Franz Wilschke

Around 1923: Snapshot ( sports photography ) of the Austrian professional driver Franz Wilschke;
Postcard by the Viennese photographer Carl Zapletal

Franz Wilschke was an Austrian cyclist .

Athletic career

In 1914 Franz Wilschke became a member of the Viennese cycling club Aar . In the same year he contested his first race. During the First World War he was drafted as a soldier and, as a member of the kuk Landsturm Cyclist Battalion, drove military races on the streets. At the war championship over 100 kilometers, he finished tenth. From 1919 Wilschke, who was still considered a "junior" at the time, drove as an amateur for the RC Wiedner Radler 1897 club ; in later years (apparently after his re- amateurization ) he returned to the Aar cycling club. Presumably in 1921 or 1922 he turned professional . He regularly competed in races on the Hernalser Radrennbahn in Vienna .

Wilschke won the title of Austrian professional pilot in 1923 and 1924 as well as for the third time on August 9, 1925 on the bicycle race track in Hernals. There he won with six points from Hans Kaletta, Franz Kaletta and Hermann Kaletta (also Kaleta ). Wilschke was active as a cyclist until at least 1934, but also worked as a functionary. He contested one of his last races as the “old master” in October 1934 on the stadium cycle track in Vienna.

Web links

Commons : Franz Wilschke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Compound search term Franz Wilschke in the digitization project ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online of the Austrian National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cycling. In:  Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Democratic organ / Neues Wiener Abendblatt. Evening edition of the (") Neue Wiener Tagblatt (") / Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Evening edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt / Wiener Mittagsausgabe with Sportblatt / 6 o'clock evening paper / Neues Wiener Tagblatt. Neue Freie Presse - Neues Wiener Journal / Neues Wiener Tagblatt , March 11, 1914, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
2. ↑ Sports. In:  Oesterreichische Morgenzeitung and Handelsblatt / Morgenzeitung and Handelsblatt , June 1, 1916, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).
3. ↑ cycling. In:  foreigners sheet of the imperial and royal capital Vienna / foreigner sheet and tag news of the imperial and royal capital Vienna / foreigner sheet / foreigner sheet with Vedette / foreigner sheet with military supplement Die Vedette , August 8th 1918, p. 15 (online at ANNO ).
4. ^ Street races near Schwechat. In:  Illustrated Österreichisches Sportblatt / Illustrated Sportblatt , June 28, 1919, p. 10 (online at ANNO ).
5. ↑ Track race in Hernals / Wilschke for the third time flying master of Austria. In:  Sportblatt am Mittag / Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , August 10, 1925, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).
6. ^ The stadium track races. In:  Kleine Volks-Zeitung , October 8, 1934, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).
7. ↑ Cycling. In:  Kleine Volks-Zeitung , February 15, 1930, p. 11 (online at ANNO ).
8. ^ The stadium track races. In:  Kleine Volks-Zeitung , October 8, 1934, p. 3 (online at ANNO ).