Association of German Cyclists

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Association of German Cyclists V.
BDR logo
Founded 1884
Place of foundation Leipzig
president Rudolf Scharping
societies 2,444
Members 143.216
Association headquarters Frankfurt am Main
Homepage rad-net.de

The Association of German Cyclists e. V. ( BDR ) is the association for cyclists in the German Olympic Sports Confederation . It is based in Frankfurt am Main and is divided into 17 regional associations. The approximately 2,400 affiliated associations have a total of around 143,000 members (as of 2019). The BDR is a member of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and the European Union Européenne de Cyclisme (UEC).

tasks

The BDR regulates the activities of organized competitive and popular athletes. This includes the organization of training camps, competitions as well as the training of coaches and youth work. For participation in racing and popular sports events, the BDR issues start authorizations in the form of licenses and rating cards through its regional associations. Here, the BDR pays great attention to recognition as the sole representative association of all cyclists. That is why coordination and cooperation in sports operations with other cyclist associations is not always easy, for example in the field of artificial cycling with the RKB Solidarity or in the field of unicycle with the Unicycle Association Germany and the RKB Solidarity.

As part of the association's lobbying work, the BDR also supports the interests of cyclists and amateur cyclists in road traffic, but is not as involved in road traffic as, for example, the ADFC . For example, the BDR did not co- sign the petition against the obligation to use cycle lanes and did not publish a statement on it.

Disciplines

In competitive sports training / competition there are: road cycling , track cycling , cyclo-cross , artistic cycling , cycle ball , bicycle polo , BMX , Mountain Bike , Bike Trial and unicycle .

In the field of grassroots and recreational sports: cycling , cycling and country tours .

International events

Until 1999, the Association of German Cyclists held 38 UCI World Championships in various cycling disciplines. In 2003, the BDR organized rail world championships in Stuttgart and thus stepped in for the Chinese city of Shenzhen at short notice . The world championships planned there were canceled due to the SARS epidemic in Southeast Asia.

In February 2014, the BDR applied for the UCI Rail World Championships in 2019 or 2020 with a “three-step plan”. In 2020 , the World Championships were held in the Velodrom in Berlin . In 2017, the UEC European Track Championships and a run of the Track Cycling World Cup 2018/19 took place in Berlin .

Anti-doping

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Due to doping incidents in professional cycling, the BDR has been under special public scrutiny in the fight against doping like no other professional sports association for decades . In particular, President Sylvia Schenk and her successor Rudolf Scharping tried to gain more credibility in the anti-doping fight. The independent anti-doping commission convened by the BDR, to which the Olympic swimming champion Michael Groß belonged, stopped working on September 10, 2007 after just a few months due to a lack of concepts.

history

The beginnings

Official postcard of the XIX. Bundestag of the German Cyclists' Association in Cassel, 18. – 22. July 1902
BDR-Heinrich Stevens, here with racing cyclist Peter Günther , brought the World Championships to Germany in 1927

In 1881, German cycling associations met for the first time in Frankfurt am Main with the aim of founding an association. On August 1st of the same year the first German cycling magazine Das Velociped appeared , which was published by the Englishman THS Walker . After the establishment of the German Cyclists Association (DRB), the magazine became its official organ under the title Der Radfahrer . The association was finally founded on August 17, 1884 in Leipzig as an association of the German, German-Austrian and North German Velocipedist Association , which at that time had 2537 members.

In the following year, however, some associations split off again out of dissatisfaction and formed the General German Cyclists Association (ADRV) together with the association organ Der Deutschen Radfahrer . In 1886 the General Cyclists Union (ARU) was founded, which primarily wanted to promote cycling . While only associations were members of the DRB and ADRV, the ARU only consisted of personal members. From 1888 the DRB published its own magazine, the Federal Newspaper, which every member received free of charge. In 1891, the Saxon Cyclists' Association was founded, which remained as a regional association alongside the three major associations until it was brought into line in 1933. Until then, further regional cyclist associations were organized in the Association of German Cycling Associations (VDRV) from 1924 onwards .

