GDR tour 1955

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Tour winner:
Dieter Lüder

The 1955 GDR tour was held from September 4th to 11th. The tour took place for the seventh time and was won by Dieter Lüder from East Berlin . The team from SC Einheit Berlin won the team competition .

Attendees

21 teams with five drivers each took part in the tour, so that a total of 105 athletes started. 20 teams were formed from sports associations (SV) and sports clubs (SC) of the GDR. The only team not coming from the GDR area was a team from the North Rhine-Westphalia Cycling Association. The following teams competed:

  • SV activist
  • SV structure
  • SV Chemistry
  • SV Dynamo
  • SV unit
  • SV Up
  • SV progress
  • SV locomotive
  • SV medicine
  • SV engine
  • SV Post I
  • SV Post II

Route

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The seventh round trip was 1244 kilometers long and was divided into seven stages. The route with start and finish in East Berlin only touched the southern part of the GDR in 1955. The first stage from East Berlin to Stendal was the shortest part of the day at 153 kilometers; on the fourth stage between Erfurt and Gera , the drivers had to complete the longest route at 201 kilometers. Two mountain stages were driven through the Thuringian Forest and the Ore Mountains between Erfurt and Karl-Marx-Stadt .

Race course

The two-time round trip winner Gustav-Adolf Schur entered the race as the favorite . He could not live up to this role, he did not win any of the seven stages and gambled away his chances on the first day when he reached the finish in the main field, one and a half minutes behind the stage winner. He achieved his best result with fourth place on the second stage, after which he only drove in a group and finally ended up in fifth place in the overall standings. At first instability shaped the tour. Before Dieter Lüder from SV Empor had won the yellow jersey of the front runner on the fourth stage as fourth of a 14-man leading group with a two-minute lead , a different driver was in front after each day. Without having won a stage, Lüder never gave up the lead in the overall standings and finally won the tour with a narrow margin of 23 seconds over Erich Schulz from the first team of the Post Sport Association.

In the team classification, all three sports clubs that started were able to maintain their position at the top. It was won by SC Einheit Berlin with its drivers Rudi Kirchhoff (7th in the individual ranking), Erwin Wittig (9th), Benno Funda (10th), Werner Malitz and Horst Tüller with a lead of 1:41 minutes. As the best team in a sports association, SV Motor finished fifth, behind the drivers of the North Rhine-Westphalia regional association (4th), over 37 minutes behind the winner.

Stage overview
stage Start finish Length (km) winner team Time (h)
1 East Berlin - Stendal 153 Günter Wilm RV North Rhine-W. 3:55:11
2 Stendal - Halle (Saale) 187 Fritz yearling SV unit 5:06:29
3 Halle (Saale) - Erfurt 155 Horst Rauschenberger SV Up 4:26:00
4th Erfurt - Gera 201 Georg Stoltze SV locomotive 5:23:27
5 Gera - Karl-Marx-Stadt 163 Benno Funda SC unit Berlin 4:39:08
6th Karl-Marx-Stadt - Cottbus 200 Günter Grünwald SC DHfK Leipzig 5:20:38
7th Cottbus - East Berlin 185 Fritz yearling SV unit 4:59:04

Final results

Individual evaluation
driver team Time (h)
01 . Dieter Lüder SV Up 34:08:52
02. Erich Schulz SV Post I 34:09:15
03. Günter Grünwald SC DHfK Leipzig 34:10:19
04th Lothar Master II SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt 34:10:50
05. Gustav-Adolf Schur SC DHfK Leipzig 34:12:41
06th Steinzen RV North Rhine-W. 34:12:48
07th Rudi Kirchhoff SC unit Berlin 34:13:22
08th. Carpenter SC DHfK Leipzig 34:14:07
09. Erwin Wittig SC unit Berlin 34:14:46
010. Benno Funda SC unit Berlin 34:15:01
011. Lothar Master I. SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt 34:15:35
012. Werner Malitz SC unit Berlin 34:16:22
013. Schober SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt 34:16:53
014th Ostheider SV engine 34:17:27
015th Grabow SV Chemistry 34:17:43
016. Zirngiebl SV rotation 34:21:18
017th Grünfeld RV North Rhine-W. 34:21:54
018th Fox SV engine 34:22:15
019th Lepperhoff RV North Rhine-W. 34:22:18
020th yearling SV unit 34:24:41
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Team ranking
team Time (h)
01 . SC unit Berlin 102: 32: 16
02. SC DHfK Leipzig 102: 33: 57
03. SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt 102: 40: 09
04th RV North Rhine-Westphalia 102: 42: 25
05. SV engine 103: 08: 08
06th SV unit 103: 15: 55
07th SV Up 103: 16: 22
08th. SV rotation 103: 16: 31
09. SV locomotive 103: 22: 51
010. SV Chemistry 103: 29: 27
011. SV medicine 103: 34: 40
012. SV progress 103: 42: 42
013. SV bismuth 103: 55: 07
014th SV Post I 103: 56: 26
015th SV tractor 104: 05: 03
0 ...

literature

  • GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho , issues September 1955