Burckhard Bremer

Burckhard Bremer (2017)

Burckhard Bremer (born December 20, 1946 in Berlin ) is a former German cyclist and today's cycling official.

Career as an active athlete

Burckhard Bremer began his cycling career in 1961 at the BRC final spurt in Berlin . In 1973 he took second place in the Berlin four-stage trip . In the same year he became German champion in the amateur road race , with a wafer-thin lead over Jürgen Kraft . The jury's decision to award the victory to Bremer was controversial: TV recordings are said to have shown that Kraft was the actual winner. However, the racing committee did not recognize the film evidence and decided in favor of Bremer as the first. With the street four of the NRVg. Luisenstadt Berlin ( Harry Seidel , Roger Poulain and Peter Lindow ) he won gold in the team time trial in 1973 and silver in 1971 and 1974 at German championships .

Bremer started several times in the International Peace Tour , the Tour de l'Avenir and the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour .

Career as a functionary

After the end of his active cycling career, Bremer became involved as an official in cycling. He was the sporting director of the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour and the Regio-Tour as well as the commissioner of the Federation of German Cyclists (BDR) and the UCI World Cycling Association . Between 1987 and 1991 he was chairman of the BDR sports court , and in 1997 he succeeded Fritz Ramseier as federal sports warden . This honorary position became the full-time post of competitive sports director, which Bremer held from 2001. In these functions he organized a run of the Track Cycling World Cup in 1998 and the UCI Track World Championships in 1999 , both events in the Berlin Velodrom , and initiated another application by the BDR for the UCI Track World Championships in Berlin in 2012 , which was unsuccessful.

In 2004 controversies between Bremer and the then President of the BDR, Sylvia Schenk , led to her resignation because she could not 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 Summer Olympics in Athens , but Bremer had kept this from the president of the association. After the new President Rudolf Scharping took office in 2005, Bremer's contract with the BDR was extended.

Bremer was also held responsible for a mistake made by the BDR in the run-up to the UCI Road World Championships in 2009 : the driver Sarah Düster had not been able to start because she had accidentally not been reported by the association. Bremer offered the BDR his "resignation" in this connection, which had no consequences, since he is not a voluntary functionary of the BDR, but an employee under an employment contract . In addition, Bremer later stated that he had only offered his resignation "in jest".

In the following year, the former national coach Peter Weibel accused Bremer of hushing up a doping case of Patrik Sinkewitz , who was later convicted as a professional for doping - at that time still a driver of the U23 national team - at the UCI road world championships in 2000 in Plouay . Bremer’s injunctions against reports in which he was alleged to be aware of doping practices, as well as against the Bundestag member Winfried Hermann , who had said about Bremer that he had already exercised his office in the "hot times of doping", were rejected by the courts. A legal opinion commissioned by the BDR, on the other hand, cleared Bremer of any suspicion of complicity and cover-up; however, the report, which was described as neutral, was drawn up by the brother of a BDR employee. The former BDR President Schenk, who now works for Transparency International , an organization to fight corruption, criticized the report as "flawed".

Bremer, who became seriously ill in 2010, retired at the end of 2011. In August 2011, the BDR announced that the previous national coach for road racing men U23 and cyclo-cross men and juniors, Patrick Moster , would succeed him on January 1st, 2012.

In March 2013, on the occasion of Rudolf Scharping's re-election as President of the BDR, it was announced that Bremer is working for the Rad-net Rose team initiated by the BDR in the area of ​​recruiting and supporting sponsors. One u. a. Sports influence claimed by world and Olympic champion Robert Bartko was contested by the team.

In 2017 Burckhard Bremer acted as project manager of the organizing committee for the European Railway Championships in the Berlin Velodrom .

Honors

In 2008 Burckhard Bremer was awarded the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

References and comments

1. ↑ Burkhard Bremer new DM . In: Radsport , August 1, 1973, p. 3
2. ↑ ^{a b} Markus Völker: In the center of the power struggle. From: www.berliner-zeitung.de , September 18, 2004, accessed on June 7, 2015 . 
3. ^ Chronicle of the NRGv Luisenstadt , accessed on August 15, 2011.
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} rad-net.de of October 18, 2008: Cross of Merit on Ribbon for Burckhard Bremer
5. ↑ In the meantime, the BDR is applying for the 2013 Rail World Championships in Berlin. See rad-net.de from March 28, 2010: Track Cycling World Cup 2013 is to be brought to Berlin
6. ↑ stern.de of May 28, 2007: Schenk charges another Freiburg doctor
7. ↑ radsport-news.com from September 26, 2009: BDR sports director Bremer offers to resign
8. ↑ sueddeutsche.de of September 28, 2009: From the role
9. ↑ focus.de from May 26, 2010: Weibel charged BDR sports director Bremer again
10. ↑ dradio.de of August 29, 2010: Known about manipulations
11. ↑ No consequences for BDR in the Bremer case on wz-newsline.de , accessed on August 15, 2011
12. ↑ BDR report, sports director Bremer speaks freely on dradio.de , accessed on August 15, 2011
13. ↑ rad-net.de from April 1, 2011: BDR is looking for a successor to sports director Burckhard Bremer
14. ↑ rad-net.de from August 23, 2011: Patrick Moster becomes the new sports director of the BDR
15. ↑ spiegel.de of March 23, 2013: The questionable statements by Rudolf Scharping
16. ↑ Bernd Mülle: The Velodrome shines in new splendor: State Secretary Christian Gaebler personally tests the new surface. In: turus.net. September 14, 2017. Retrieved October 29, 2017 . 

Web links

• Burckhard Bremer in the Radsportseiten.net database