In 1894 the DRB had around 22,000 members and joined the International Cyclists Association , the predecessor of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), which was founded in 1900. The association only represented amateur drivers and rejected professional sport . In addition, the members of the DRB were not allowed to take part in races in which professionals drove. Decades of conflicts over amateur and professional status between various associations followed, the most powerful of which was the Association of German Radrennbahnen (VDR), which the DRB joined in 1908. In 1895 the first world championships were held in Germany.

In 1910, because of an alleged wrong decision at the rail world championships against the German driver Henry Mayer , the VDR / DRB had a rift with the UCI, so that German drivers did not take part in the UCI world championships for two years and the Germans organized their own world championships. In 1913 an agreement was reached. In 1911, a major tour of the country was held in Germany for the first time with the Tour across Germany.

Until 1933

In 1919 the DRB and ARU merged to form the Association of German Cyclists ; In the same year the German Cyclists Union was founded by cyclists who did not agree with the BDR's policy. In 1923 the association, which had around 100,000 members, was re-admitted to the UCI after being expelled as a result of the First World War . In 1926, long-term disputes between the BDR, the Association of Professional Riders and the VDR ended with the two associations joining the BDR, which now also received sovereignty over professional cycling. In 1927 the road world championships at the Nürburgring and the rail world championships in Cologne and Elberfeld took place in Germany , at the instigation of the BDR President Heinrich Stevens from Cologne, who was also Vice President of the UCI.

In 1923, the Federal Cyclist Monument was unveiled in the spa gardens of Bad Schmiedeberg , a memorial for those who fell in the First World War .

1933 to 1945

From 1938 to 1945 “Reichsradsportführer” Viktor Brack headed the association. He was executed as a war criminal in 1948

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists of BDR was on April 13, 1933, led by Ferry Ohrtmann into line , even before there was the relevant regulations. A total of 35 associations were dissolved. Its functions were taken over by the newly founded German Cyclists Association (DRV) and, from 1938, the specialist office 15 of the German Reich Association for physical exercises . Other cycling associations were banned and management positions were filled in accordance with the Aryan paragraph . The previous organ of the association, the Federal Newspaper , was renamed Der Deutsche Radfahrer . The previous editor-in-chief of the magazine Illustrierter Radrenn-Sport , organizer and promoter Erich Kroner , who was of Jewish descent, was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp , and died after his release. His successor was Fredy Budzinski , who soon had to vacate his post because of his non-Jewish wife after the Illus had merged with the association organ Der Deutsche Radfahrer . On the intercession of Carl Diem , Budzinski was able to work again for the association newspaper from 1938 to 1944 (publication discontinued), but no articles were allowed to appear under his name.

On January 1, 1934, the DRV issued new competition guidelines for six-day races: the driver's fees were standardized, it was no longer allowed to drive around the clock, and jersey advertising was prohibited. The “Sportpalastwalzer” was also no longer allowed to be played, since its composer Siegfried Translateur was a Jew. The new mode was not approved by either the drivers or the spectators, so that in 1934 the last two six-day races before the war were held in Germany.

From April 1, 1938 until the end of the Second World War , SS-Oberführer Viktor Brack acted as Reichsfachamtsleiter and now headed the BDR. In this function, Brack had false reports spread about the death of the racing cyclist Albert Richter ; whether he personally, as suspected, ordered the killing of the judge cannot be proven. As one of the main organizers of Nazi euthanasia , the so-called “ Aktion T4 ”, and of medical experiments in concentration camps , he was sentenced to death in the Nuremberg medical trial in 1947 and executed in 1948.

After the annexation of Austria , the Austrian Cyclists Association was incorporated into the DRV as Gau XVII Ostmark . With the outbreak of World War II , road races were greatly reduced and mainly criteria and track races were held. International professional races last took place in 1942.

