Carl Hindenburg

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Carl Hindenburg

Carl Hindenburg (born August 11, 1820 in Magdeburg ; † April 6, 1899 there ) was a German cycling official and the first president of the German Cyclists' Association (DRB), which later became the Association of German Cyclists (BDR).

Carl Hindenburg attended business school and learned the trade of a businessman. He worked in Thuringia for two decades before he returned to his hometown Magdeburg and ran a wholesale business for household goods and haberdashery there.

In 1868 students brought the first Michaulinen to Magdeburg. Hindenburg was enthusiastic about the new means of transport, and together with other interested parties he founded the Magdeburg Velocipede Club of 1869 (MVC); he himself became first chairman. The MVC was the third bicycle club in Germany after the Altonaer Bicycle Club and the Munich Velocipede Club . In 1869 the first series manufacturer of Velocipedes , Heinrich Büssing , delivered 180 bikes to Magdeburg. In the years to come, the association developed into one of the largest number of members in Germany. He became particularly well-known for his performance of real bicycle operettas and the development of indoor sports; Hindenburg himself took part in the round and corso drives.

In 1882 the MVC joined the German and German-Austrian Velocipede Association . At a general assembly in Magdeburg in 1883, the cyclist greeting All Heil was introduced and a cycling track was inaugurated on the Werder , where the first unofficial championship on high bikes was held. When various cycling associations merged to form the German Cyclists' Association in 1884 , Hindenburg was elected President, who was reluctant to accept the office because he was initially critical of the umbrella association. Hindenburg's merit as president was that he "activated a completely new sport [...] and contributed significantly to the population of the bicycle with a completely new branch of industry". During his tenure, the number of members of the association grew from 3,000 to 50,000. He also advocated cycling for women.

German Cyclist Association, born in 1891. Excerpts with articles on the conflict with Theophil Weber, Stahlrad editorial staff and the subsequent establishment of the Saxon Cyclists Association .

Despite his merits, Hindenburg was not without controversy: In 1890, the editor-in-chief of the Leipzig magazine Stahlrad , Theophil Weber , criticized the “wastefulness” of the DRB presidium under Hindenburg, which had paid out extremely large amounts of money from the association's treasury. In addition, in preparation for a monument to Karl Drais , Hindenburg had a portrait made by a Leipzig artist printed and distributed in large numbers; the penalty to be paid was also paid from the association's treasury. At Hindenburg's instigation, Weber was expelled from the DRB against resistance from Gaus Leipzig.

After his resignation from the presidency in 1893, Hindenburg became honorary president of the DRB; he died in 1899. At his funeral in Magdeburg, with great sympathy from the population, all the bells in the city rang. Wreaths were regularly laid at his grave until 1933. In 1997 the grave site was initially leveled, but on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Hindenburg's death in 1999, on the initiative of the BDR regional association of Saxony-Anhalt, it was redesigned and declared a memorial.

Publications and Sources

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günter Grau: Carl Hindenburg . In: Wolfgang Schoppe / Werner Ruttkus (ed.): Step by step. From 13 decades of history of the Association of German Cyclists . Frehner Consulting, 2012, ISBN 978-3-929371-23-9 , pp. 91 .
  2. ^ A b c Günter Grau: Carl Hindenburg . In: Wolfgang Schoppe / Werner Ruttkus (ed.): Step by step. From 13 decades of history of the Association of German Cyclists . Frehner Consulting, 2012, ISBN 978-3-929371-23-9 , pp. 92 .
  3. ↑ Bicycle traffic concept. (PDF; 4.7 MB) State capital Magdeburg, p. 9 , accessed on November 20, 2013 .
  4. ↑ SRB Aktuell, 5/2011. (PDF; 3.0 MB) Saxon Cyclists Association, p. 3 , archived from the original on June 10, 2015 ; Retrieved November 20, 2013 .
  5. ↑
    Wikisource: Carl Hindenburg: One last word against the redaction of the "Stahlrad" , in: Deutscher Radfahrer-Bund , 1891.  - Sources and full texts

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SURNAME Hindenburg, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cycling official and first President of the German Cyclists Association
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1899
Place of death Magdeburg