Buffalo Stadium
The Buffalo Stadium (French: Stade Buffalo ) was a sports stadium in Montrouge near Paris .
history
Buffalo Stadium got its name in memory of the demolished Buffalo Velodrome . It opened with a boxing match on September 24, 1922. It had a cycling track and was used for football , rugby and boxing matches.
The 24-hour race Bol d'Or was held there in 1924, 1927 and 1928 . On May 19, 1947, the future cycling world champion and Tour de France winner Louison Bobet won his first professional race here, the Circuit de Boucles de la Seine , which ended after 280 kilometers in the stadium. Around 40,000 spectators, including the journalist Ernest Hemingway , saw the boxing match for the world championship title on September 24, 1922 between the French Georges Carpentier and his compatriot Battling Siki , who was born in Senegal ; Siki won the fight, becoming the first world boxing champion to come from Africa.
On 10 May 1940 commencing western campaign of the German Wehrmacht , and on May 13 to announce in Paris figurehead of the French authorities:
"German citizens, Saarlanders, Danzigers and foreigners with an unclear nationality, but of German origin, living in the Seine department, must follow the following instructions [...]: the men on May 14, 1940 [to] the Buffalo Stadium; the women on May 15, 1940 [in the] Vélodrome d'Hiver . "
About the conditions in the Buffalo Stadium, in which, among other things, the draftsman Horst Rosenthal was temporarily housed, it was said in Le Figaro on August 15, 1940:
"A chain of helmeted riot police armed with rifles in khaki-brown uniforms has formed around the gray and elongated concrete wall that surrounds the Buffalo Stadium and shields the extensive sports area, the stands and the wide aisles from the eyes of the curious."
The writer Kurt Stern was also interned in the Buffalo Stadium . He wrote a diary about his days there.
After the war, the stadium was used for political gatherings, especially for the peace movement and the French communist party.
In 1957 the stadium was demolished. A square named after him and a street are reminiscent of the former location.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Louison Bobet on universalis.fr (French)
- ↑ Battling Siki ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on uapress.com
- ↑ Battling Siki: premier africain champion du Monde de boxe on saintlouisdusenegal.com (French)
- ↑ a b Quoted from Pnina Rosenberg: Mickey orphelin: la courte vie de Horst Rosenthal / The orphan Micky Mouse, or: the short life of Horst Rosenthal , in: Anne Grynberg; Johanna Linsler (ed.): L 'irréparable: itinéraires d'artistes et d'amateurs d'art juifs, réfugiés du “Troisième Reich” en France / Irreparable: The lives of Jewish artists and art connoisseurs on the run from the “Third Reich “In France , publications of the Magdeburg coordination office, Magdeburg, 2013, ISBN 978-3-9811367-6-0 , p. 349 ff. (French version) and 368 ff. (German version), p. 374
- ↑ Kurt Stern, Diary (May 9 – July 29, 1940) (French). Kurt Stern's diaries are also available in German: What will happen to us? Diaries of internment in 1939 and 1940. Foreword by Christa Wolf. Structure, Berlin 2006. ISBN 3-351-02624-2 (Appendix: Letters from Anna Seghers, Gustav Regulator, etc.)
- ^ Jean-Pierre A. Bernard: Paris Rouge 1944–1964. Editions Champ Vallon 1993, ISBN 2876731177 .
Web links
- Video of the boxing match between Georges Carpentier and Battling Siki on September 24, 1922 on dailymotion.com
- Stade Buffalo durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale on ajpn.org (French)
Coordinates: 48 ° 48 ′ 41.7 ″ N , 2 ° 19 ′ 19.3 ″ E