1945 to 1989

With Act No. 5 of the American military government of May 31, 1945, the NSDAP and all its institutions and organizations were dissolved, and with it the German Cyclists Association . On November 21, 1948, the re-establishment of the BDR, which from 1969 only represented amateur athletes, the professionals again had their own association. At the beginning of March 1950, following a resolution by the UCI delegates, the BDR was re-admitted to the UCI with 49 votes in favor against 14 votes against.

Kurt Kühn , President of the BDR from 1950 to 1955, was a specialist in indoor cycling from 1933 to 1945 . His successor Gerhard Schulze was Reichsjugendfachwart in the National Socialist Reichsbund for physical exercises during the Nazi era and wrote in this capacity in 1940 in the association organ Der Deutsche Radfahrer : “Today every German recognizes that the inexhaustible source of life for securing the next generation in German sport is solely and exclusively the HJ is anchored. [...] In the Trinity we create body, mind and soul for those German people for the unity of protection and the immortal glory of the Greater German Reich. "

The association's body was the magazine Radsport in 1950 , which, like the German cyclist and the Illustrierte Radrenn-Sport, had previously been published by Kurt Stoof in the sports publishing house. The publishing house had moved from Berlin to Cologne after the war. The magazine was published there until 1985.

In 1951, for the first time after the war, German cyclists took part in the UCI World Championships and in 1952 in the Olympic Games, at the Olympic Games within an all-German team. 1954 World Road Championships took place in Solingen . 1956 in Melbourne for the first time an all-German cycling team with ten athletes started at the Olympic Games and won a bronze medal in the team ranking of the road race. Previously, qualification competitions were held in which it was decided which drivers from which part of Germany were allowed to start at the Olympics, which repeatedly led to bitter disputes. In 1958 the BDR rejected the application to run races for women, although women were allowed to compete in world championships from that year. It was not until 1967, despite massive protests by some officials, that women's racing was introduced in West Germany. The problems that women in the BDR had to struggle with in 1970 were made clear by the motions that the spontaneously formed women's speaker group submitted to the federal general assembly. It was demanded that no more races less than 30 kilometers in length should be allowed, wheel changes should be allowed in the race, four selection races should be held each year and a spokeswoman for the Federal General Assembly should be able to vote.

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , two independent teams from BDR (13 starters) and GDR (17 starters) competed together under a German flag with Olympic rings. At the awards ceremony, the final chorus from Beethoven's ninth symphony was played instead of the hymns. The BDR athletes won a silver medal in the team pursuit after the team was initially disqualified for "unauthorized pushing".

In 1970, the then BDR President Erwin Hauck was suspended from the Federal General Assembly of the BDR because he had accused national drivers of doping abuse and they then refused to wear the national jersey. In the following year, the BDR recorded debts of around 50,000 marks, which, however, could be reduced within three years. Professional cycling was in a crisis, so that no independent German road championships could be held and these were therefore held together with Luxembourg and Switzerland . In 1972 the two German teams started for the first time as sovereign teams from the BDR and GDR with their own flags and anthems. At this point in time, cycling between the two German states had almost completely ceased. In 1978 there were again world championships in Germany, the track competitions in Munich , the road competitions on the Nürburgring and in Brauweiler near Cologne.

From 1989

Sylvia Schenk headed the BDR from 2001 to 2004

In 1989, with around 101,000 members, the BDR had exceeded the 100,000 mark for the first time, which was the last time in 1923 (around 103,000). In December of the same year, a first meeting between the BDR and the German Cycling Association of the GDR (DRSV) took place in order to coordinate further cooperation. At the UCI rail world championships in 1990 in Maebashi , the presidents of the BDR, Werner Göhner , and the DRSV, Wolfgang Schoppe , symbolically removed the bars between the driver's boxes of the two German teams. On December 8, 1990, the five regional associations of the new federal states joined the BDR. In 1993 the separation between amateur and professional athletes was lifted.

