German Cyclists Association

German Cyclists Association
Founded	17th August 1884
Place of foundation	Leipzig

Memorial plaque for Germany's oldest road race in Zossen

The German Cyclists Association (DRB) was founded in Leipzig in 1884 . In 1919 the DRB and the General Cyclists Union merged to form the Association of German Cyclists .

The "German and German-Austrian Velocipedists Association" founded in early 1883 with 1770 members, the North German Velocipedists Association founded in spring 1883 with 632 members, and the Rhenish Velocipedists Association with 132 members explored at a meeting on On June 29th, 1884 in Meiningen a federal foundation and founded the "Velocipedisten-Congress" on August 17th, 1884 in Leipzig in the Saale der Moritzburg the German Cyclists Association. "... around 300 responded to the hospitable call (from Leipzig)." "The main action, the race (on the racing course on the shady edge of the forest) ... (probably saw) an estimated ten thousand ...".

Carl Hindenburg , a member of the Magdeburg Velociped Club from 1869, was the first chairman and “father of the federal government” . He was in office from 1884 to 1893. He was succeeded from 1894 to 1896 by the lawyer Rudolf Vogel from Königsberg. It followed: 1897 Ludwig Holtbuer, Leipzig; 1898–1914 Theodor Boeckling, Essen; 1915–1923 Dr. Paul Martin, Charlottenburg; 1924–1925 Dr. Heinrich Stevens, Cologne; 1926: Dr. Hans Totschek, Stettin; 1927–1928 Georg Schweinitz, Dresden.

In the 1897 Yearbook of the German Cyclists' Associations , the formation of the German Cyclist Association and the emergence of the German Cyclist Association is described in the portrait of Carl Hindenburg as follows: "In 1882, the two associations, who opposed each other like hostile brothers, came into being: The German-Austrian Velocipede Association in southern Germany and Central Germany, as well as the North German Velocipedist Association; the former with its seat in Munich, the other with the Centralstelle in Berlin-Hanover. [...] After long, often seemingly futile efforts, it finally succeeded in August 1884 by justifying the German Cyclists' Association in Leipzig to reconcile the opponents: In recognition of his services, Hindenburg was given the top management and chairmanship of the newly created association. "

The district associations of the DRB

The German Cyclist Association was divided into 40 district associations. The Gaue published tour books, commemorative publications and, in some cases, their own cycling newspapers. Cyclist maps of the district were created in particular by the publisher Robert Mittelbach in Kötzschenbroda and Leipzig, also through grants from the DRB. Aspects of the history of individual district associations can be reconstructed using historical cyclist newspapers, e. B. Deutscher Radfahrer Bund and Norddeutsche Radsport-Zeitung .

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  Bad Schmiedeberg Cyclist Monument - Gaue 1 to 7

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  Bad Schmiedeberg Cyclist Monument - Gaue 14 to 19

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  Bad Schmiedeberg Cyclist Monument - Gaue 24 to 30

Long-term and long-distance trips

• Federal long-distance tour "Rund durch Deutschland", 1911.

Badges and logos of the DRB

"Official badges" of the German Cyclists Association are documented in the federal newspaper Der Deutsche Radfahrer-Bund 1891.

Federal festivals of the DRB, membership numbers

Official postcard of the XIX. Bundestag of the German Cyclists' Association in Cassel, 18. – 22. July 1902.

Badge 43rd Federal Festival 1926 in Dresden

• 1884: Leipzig, 2537
• 1885: Nuremberg, 5317
• 1886: Berlin, 7285
• 1887: Frankfurt a. M., 9154
• 1888: Vienna, 11.171
• 1889: Hamburg, 12.754
• 1890: Munich, 13.381
• 1891: Breslau, 14,628
• 1892: Cologne, 16.970
• 1893: Leipzig, 19.696
• 1894: Hanover, 22.178
• 1895: Graz, 25.556
• 1896: Halle a. S., 27.863
• 1897: Bremen, 34.906
• 1898: Dortmund, 42.713
• 1899: Munich, 48.283
• 1900: Magdeburg, 47.387
• 1901: Dresden, 44.841
• 1902: Kassel, 39.558
• 1903: Hamburg, 39.058
• 1904: Düsseldorf, 41.198
• 1905: Erfurt, 42.466
• 1906: Nuremberg, 43.100
• 1907: Stettin, 44.774
• 1908: Bremen, 45.463
• 1909: Munich, 46.542
• 1910: Görlitz, 47.564
• 1911: Frankfurt a. M., 46,903
• 1912: Braunschweig, 47.476
• 1913: Breslau, 47,640
• 1914: Augsburg, 46.615
• 1915: canceled, 25,102 (approx. 30,000 retired due to the war)
• 1916: canceled, 17,374
• 1917: canceled, 12,088
• 1918: canceled, 10,663
• 1919: canceled, 23.302
• 1920: failed, 36,331
• 1926: Dresden

literature

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 .

