Eugene Stabe

Eugen Stabe (born July 2, 1885 in Kulm , † October 1, 1968 in Kremmen ) was a German racing cyclist .

Eugen Stabe was one of the best German sprinters in the period before and after the First World War . He drove his first races as an amateur in 1905 and turned pro the following year. For training purposes he moved to Paris for some time, where he set a world record over 1000 meters without a pacemaker. In 1910, Stabe took third place in Rund um Berlin . In 1914 he became German sprint champion, and in 1922 he took third place again.

Stabe also started in 19 six-day races . When the first six-day race took place in Berlin in 1909 , he drove with the French Henri Contenet ; the team took fourth place. In the second Berlin six-day race, Stabe drove with Otto Pawke and was fourth this time too; the two were the first purely German team to end a six-day race together. With Pawke he also won a 24-hour race on the Berlin-Treptow track, in which both covered 818.045 kilometers, in 1910 he won two six-day races with Willy Arend , the one in Bremen and the one in Kiel . In 1921 he won the six-day race in Breslau with Willy Lorenz .

Despite his success on the track, Stabe considered winning the road race from Nuremberg to Munich and back to Nuremberg in 1908 as his greatest achievement. After he believed the race was lost, he made up all the residue with an energetic effort. The prize money of 1,200 marks in gold pieces became the basis of his further career.

Eugen Stabe ended his racing career when he retired from a race in Berlin in 1925. The enthusiastic angler trained as a fish master and leased the Kremmer See from 1934–46. He died of an operation at the age of 83.

literature

• Cycling , October 22, 1968

Web links

• Eugen Stabe in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 8/1964 . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne, p. 10 .
2. ^ Verlag der Radwelt (ed.): Sport album of the Rad world . Strauss-Verlag, Berlin 1920, p. 90 .