Bruno Zieger

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Bruno Zieger (center) with his pacemaker Horst Aurich (left) at the 1956 championship award

Bruno Zieger (born July 25, 1925 in Erfurt ; † January 14, 2009 there ) was a German racing cyclist .

Career

Bruno Zieger started for "Fortuna Erfurt" and initially started in all disciplines of track cycling. He was a professional driver for a while, but switched back to the amateurs. Later was a specialist in standing races . In this discipline he was three times GDR champion in a row from 1955 to 1957, his pacemaker was the Leipzig Horst Aurich . He won six other titles in other disciplines, four of them at the Eastern Zone Championships in 1949 (in tandem , sprint , time trial and team pursuit ); In 1950 he was GDR champion in two-man team driving with Georg Stoltze . At the GDR tour in 1952, he finished third in the overall standings after winning the Magdeburg-Erfurt stage over 240 kilometers with a ten-minute lead. He won two more stages and led his team captain Erich Schulz to victory. He had added to his collection of titles in 1949 when he and the BSG KWU Erfurt won the then East Zone Championship in the 100-kilometer team time trial. In this discipline he also won the title at the student world championship in 1951 (with Lothar Meister I , Edgar Schatz , Georg Stoltze, Detlef Zabel and Karl Hesse).

At the end of the 1940s and the beginning of the 1950s, Zieger, who had taken over the standing equipment from Erich Metze , who died in a fatal accident at the Andreasried cycling track in Erfurt in 1952, drove as a professional. In 1955, professional cycling was abolished in the GDR , and Zieger was re-amateurized in March 1955. In 1957 he was at the World Criterium of the stayers (forerunner of the 1958 world championships for amateur stayers) in Leipzig 8 behind winner Pizzali from Italy.

Professional

Initially, Zieger worked as a painter / wallpaperer in his apprenticeship. Even after the end of his active racing career, Zieger remained connected to cycling and was director of the Andreasried cycling track for over three decades.

Private

He was the father of the rock singer Petra Zieger .

literature

  • Stayers, stars and sensations: Since 1885 Andreasried Erfurt , brochure, Erfurt 2008

Web links

Commons : Bruno Zieger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SC Turbine Erfurt, Cycling Section (Ed.): Erfurter Radsport Almanach . Erfurt 1983, p. 43 .
  2. ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 12/1955 . Sportverlag, Berlin 1955, p. 11 .
  3. ↑ Rene Jacobs et al. a. (Ed.): VELO 1957 . 4th year. Brussels 1957, p. 251 .
  4. ^ General Secretariat of the Cycling Section of the GDR (ed.): Illustrated Radrennsport . No. 9/1950 . Berlin 1950, p. 8 .
personal data
SURNAME Zieger, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 2009
Place of death Erfurt