GDR tour

The GDR Tour (also: International GDR Tour in Cycling ) was a stage race in road cycling for amateurs that was held in the GDR and carried out by the German Sports Committee until 1957 and from 1958 by the German Cycling Association of the GDR . It was held for the first time in 1949, at that time still as the " East Zone Tour " (also: East Zone Tour or across the East Zone ). In the period from 1974 to 1987, seven stages of the GDR tour were declared as a Harz tour , sometimes under different names such as "Rund im Harz", "Quer durch ...", " Dessau - Nordhausen ", etc. The 70th road race around Berlin around the The Berliner Zeitung's Grand Prix was also the 1st stage of the 24th GDR tour . The last tour took place in 1989. Gustav-Adolf Schur and Bernd Drogan each won the tour four times. There were only three overall victories by foreign drivers (1956, 1957 and 1972).

Ratings

Seven individual ratings were given in the GDR tour.

• The leader of the general classification received the yellow jersey .
• The most active driver wore the purple jersey . Premium sprints and advances during the race were counted here. This jersey was only awarded from 1966.
• The best climber received the green jersey . This jersey was only awarded from 1976, except for 1977 and 1988.
• The white jersey went to the best-placed young GDR driver in the overall ranking . This jersey was only awarded from 1962.
• The blue jersey was awarded to the best team. This jersey was not awarded in 1962.
• The most versatile driver got the pink jersey . This jersey was only awarded from 1982.
• The driver with the best points received the white and red jersey . This jersey was only awarded in 1988.