• Anne-Katrin Ebert: 2.3. National production in Germany: The distance journey Vienna – Berlin 1893 . In: Cycling Nations: The History of the Bicycle in Germany and the Netherlands until 1940 . P. 192 ff., Campus Verlag 2010. ISBN 9783593391588
• Wolfgang Schoppe , Werner Ruttkus : Step by step. From 13 decades of history of the Association of German Cyclists . Füssen 2011, ISBN 978-3-929371-23-9 .
• Hindenburg, Carl. University of Magdeburg, accessed on November 20, 2013 . 
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  Wikisource: Deutscher Radfahrer-Bund in the yearbook of the German cyclist clubs 1897: Association structure, people, members, p. 126 ff.  - Sources and full texts
• Deutscher Radfahrer-Bund: specialist magazine for the interests of cyclists; official and own organ of the German Cyclists Association , part of the SLUB Dresden .
• The Norddeutsche Radsport-Zeitung appeared in 1900 and 1901 as the official organ of Gau 27 ( Stettin ) of the DR-B. as well as numerous other cyclist associations in Wollin .
• Märkische Radfahrer-Zeitung, No. 3, January 18, 1900, 1st year. (pdf)

Web links

Commons : Deutscher Radfahrer-Bund  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Manual and tour books

The German Cyclist Association and the individual district associations of the DRB published handbooks and touring books with tips for cycling and tour descriptions. Some of these books have since been digitized.

Wikisource: Collection of digitized tour books for cyclists  - sources and full texts

Festival books, festival programs and song books

• Festschrift des "Radfahr-Humor" for the VII. Bundestag of the German Cyclists Association and the V Congress of the General Cyclists Union, August 1890, digitized, BSB Munich .
• Festschrift for the IX. Bundestag of the German Cyclists' Association in Cologne, 1892, digitized, Cologne University Library .
• Official commemorative publication for the XIV Bundestag of the German Cyclists Association in Bremen, 1897, digitized, SUB Bremen .
• Festschrift des Radfahr-Humor zum XVI. Bundestag of the DRB in Munich 1899, Festgabe, dedicated to all Bundestag visitors as a friendly reminder; with numerous illustrations by the Munich artists IB Engl, Th. Grätz, E. Heine, Emil Kneiß, E. Neumann, Adolf Rummel, F. Stuck and E. Rantzenhofer-Wien, Munich, 1899. Digitized, BSB Munich .
• Official festival newspaper for the Summer Gau Day of Gau 21 Sachsen des Deutsch. Radf.-Bund: associated with 10 years of age. Foundation festival and banner inauguration of the 1890 Waldheim Cyclist Club on July 21, 22 and 23, 1900, digitized, SLUB Dresden .
• Songbook of Gau 19 Rostock of the German Cyclists Association, approx. 1900, digitized version of the Rostock University Library .
• Festival book for the IV. Hiking Sports Festival of the South German Gaue 5, 6, 7 and 8 of the German Cyclists Association in Cannstadt a. Neckar on 26., 27. u. September 28, 1903, digitized from WLB Stuttgart .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.cycling4fans.de: Brief history of German cycling - Part II 1919 to 1945 , accessed on November 4, 2017.
2. ^ Waibler, Fritz (graphic artist): From the German Velocipedist Congress in Leipzig: The Gala Velocipedist Festival of the Leipzig Bicycle Club in the Krystallpalast , August 18, 1884, digitized in the Leipzig City History Museum, cf. Entry of the digital library www.europeana.eu.
3. ↑ Source: quoted from Frank Papperitz, Fahrrad-Veteranen-Freunde Dresden 1990 eV (November 4, 2017)
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   Wikisource: Rudolf Vogel in the yearbook of the German cycling clubs 1897, p. 8 ff.  - Sources and full texts
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   Wikisource: Yearbook of the German Cyclist Clubs 1897/98, Carl Hindenburg. , P. 5. f.  - Sources and full texts
6. ^ Map: Structure of the German Cyclists Association with Gau division , Magdeburg: Albert Rathke, 1892, printed by Rob. Hesse - O. v. Bomsdorff 'geogr. Institution, Leipzig.
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   Wikisource: Yearbook of the German Cyclists' Associations 1897: Deutscher Radfahrer-Bund. , P. 119.  - Sources and full texts
8. ↑ Wikimedia Commons: Deutscher Radfahrer-Bund, year 1891, (specialist journal, excerpts), report on the work of the map commission. P. 151 f ..
9. ↑ Deutscher Radfahrer-Bund: specialist magazine for the interests of cyclists; official and own organ of the German Cyclists Association , 1888-1900, partly in the holdings of the SLUB Dresden .
10. ^ Freiberg City Archives: File X. IX. 25 races and prizes (1909) , letter from DRB Gau 21 (Dresden) to the Royal Saxon Ministry of the Interior.
11. ↑ Wikimedia Commons: German Cyclists Association, year 1891, (specialist journal, excerpts), p. 191.
12. ↑ Source: Federal festivals of the DRB and membership figures quoted from Frank Papperitz, Fahrrad-Veteranen-Freunde Dresden 1990 eV (November 4, 2017)
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    Wikisource: song book of Gau 19 Rostock of the German Cyclists Association  - sources and full texts
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