Erich Hagen
Erich Walter Hagen (born December 11, 1936 in Leipzig ; † May 26, 1978 near Leipzig) was a GDR cyclist .
Life
The early career
At the age of 19 Erich Hagen (nickname: "Scheeks") won the GDR road championship in 1956 and was nominated for the all-German Olympic team for 1956 because of this surprising success. At the Games in Melbourne he reached 22nd place in the individual time trial . Since the team ranking was decided by adding up the individual placements of the best three drivers in a country, Hagen only missed the bronze medal by four places, as his teammates Horst Tüller (4th), Täve Schur (5th) and Reinhold Pommer (18th ) ) placed in front of him. By then he had won two national championship titles in the 100 km team time trial with his club SC DHfK Leipzig (1956, 1957).
In 1958, Hagen made the final breakthrough in the GDR national team. He took part in the Peace Tour for the first time and finished 23rd in the overall individual ranking. In the same year he achieved a record in the GDR tour when he was able to finish four stages in a row as a winner. Then he took part in a road World Cup for the first time and was 26th in Reims, France. The following year he was able to qualify again for the World Cup team and finished 19th. In 1958 he managed the feat of winning national races thirteen times in a row. Among other things, he won the difficult Harz Tour .
1960: Peace driving victory and Olympic medal
In 1960 Erich Hagen was part of the outstanding GDR team in the peace trip . He won the eleventh stage from Dresden to his hometown Leipzig and was in second place in the overall standings before the last leg behind his teammate Egon Adler . Since he had a hard fall at the beginning of the final stage to Berlin and lost contact with the main field, Hagen remained the GDR's last "hot iron" for the individual ranking. Despite constant attacks from the Belgians, Danes and other teams, he was able to leave his worst rival Jean-Baptiste Claes (BEL) behind in the final sprint and won his second stage, the overall individual and with the GDR also the team classification. He also won the classic Rund um die Hainleite .
At the Olympic Games in Rome , Hagen and the GDR team (Schur, Adler, Hagen, Günter Lörke ) won the silver medal in the 100 km team time trial despite Lörke's early abandonment and Adler's strong slump .
He finished the road race of the Amateur World Championships in 1960 on the Sachsenring in 50th place.
At the end of the year, Hagen, together with his Friedensfahrt colleagues Schur, Adler, Manfred Weißleder , Bernhard Eckstein and Johannes Schober, was named Team of the Year in the GDR.
In the peace run in 1961, Hagen again won the stage to Berlin and finished ninth in the overall ranking. In Sweden he won a two-stage trip. In connection with negative comments about the construction of the Berlin Wall, Hagen was excluded from the GDR national team and the SC DHfK Leipzig club in 1961, and transferred to BSG Motor Schkeuditz in 1962. In 1963 he started again for DHfK Leipzig and for the last time at the Friedensfahrt elimination races and the GDR tour (59th place), was then no longer named for the Olympic squad for Tokyo in 1964, whereupon he only ended his career at the age of 27.
Late years and death
After the end of his sporting career, Erich Hagen worked as a taxi driver. He died in a traffic accident on the autobahn near Leipzig. It has been suggested that due to family issues, he intentionally steered the car against a bridge.
successes
- Olympic silver medal in the 100 km team time trial in 1960
- Victory at the International Peace Tour in 1960
- 3 stage victories in the International Peace Tour (1960–1961)
Awards (selection)
- 1960: Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
literature
- Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 .
Web links
- Most successful stage winners in the peace ride
- Most frequent wearer of the yellow jersey during the Peace Tour
- Cycling4fans.de
- Erich Hagen in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Erich Hagen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (ed.): Cycling Week . No. 14/1958 . Berlin 1958, p. 5 .
- ↑ Cycling week . Berlin 1958.
1948 August Prosenik | 1948 Aleksandar Zorić | 1949 Jan Veselý | 1950 Willy Emborg | 1951 Kaj Allan Olsen | 1952 Ian Steel | 1953 Christian Pedersen | 1954 Eluf Dalgaard | 1955, 1959 Täve Schur | 1956 Stanisław Królak | 1957 Nentscho Christow | 1958 Piet Damen | 1960 Erich Hagen | 1961 Yuri Melichow | 1962 Gainan Saidchushin | 1963 Klaus Ampler | 1964 Jan Smolík | 1965 Gennady Lebedev | 1966 Bernard Guyot | 1967 Marcel Maes | 1968 Axel Peschel | 1969 Jean-Pierre Danguillaume | 1970, 1971, 1973, 1975 Ryszard Jan Szurkowski | 1972 Vlastimil Moravec | 1974 Stanisław Szozda | 1976 Hans-Joachim Hartnick | 1977 Aavo Pikkuus | 1978 Alexander Awerin | 1979, 1984 Sergei Sukhoruchenkow | 1980 Yuri Barinow | 1981 Shachid Sagretdinov | 1982, 1986 Olaf Ludwig | 1983 Falk Boden | 1985 Lech Piasecki | 1987, 1988, 1989, 1998 Uwe Ampler | 1990 Ján Svorada | 1991 Viktor Rschaksinsky | 1992, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2003 Steffen Wesemann | 1993 Jaroslav Bílek | 1994 Jens Voigt | 1995 Pavel Padrnos | 2000 Piotr Wadecki | 2001 Jakob Piil | 2002 Ondřej Sosenka | 2004 Michele Scarponi | 2006 Giampaolo Cheula
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hagen, Erich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hagen, Erich Walter (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German racing cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 1978 |
| Place of death | near Leipzig |