Dieter Vogelsang

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Dieter Vogelsang (born July 18, 1943 in Berlin ) is a former German racing cyclist who was active in the GDR in the 1960s . His exact first name is Dietrich.

Athletic career

Before Vogelsang, the son of a successful athlete who fell in World War II in 1944, started cycling with the East Berlin Company Sports Association (BSG) Post in 1958 , he had played soccer in a school team. Even as a young rider, Vogelsang, who at 179 cm tall and weighed 69 kg in competition, achieved around 70 victories, which earned him a delegation to the GDR security team, SC Dynamo Berlin . At the GDR youth championships he won three titles with the SC Dynamo, in the team pursuit and in two-man team driving on the track as well as in the street four . In 1962, in May, he was promoted to performance class I for men. In 1963 Vogelsang competed in the first men's stage race on the GDR tour . He finished 14th and missed the white jersey of the best young driver just behind Dieter Mickein . In 1965 Vogelsang was able to draw attention to itself with remarkable results. In addition to fourth place in the Hainleite race and a fifth place as well as a stage win in the GDR tour, he achieved first places in the Grand Prix of New Germany and in the Rund um das Spaargebirge .

After moving to SC Karl-Marx-Stadt , Vogelsang was able to qualify for the GDR national team at the International Peace Drive in 1966. The 22-year-old was in the meantime in the individual ranking at Prague-Warsaw-Berlin in tenth place and finally finished the peace ride as the second best GDR driver behind Axel Peschel (3rd) in eleventh place. He was then nominated for the GDR road foursome, who won 7th place in front of the BDR team at the UCI road world championship in Cologne, although he did not drive in the dynamo foursome, which previously won the GDR championship in the 100th -km team race.

In April 1967 (during the Friedensfahrt qualification), after the spring race, Vogelsang was one of the spokesmen for a "driver's strike" after the spring race for the Dynamo Cup because of the early exit at the instigation of the GDR Cycling Association from the SC Karl Marx City excluded (see also Lothar Appler ). Thereupon he did not join any BSG in protest and gave back his driver's license.

Professional

Vogelsang completed an apprenticeship as a model maker.

Private

His first name is Dietrich, but he was called Dieter and is also called that in all publications.

literature

  • Klaus Ullrich: Every time in May . Sportverlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-328-00177-8 .
  • GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho , issue of April 12, 1966 with a short biography

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 15/1966 . Berlin April 15, 1966, p. 7 .
  2. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 16/1967 . Berlin April 21, 1967, p. 15 .
  3. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 15/1966 . Berlin 1966, p. 7 .
personal data
SURNAME Vogelsang, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist (GDR)
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin