Dieter Kemper

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Dieter Kemper Road cycling
Dieter Kemper (1963)
Dieter Kemper (1963)
To person
Nickname Dietze
Date of birth August 11, 1937
date of death October 11, 2018
nation GermanyGermany Germany
discipline Train / street
End of career 1978
Societies)
RV Sturmvogel Dortmund
Most important successes
UCI track world championships
1975 World Champion - Standing race
Team (s) as coach
1980s BDR national team stayers
Last updated: February 16, 2019
The track world champions of 1975 (from left to right): Hennie Kuiper , André Gevers , Dieter Kemper and Roy Schuiten
Kemper and Klaus Bugdahl (left) at the six-day race in Amsterdam in 1969
Dieter Kemper after his World Cup victory in 1975
Certificate "Sportsman of the Year 1973"

Dieter Kemper (born August 11, 1937 in Dortmund ; † October 11, 2018 in Berlin-Pankow ) was a German racing cyclist who competed in races on track and road , and national coach . In the course of his active career he was once world champion in the standing race (1975) and seven times European champion as well as German champion on the track. This made him one of the most successful German track cyclists of the 1960s and 1970s. In 1978 he had to end his cycling career after a serious fall.

biography

Childhood and youth

Dieter Kemper was born in Dortmund shortly before the outbreak of World War II ; he had a brother. When he was three years old, his father Ernst was drafted into the armed forces. The Kempers' apartment was destroyed by bombs and the mother and her two sons were evacuated. The father survived his war effort and returned to the family. Kemper grew up in the Dortmund district of Lindenhorst . He did an apprenticeship as a carpenter and graduated from evening school to attend engineering school, which, however, never happened due to his later sporting career.

Kemper started swimming at the age of nine , stimulated by the proximity of the Dortmund-Ems Canal , a popular swimming area. His main discipline was 200 m chest. He later played successfully water polo at Westfalen Dortmund . Friends, including the son of racing cyclist Heinz Vopel , brought him to cycling.

Beginning as an amateur

Dieter Kemper began his cycling career in 1957 at the age of 20 in a so-called “first step” race in Dortmund-Schüren on a second-hand racing bike . Despite numerous falls, he finished second in this race. In the following time he drove as an amateur for RV Sturmvogel Dortmund , where he remained a member during his professional career. As a young amateur, he advanced from C to A driver within a week by winning three road races. He gave up swimming because the following year he was drafted into the armed forces and swimming training was not compatible with duty, "but cycling after work was possible," he said later. To the competitions - even in remote regions - Kemper did not take the bus or train, but traveled to and from the competition by bike.

In 1960 Kemper became regional champion in North Rhine-Westphalia , won races in Hanover and Herpersdorf and took fourth place in the German road championship. In the elimination races for the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome against the selection of the GDR , he finished 7th and 23rd, which he - like the other West German drivers - could not qualify. In the road world championships taking place in the same year at the Sachsenring, however, Kemper took part, but with little success (he dropped out of the race), so he decided to become a professional . On Boxing Day 1960 he drove his last race as an amateur in the Dortmund Westfalenhalle and set a new track record in the single pursuit over 4000 meters with 5: 04.4 minutes.

Career and successes as a professional

On January 1, 1961, Dieter Kemper signed his first professional contract with Team Torpedo , which included Hennes Junkermann . In his first year he started in the Tour de France . On the second stage from Pontoise to Roubaix , which, like the classic Paris – Roubaix, led over cobblestones, he fell and suffered a laceration on his head. On the sixth stage he fell again and had a defect. Since the material trolley was out of range, he retired because it timed out. As a result, the hoped-for contract with a well-known professional racing team failed to materialize, and in future Kemper shifted his focus to the track; He specialized in the disciplines of single pursuit and two-man team driving as well as six-day and standing races .

From 1963 to 1966, Kemper was German champion four times in a row in the 5000 meter single pursuit , at world championships he was twice third in this discipline. In 1967 he was the first European champion of the standing position in the Dortmund Westfalenhalle .

In the 1964/65 season Dieter Kemper celebrated his first victory in a six-day race with Horst Oldenburg as a partner in Münster . In the following season, he and Rudi Altig achieved four more victories in Berlin , Frankfurt, Cologne and Bremen . In total he contested eight races with Altig, with Oldenburg, however, in the following years 48 six-day races, with Klaus Bugdahl 42; with the Australian Graeme Gilmore he drove 15 races. By 1976 he started in a total of 166 six-day races and won 26 of them (three in his hometown of Dortmund), in 29 participations he finished second and in 28 third place. Measured by the number of his victories, he ranks 19th in the ranking of six-day drivers; In the “historical ranking”, in which all placements are rated with points, he is 13th ( status 2010 ).

In 1975 Kemper started at the World Railroad Championships in Rocourt, Belgium, behind pacemaker Dieter Durst in the professional stand-up race; he was now 38 years old. Until the introduction of the rule since the UCI Track World Championships in 1973 that driver and pacemaker must belong to the same nation, he had driven behind the Dutchman Noppie Koch ; the later successful thirst was still at the beginning of his pacemaker career. In the final, Kemper beat last year's Dutch world champion Cees Stam behind pacemaker Joop Stakenburg . The Westfälische Rundschau headlined: “Kemper at the goal of his wishes. World champion cried for joy ”. The following year he was at the World Cup in Italy Monteroni di Lecce his title not defend: His pacemaker thirst overtook final run a competitor "from the left", which was forbidden. While Kemper was disqualified, Durst was allowed to continue and lead Wilfried Peffgen from Cologne to the title. The magazine Radsport wrote indignantly: "Kemper in the mills of the cycling mafia!"