statistics

year	winner	2.	3.	Stages / km		Purple leotard	Green jersey	White jersey	Blue jersey	Pink jersey	White-red jersey
1949	Max Bartoskiewicz	Karl-Heinz Hey	Horst Gaede	7th	1,186	-	-	-	-	-	-
1950	Bernhard Trefflich	Lothar Master I.	Erich Schulz	10	1,823	-	-	-	-	-	-
1951	Bernhard Wille	Pal Kucsera	Lajos Szabó	10	1,747	-	-	-	-	-	-
1952	Erich Schulz	Walter Nickel	Bruno Zieger	8th	1,530	-	-	-	-	-	-
1953	Gustav-Adolf Schur	Georg Stoltze	Werner Gallinge	9	1,672	-	-	-	-	-	-
1954	Gustav-Adolf Schur	Erwin Wittig	Rudi Kirchhoff	8th	1,503	-	-	-	-	-	-
1955	Dieter Lüder	Erich Schulz	Günter Grünwald	7th	1,244	-	-	-	-	-	-
1956	Alphonse Hermans	Siegfried Wustrow	Heinz Zimmermann	10	1,561	-	-	-	-	-	-
1957	Eddy Pauwels	Gerhard Loeffler	Günter Oldenburg	9	1,244	-	-	-	-	-	-
1958	Erich Hagen	Gustav-Adolf Schur	Egon Adler	8th	1,747	-	-	-	-	-	-
1959	Gustav-Adolf Schur	Hubertus Zilverberg	Günter Loerke	9	1,433	-	-	-	-	-	-
1960	not carried out
1961	Gustav-Adolf Schur	Klaus Ampler	Dieter Wiedemann	8th	1,379	-	-	-	SC Science DHfK Leipzig I	-	-
1962	Klaus Ampler	Dieter Wiedemann	Günter Hoffmann	9	1,275	-	-	Lugert, Rainer Marks	-	-	-
1963	Klaus Ampler	Bernhard Eckstein	Rainer Marks	8th	1,268	-	-	-	-	-	-
1964	not carried out
1965	Axel Peschel	Bernhard Eckstein	Günter Hoffmann	8th	1,000	-	-	-	-	-	-
1966	Dieter Grabe	Dieter Voigtländer	Lothar Lingner	6th	0914	Dieter Grabe	-	-	-	-	-
1967	Axel Peschel	Siegfried Huster	Dieter Grabe	8th	1,321	Dieter Grabe	-	-	-	-	-
1968	Dieter Grabe	Gerd Steiner	Wolfgang Wesemann	7th	0985	Dieter Grabe	-	-	-	-	-
1969	not carried out
1970	not carried out
1971	Wolfgang Wesemann	Dieter Gonschorek	Michel Pollentier	6th	0762	Dieter Grabe	-	-	-	-	-
1972	Fedor the Hertog	Hennie Kuiper	Dieter Gonschorek	6th	0772	Fedor the Hertog	-	-	-	-	-
1973	Dieter Gonschorek	Siegfried Kramer	Hynek Kubíček	7th	0935	Dieter Gonschorek	-	-	-	-	-
1974	Hans-Joachim Hartnick	Sven-Åke Nilsson	Gerhard Lauke	7th	0862	Wolfgang Gansert	-	Hans-Joachim Hartnick , Wolfgang Gansert	GDR	-	-
1975	Hans-Joachim Hartnick	Michael Schiffner	Dietmar Käbisch	7th	0916	Eberhard Sanftleben	-	-	-	-	-
1976	Siegbert Schmeißer	Uwe Freese	Bernard Kręczyński	8th	1,162	Rainer Salan	Bernd Drogan	Siegbert Schmeißer	GDR II	-	-
1977	Bernd Drogan	Joachim Vogel	Wolfgang Schröder	9	1,071	Eberhard Sanftleben	-	-	-	-	-
1978	Bernd Drogan	Peter Richter	Thilo Fuhrmann	7th	1,035	Bernd Drogan	Nencho Stajkov	-	-	-	-
1979	Bernd Drogan	Hans-Joachim Hartnick	Martin Goetze	7th	0938	Olaf Ludwig	Hans-Joachim Hartnick	-	-	-	-
1980	Falk Boden	Olaf Ludwig	Andreas Petermann	7th	0988	Olaf Ludwig	Bernd Drogan	-	-	-	-
1981	Lutz Loetzsch	Thomas Barth	Hans-Joachim Hartnick	7th	0914	Thomas Barth	Thomas Barth	-	-	-	-
1982	Bernd Drogan	Thomas Barth	Jiří Škoda	7th	0991	Peter Scheibner	Thomas Barth	-	-	-	-
1983	Olaf Ludwig	Uwe Ampler	Jiří Škoda	7th	0940	Andreas Petermann	Olaf Jentzsch	-	-	-	-
1984	Falk Boden	Bernd Drogan	Lutz Loetzsch	7th	0918	Thomas Schenderlein	Olaf Ludwig	-	-	-	-
1985	Olaf Ludwig	Dan Radtke	Jens Heppner	6th	1.006	Thomas Barth	Uwe Ampler	-	-	-	-
1986	Uwe Ampler	Hardy Groeger	Lutz Loetzsch	7th	0844	Ralf Schmidt	Uwe Ampler	-	-	-	-
1987	Uwe Ampler	Jens Heppner	Olaf Ludwig	7th	1,451	Olaf Ludwig	Uwe Ampler	-	-	-	-
1988	Uwe Raab	Dan Radtke	Martin Goetze	7th	0975	Martin Goetze	?	-	-	-	Uwe Raab
1989	Uwe Ampler	Eddy Bouwmans	Dirk Schiffner	9	1,015	Frank Augustin	Uwe Ampler	-	-	-	-

Records

• Most often Bernd Drogan and Olaf Jentzsch drove the GDR tour. Both made 11 starts.

literature

• Der Radsportler, June 2, 1980 edition, page 1, publisher: German Cycling Association of the GDR
• www.wielerarchieven.be, GDR Tour 1949–1989 , accessed on May 1, 2011

See also

• Sport aktuell (GDR) #concept

Web links

Commons : GDR tour  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature on GDR tour in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Buchheim: Harz Tour - the classic in Central Germany. In: radsportonline.com. Retrieved May 21, 2020 .