Erich Aberger

Erich Aberger

Erich Aberger (born August 25, 1892 in Berlin , † December 29, 1941 in Eiche (Ahrensfelde) or Eiche (Potsdam) ) was a German racing cyclist .

Erich Aberger, along with Jean Rosellen and Karl Wittig, was one of the most successful German road drivers before and after the First World War . His first major success was third place in the Berlin-Cottbus-Berlin race in 1910 , still as an amateur. Thereupon he switched to the professionals , competed in the same year this race for professional drivers and took second place. His first race as a professional driver was around 500 kilometers through the Spree region . Aberger started there with the assumption that he could get food at all checkpoints, but succumbed to a mistake. For him, who had hardly taken anything with him, the race was a huge endurance test. Nevertheless, he won the race in a sprint ahead of Karl Wittig. He later described this success as his greatest win.

In the forerunners of the “Germany Tour”, Aberger took top places: in 1911 he won two stages at Quer durch Deutschland and was fifth overall; In 1922 he also took fifth place at the German Grand Prix . He won Rund um Berlin three times (1912, 1921, 1923), four times Berlin-Leipzig-Berlin (1911, 1912, 1913, 1921), twice Rund um die Hainleite (1913, 1914) and many other races in Germany. In 1912 and 1923 he was German runner-up in road racing. Aberger rarely started abroad, but finished fifth on the Tour of Lombardy in 1911 and twelfth in 1920. In 1914 he won the long-distance journey from Vienna to Berlin. Only in 1910 and 1911 did he have a permanent contract with the Polack-Continental company. Then he drove without a permanent contract on his own account.

Aberger also took part in six six- day races in which he took second place twice, in 1913 in Hanover with Willy Techmer and in 1922 in Berlin with Willy Lorenz .

After the end of his active cycling career, Erich Aberger first opened a bicycle shop in Berlin-Neukölln and became race director of the Victoria works . He later became a department head at Scheeren, a manufacturer of rims. He was buried in the Luisenstadt cemetery in Berlin.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Verlag der Radwelt (ed.): Sport album of the Rad world . Strauss-Verlag, Berlin 1920, p. 94 .
2. ↑ Hans Borowik : 300 racing drivers in one volume . Deutscher Schriftenverlag, Berlin 1937, p. 5 .
3. ^ The German cyclist , January 7, 1942

Web links

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• Erich Aberger in the Radsportseiten.net database