Kemper leads the eternal ranking of the most successful stayers at the Grand Christmas Prize in Dortmund's Westfalenhalle. He won there five times and collected a total of 53 points in the internal ranking over the course of his career. There were also two victories at the World Cup in Dortmund (1973 and 1974).

Kemper also competed nine times in the Tour de Suisse , in 1962 he won the last 198 kilometer stage in Zurich with a lead of 2:14 minutes over second, the Swiss Dario da Rugna . In the same year he won a stage of the Deutschland Tour and in 1964 one of the 4 Jours de Dunkerque . With the team Batavus he won in 1969 the team time trial of the Tour de Suisse. He contested this tour a total of nine times, his best result in the overall classification was 28th place in 1964.

On December 5, 1976, Dieter Kemper suffered a serious fall in a standing race in the Cologne sports hall : he got off the role of the motorcycle, crashed into the gang at high speed and was badly hit on the head by the standing motorcycle that followed. He suffered life-threatening injuries and was in a coma for nine days. The result of the accident was a 60 percent severe disability , primarily due to a destroyed lung . Nevertheless, he started again at the World Railroad Championships in 1977 in the Venezuelan capital Caracas , which he later described as one of his most beautiful world championships because he knew that he had no chance and could therefore enjoy the atmosphere and the country. In February 1978 he finally ended his cycling career after one last start at the Dortmund World Cup and was celebrated by the spectators. The Ruhr Nachrichten wrote: "He no longer found the pedal step as before and that's why he is now stepping off the wooden planks - the boards that meant the world to him."

After cycling

After the end of his cycling career, Dieter Kemper opened two cycling shops one after the other. In the early 1980s he also acted as the national coach of the stayers. His protégé Rainer Podlesch became the amateur world champion of the stayers in 1983 on the cycling track in Zurich-Oerlikon .

Business was bad and debts piled up. Eventually Kemper sold his house in Holzwickede and moved to Julianadorp in the Netherlands with his wife Carola in 2006 . In 2008 Carola Kemper died of a brain tumor . In his final years, Kemper lived in Berlin near his son, the journalist Christian Kemper , who wrote his father's biography on the 80th birthday of his father. Dieter Kemper died there in October 2018 at the age of 81.

Awards

In 1973 and 1975 the readers of the Westfälische Rundschau voted Dieter Kemper as Dortmund's “Sportsman of the Year”.

successes

train

1963
  • MaillotAllemania.svg German champion - one's pursuit
1964
  • MaillotAllemania.svg German champion - one's pursuit
1965
1966
1967
  • EuropeEuropeEuropean Champion - Standing Race (behind Norbert Koch )
1968
1969
1971
1972
1973
  • EuropeEuropeEuropean Champion - Standing Race (behind Norbert Koch )
1974
1975
1976
  • silver European Championship - Derny
  • silver European Championship - Standing Race
  • MaillotAllemania.svg German champion - standing race
1977
  • silver European Championship - Derny

Six days race

1964
1965
1966
1967
1968
1969
1970
1971
Kemper as a road racing driver in the early 1960s
1972
1974
1975
1976

Street

1962
1963
1964

Teams

literature

Web links

Commons : Dieter Kemper  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ex-world champion Dieter Kemper died at the age of 81. In: rad-net.de. October 12, 2018, accessed October 12, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Kemper, The Fighter , p. 17f.
  3. ^ A b Peter Kehl: Dieter Kemper: "Crazy, but I would do it again". In: DerWesten . December 23, 2010, accessed February 16, 2019 .
  4. ↑ The new beginning. RV Sturmvogel 1925 Dortmund, 2008, accessed on October 12, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Dieter Kemper: Beginning of a career. In: Historical picture gallery of track cycling. March 28, 2009. Retrieved October 12, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Kemper, The Fighter , p. 19.
  7. ↑ " The new beginning " , homepage of the RSV Sturmvogel Dortmund
  8. ↑ Kemper, The Fighter , p. 35.
  9. ^ Helmer Boelsen: The history of the cycling world championships . Covadonga-Verlag, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-936973-33-4 , p. 219 .
  10. ↑ Kemper, The Fighter , p. 39.
  11. ↑ Kemper, The Fighter , p. 55.
  12. ^ Kurt Graunke , Walter Lemke, Wolfgang Rupprecht: Giants from then to now. Munich 1993, p. 49.
  13. ↑ The European championships before the establishment of the " Union Européenne de Cyclisme " (UEC) in 1995 are considered unofficial, as they were usually invitation races up to this point in which non-European drivers could also take part.
  14. ↑ Roger de Maertelaere ( Mannen van de Nacht , Eeklo 2000) gives 164 starts, Jacq van Reijendam (6-daagsen-statistics No. 18) 165 starts.
  15. ↑ Jacq van Reijendam: 6-daagsen statistieken 2010. No. 18, p. 7.
  16. ↑ Jacq van Reijendam: 6-daagsen statistieken 2010. No. 18, p. 20.
  17. ↑ Kemper, The Fighter , p. 196.
  18. ↑ Kemper, The Fighter , p. 200.
  19. ↑ It all started with “Funny Franz”: From the checkered history of a classic bike. In: Medien-Information 3/2001 of the Westfalenhallen Dortmund GmbH. December 2001, archived from the original on October 25, 2004 ; accessed on October 12, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Kemper, The Fighter , p. 277.
  21. ↑ Kemper, The Fighter , p. 27.
  22. ↑ Kemper, The Fighter , p. 228.
personal data
SURNAME Kemper, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 2018
Place of death Berlin-Pankow