GDR road cycling championships 1953

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Award ceremony after the 1st championship run: v. l. No. Gaede, Dinter, excellent

The road cycling championships in the GDR in 1953 were held in the individual and team races. Bernhard Trefflich from Weimar won the individual race, and the team champion was, as in the previous year, the company sports association (BSG) Dwigatel Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt .

Individual championship

As in previous years, the championship in the individual road race was decided in three races according to a point system, according to which points ten to one were awarded for each run.

1st run on May 31, 1953: Riesa - Leipzig - Riesa

104 drivers took to the 249-kilometer route. After only 30 kilometers, last year's champion Lothar Meister I had to retire after a pedal axle break. 90 kilometers before the finish line, four drivers led by Bernhard Trefflich blew up the top group of 30 and extended their lead to over four minutes. While Detlef Zabel from Leipzig fell back after a fit of weakness, Trefflich, Paul Dinter and Horst Gaede arrived together on the home straight. Trefflich was the first to accelerate and certainly won the race.

Result 1st run
driver team Time (h) Points
1. Bernhard Trefflich BSG unit Weimar 6:54:15 10
2. Paul Dinter BSG Motor Wildau 09
3. Horst Gaede BSG development Börde Magdeburg 08th
4th Detlef Zabel BSG Rotation Leipzig East 07th
5. Heinz Jacob BSG Rotation Berlin 06th

2nd run on June 7, 1953: 100 km time trial in Erfurt

The start of the second championship run, a 100 km time trial, began at 6:30 a.m. on Erfurter Goslaer Strasse. The 58 starters were sent every two minutes on the route that led back to Goslaer Straße via Gotha and Ohrdruf . After half the distance, Bernhard Trefflich was leading 50 seconds ahead of Heinz Schneikardt from Mansfeld . Lothar Meister I was 1:08 minutes behind in third place, but had to give up again due to back problems. On the way back, the drivers had to contend with strong headwinds, which had an impact on the ranking. After 75 kilometers, Kurt Hünerbein from Magdeburg was 40 seconds ahead of Trefflich and 55 seconds ahead of his teammate Gustav-Adolf Schur . These three ultimately made up the first three places among themselves, with Schur turning out to be the strongest driver with a very small lead of six seconds over Trefflich. With 19 points, Bernhard Trefflich was able to defend his top position in the overall ranking.

Result 2nd run
driver team Time (h) Points
1. Gustav-Adolf Schur BSG development Börde Magdeburg 2:38:40 10
2. Bernhard Trefflich BSG unit Weimar 2:38:46 19th
3. Kurt Hünerbein BSG development Börde Magdeburg 2:42:10 08th
4th Detlef Zabel BSG Rotation Leipzig East 2:42:38 14th
5. Benno Funda BSG Motor Wildau 2:42:48 11

3rd run on June 14th: around Meißen

For the final and decisive championship run, a 22-kilometer circuit east of Meissen was selected, which had to be driven eight times, so that the drivers had to cover 176 kilometers. The first four rounds went without any highlights. At the beginning of the fifth lap, three drivers made a first breakaway attempt, which gave them a two-minute lead. However, Schur and Trefflich made sure that the three could be caught again. Another advance by Fritz Funke ( Karl-Marx-Stadt ) was quickly stopped. The decision was not made until the last lap when Hünerbein, Fiedler ( Zittau ), Köhler and Schneickardt pulled away from the field and gained a lead of over a minute. The 31-year-old Hünerbein won the sprint in Meißen, securing second place in the overall standings. A place in the main field was enough for Bernhard Trefflich to win the GDR championship.

Result 3rd run
driver team Time (h) Points
1. Kurt Hünerbein BSG development Börde Magdeburg 4:56:14 18th
2. Heinz Fiedler Zittau 09
3. Charcoal burner 08th
4th Heinz Schneikardt BSG Stahl Eisleben 012
5. Martin Naumann Leipzig 4:57:34 06th

Final score

driver team Points
1. Bernhard Trefflich BSG unit Weimar 19th
2. Kurt Hünerbein BSG development Börde Magdeburg 18th
3. Detlef Zabel BSG Rotation Leipzig East 14th
4th Heinz Schneickardt BSG Stahl Eisleben 12
5. Gustav-Adolf Schur BSG development Börde Magdeburg 12
6th Horst Gaede BSG development Börde Magdeburg 12
7th Benno Funda BSG Motor Wildau 11
8th. Heinz Fiedler Zittau 09
9. Horst Siegel BSG Dwigatel Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt 09
10. Paul Dinter BSG Motor Wildau 09

Team championship

The championship run over the 100 km team race was held on the route East Berlin - Müncheberg - East Berlin. 23 teams took part, each with six drivers and starting five minutes apart in East Berlin's Stalinallee . At the turning point in Müncheberg, east of Berlin, the BSG Dwigatel Wismut team led Karl-Marx-Stadt with a lead of five seconds over the BSG unit Berliner Bär . 25 kilometers from the finish, the Karl-Marx-Städter had extended their lead to 36 seconds and was now leading the BSG Post Berlin . Then it became critical for the Saxons, as their driver Alfred Weber lost the connection after a tire damage and a little later Bernhard Trefflich could no longer keep up the pace. At the finish line on Stalinallee, Post Berlin initially set a best time of 2:28:58 h, which the BSG unit Berliner Bär missed by three seconds. When Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt had crossed the finish line, it was clear that the defending champion had set the fastest time with 2:28:56 h and thus won the GDR championship again.

Result
team Time (h)
1. BSG Dwigatel Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt I
( Fritz Funke , Lothar Meister I , Reichmann, Horst Siegel , Bernhard Trefflich , Alfred Weber)		 2:28:56
2. BSG Post Berlin 2:28:58
3. BSG unit Berlin Bear 2:29:01
4th BSG Rotation Leipzig East 2:30:00
5. BSG Stahl Eisleben 2:31:17
6th BSG Rotation Berlin 2:34:13
7th BSG Dwigatel Wismut Chemnitz II 2:37:25
8th. SG Semper Berlin 2:37:37
9. SG Dynamo Berlin 2:38:09
10. BSG locomotive Leipzig 2:39:04

literature

  • GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho, born in 1953