1938 . He took part in the Second World War as a soldier and in 1947 passed the master's examination as a master potter .
Athletic career
He competed in his first major bike race in 1949 as a driver of the company sports association (BSG) KWU Weimar in the Ostzone Tour, where he came 7th. He won his first major victory a year later on the GDR tour . In the same year he also won the traditional one-day race around Berlin .
In 1951 he moved to the BSG unit Weimar , advanced to the cycling championship class and was accepted into the GDR national team. For the first time he took part in the stage race Internationale Friedensfahrt (International Peace Tour) and finished in 15th place. By 1954 he had competed in what was then the longest international stage race four times. In 1952 he was ninth as the best GDR driver, and in 1953 he won a stage for the GDR team for the first time. On his last peace run in 1954, he went into the race indisposed from the start and was only 55 as the worst GDR driver. In the same year, Trefflich also contested his only world championship. Of the six GDR participants, he achieved the second-best result with 49th place behind Gustav-Adolf Schur (6th). In addition to the Peace Ride and the World Championship, Trefflich also took part in two other international stage races in 1956. During the Tour of Belgium he was the captain of the GDR team and won the mountain classification. At the Tour of Yugoslavia he won the overall ranking.
At the national level, in 1953, Trefflich moved from Weimar to the BSG Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt. That year he was GDR champion in the individual road race and in the team competition. After his victory in the GDR tour in 1950, he started another four GDR tours until 1955, in which he was successful in 1953 and 1954 with fourth places each. In 1955 the BSG cycling section was taken over by SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt . By the end of his sports career, Trefflich had won several GDR road races: 1955 Around Vogtland, 1956 the Cottbus Triangle Race, Around Altmark and Around the Potash Mines. He achieved his last national victory in 1957 at the Rund um Görlitz. In 1958, Trefflich took part in the GDR tour and the GDR road championship, but no longer made it into the top 20. He achieved his best result with eighth place at the Grand Diamond Prize. After participating in the Berlin-Leipzig road race and the Erich Schulz memorial race in 1959, Trefflich ended his cycling career. He was honored several times as " Honored Master of Sports ".
After his athletic career
After Trefflich had turned down offers to work as a trainer for the GDR national cycling team, he worked again as a stove fitter in Weimar. 1958 left the GDR out of political conviction and last lived in Hanover-Wettbergen .
literature
- Klaus Ullrich , every time in May . Sportverlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-328-00177-8
- Neues Deutschland , ISSN 0323-3375, born 1949–1959
- Cycling Week (Ed. Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR), No. 44/1957, page 4
- New Germany , short portrait on April 15, 1953, p. 6
Web links
- Bernhard Trefflich in the Radsportseiten.net database
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Excellent, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German racing cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weimar |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 2011 |