From 2001 to 2004 Sylvia Schenk was the first female president of the BDR. At the UCI-Bahn-World Championships 2003 in Stuttgart there was a scandal in the team pursuit : The German four-wheeler did not qualify because the Thuringian drivers Jens Lehmann , Daniel Becke , Sebastian Siedler and Christian Bach had refused to join the Berliners Robert Bartko and Guido Fulst to start because Lehmann had not been nominated for the individual pursuit .

Schenk resigned in 2004 after controversies with the then sports director, Burckhard Bremer , because she was unable to assert herself with a more transparent course in competitive cycling. The trigger for the development was the case of the driver Christian Lademann , who had abnormal blood values before the Olympic Summer Games in Athens , but Bremer had kept this from the President. At the level of the World Cycling Association UCI , Schenk publicly criticized that z. B. the future President Pat McQuaid received money from the UCI before his election. In 2013 she reapplied as president of the association, but was defeated in the election against Rudolf Scharping , who took up a third term.

In 2009, the BDR celebrated its 125th anniversary in Leipzig , where the association was founded in 1884. The design of this celebration was controversial: While the former president Sylvia Schenk had not been invited, drivers like Rudi Altig , Jan Ullrich and Dietrich Thurau , who were known to have doped, were on the guest list. Before the celebration there was a presidential election, in which Scharping stood for the second time, his opponent was the former racing driver Dieter Berkmann , who was supported by some regional associations. Scharping was re-elected despite strong criticism - among other things, he was accused of having extended the contract with the controversial sports director Bremer. In 2013, the former president Sylvia Schenk ran against Scharping in the presidential election, but was defeated in a fighting vote.

In November 2016, both Deputy President Peter W. Streng and Vice President Manfred Schwarz, who was responsible for the external image of the BDR, resigned from their offices. Streng had come under fire for sharing xenophobic content on his Facebook page . Schwarz was accused by the association of abusing the contacts he had received through his press work for political influence. In his e-mails via a distribution list, the crime of and problems with refugees and foreigners were repeatedly discussed. This was preceded by protests from regional associations and members who wanted to declare their exit.

In April 2017, Rudolf Scharping was elected President of the BDR for the third time. Former cyclist Marcel Wüst , who will be Vice President Communication and Marketing, joined the Executive Committee . Wüst was followed by actor and former racing driver Uwe Rohde in April 2019 .

Federal Chairs & Presidents

President since 2005: Rudolf Scharping (2017)
Federal Chairperson
  • 1884-1893: Carl Hindenburg
  • 1894–1896: Rudolf Vogel
  • 1896–1897: Ludwig Holtbuer
  • 1897–1914: Theodor Boeckling
  • 1915-1922: Paul Martin
  • 1923–1924: Heinrich Stevens
  • 1924–1927: Hans Totschek
  • 1927–1928: Georg Schweinitz
  • 1928–1929: Carl Moshagen
  • 1929–1933: Franz Eggert
Association leader DRV
President

Regional associations

  • Badischer Radsportverband e. V.
  • Bavarian Cycling Association V.
  • Berliner Radsportverband e. V.
  • Brandenburgischer Radsportverband e. V.
  • Bremer Radsportverband e. V.
  • Cycling Association Hamburg e. V.
  • Hessischer Radfahrerverband e. V.
  • Cycling Association Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e. V.
  • Cycling Association of Lower Saxony e. V.
  • Cycling Association of North Rhine-Westphalia e. V.
  • Radsportverband Rheinland-Pfalz e. V.
  • Saarländischer Radfahrerbund e. V.
  • Sächsischer Radfahrerbund e. V.
  • Regional cycling association Saxony-Anhalt e. V.
  • Cycling Association Schleswig-Holstein e. V.
  • Thuringian Cycling Association V.
  • Württembergischer Radsportverband e. V.

Gallery of Presidium Members (selection)

(As of April 2019)

See also

Web links

Commons : Bund Deutscher Radfahrer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

Individual evidence

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