Berlin – Angermünde – Berlin
Berlin – Angermünde – Berlin was a one-day cycle race in Germany and later in the GDR , which was held until 1990. The first event must have taken place well before the 1950s, because New Germany spoke of a traditional long-distance bike ride in an edition from 1950 . The race usually took place in April as the season opener. The race was not held in 1962 and 1987 - in 1962 it was canceled at short notice to better combat the infectious bowel diseases that had occurred in Berlin and in some cases in the Frankfurt (Oder) district; in 1987 it was canceled due to road damage.
The race led from Berlin to Angermünde and back to Berlin. The length of the route varied between 150 and over 200 kilometers. In 1969, after a detour that was necessary at short notice, even 240 kilometers were driven instead of the originally planned 210 kilometers. A year later, due to the poor road conditions, the race was held on a 2.3-kilometer circuit on Rigaer Straße. The total distance was only 115 kilometers.
In 1950, for example, the route ran for 206 kilometers via Bernau, Biesenthal, Eberswalde, Tornow, Hohenfinow, Falkenberg, Freienwalde, Schiffmühle, Neuenhagen, Oderberg, Neuendorf, Paarstein and Neukükendorf to Angermünde and back.
The race had international participation several times. In 1967, for example, Cuba's peace voyage selection took part, in 1969 Polish drivers competed and in 1990 the Dutchman David Pots won .
In 1950 the race was nicknamed the Grand Prix of the Märkische Volksstimme . From 1957 the race in honor of the 1956 fatally injured cyclist Erich Schulz was called the Erich Schulz Memorial Race and was held 32 times under this name.
Winners list
- 1949 (154 km) Kurt Plitt
- 1950 (206 km) Horst Rauschenberger (Spandauer RV 91)
- 1951 (151 km) Rudi Fensl
- 1952 (??? km) Rudi Kirchhoff
- 1953 (155 km) Horst Gaede
- 1954 (155 km) Bernhard Trefflich
- 1955 not held (?)
- 1956 (152 km) Roland Henning
- 1957 (152 km) Heinz Wahl (SC Unit Berlin)
- 1958 (152 km) Georg Stoltze (SC Unit Berlin)
- 1959 (152 km) Günter Schumann (SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt)
- 1960 (152 km) Rolf Töpfer (SC DHfK Leipzig)
- 1961 (152 km) Dieter Ruthenberg (SC Dynamo Berlin)
- 1962 not held
- 1963 (152 km) Lothar Höhne (ASK Leipzig)
- 1964 (152 km) Rainer Marks (SC DHfK Leipzig)
- 1965 (152 km) Günter Hoffmann (ASK Leipzig)
- 1966 (168 km) Erhard Hancke (SC DHfK Leipzig)
- 1967 (210 km) Heinz Richter (SC Dynamo Berlin)
- 1968 (210 km) Norbert Wiechmann (SC Dynamo Berlin)
- 1969 (240 km) Lothar Appler (BSG Post Berlin)
- 1970 (115 km) Axel Peschel (SC Dynamo Berlin)
- 1971 (157 km) Manfred Dähne (SC DHfK Leipzig)
- 1972 (157 km) Lothar Grüner (SC Dynamo Berlin)
- 1973 (157 km) Norbert Dürpisch (ASK Leipzig)
- 1974 (157 km) Eberhard Schimbor (SC Dynamo Berlin)
- 1975 (157 km) Wolfram Kühn (SC Turbine Erfurt)
- 1976 (157 km) Detlef Böhnisch (SC Dynamo Berlin)
- 1977 (157 km) Dieter Stein (TSC Berlin)
- 1978 (157 km) Peter Koch (SC Turbine Erfurt)
- 1979 (157 km) Andreas Neuer (SC Karl-Marx-Stadt)
- 1980 (157 km) Dieter Stein (TSC Berlin)
- 1981 (157 km) Matthias Kittel (SC Turbine Erfurt)
- 1982 (157 km) Martin Goetze (SC DHfK Leipzig)
- 1983 (157 km) Hans-Joachim Meisch (SC Turbine Erfurt)
- 1984 (156 km) Uwe Raab (SC DHfK Leipzig)
- 1985 (156 km) Frank Jesse (SC Cottbus)
- 1986 (156 km) Thomas Barth (SG Wismut Gera)
- 1987 not held
- 1988 (174 km) Andreas Lux (SC DHfK Leipzig)
- 1989 (174 km) Michael Stück (SC Turbine Erfurt)
- 1990 (??? km) David Pots
Individual references / comments
- ↑ a b c Neues Deutschland , May 20, 1950, page 6, Berlin – Angermünde – Berlin
- ↑ Cycling Week, Volume 10 / No. 15, April 10, 1962, 1st selection race not on April 15! , Page 3
- ↑ Jürgen Fischer, 120 sandbags arrive from Rostock in no time , in Neues Deutschland , 28./29. March 1987, page 15
- ↑ a b Der Radsportler, issue April 18, 1969, Five men prepared for the final sprint: Appler won it before Knispler , page 4
- ↑ a b Der Radsportler, April 3, 1970, Axel's famous performance , page 3
- ↑ a b Der Radsportler, Born 1967 / No. 17, April 28, The Trophy Remains in Berlin , page 4
- ^ Illustrated Cycling Express, edition May 31, 1949, page 170, Berlin – Angermünde – Berlin , Express-Verlag GmbH
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung , April 6, 1954, Volume 10 / Issue 81 / Page 5, Friedensfahrt aspirants proved themselves
- ↑ The race took place at short notice this year without the peace trip candidates because their material from the last station from Bulgaria did not arrive on time.
- ↑ Cycling Week , Volume 5 / No. 15, April 9, 1957, Without Peace Rider- "Potte" election , page 3
- ↑ Der Radsportler, Born 1966 / No. 17, April 29, Chefs also in front of the Velodrom , page 3
- ↑ The cyclist, born 1968 / No. 16, April 19, Eleven shone on a long distance , page 4
literature
- List of winners: Berliner Radsport, issue No. 5 (May 2010), page 3
