Fritz Schallwig

Fritz Schallwig

Fritz Schallwig (seated, 1916)
To person
Date of birth	May 7, 1890
date of death	1960
nation	German Empire
discipline	Road cycling
Most important successes
Road racing 1911 : 1st place Berlin – Cottbus – Berlin 1921 : 1st place Nuremberg – Munich – Nuremberg

Fritz Hermann Max Schallwig (born May 7, 1890 in Spandau , † 1960 in Hamburg ) was a German racing cyclist .

Fritz Schallwig was active as a racing cyclist before and after the First World War ; his specialties were long-distance and six-day races . In 1910 he won the Berlin-Leipzig-Berlin race . In 1911 he was victorious at Berlin – Cottbus – Berlin and around Magdeburg . At the six-day race in Dresden he took second place together with Richard Grossmann . In 1913 he won the Kiel six-day race with Paul Passenheim .

During the war, Schallwig served as a soldier and was awarded the Iron Cross . In 1921 he won Nürnberg – Munich – Nürnberg , a race over 366 kilometers, which he mastered in 12 hours, 14 minutes and 15 seconds after falling in a race a few months earlier and seriously injured. The following year he ended his cycling career.

Schallwig was married to Emma Tonne from 1917 until the divorce in 1940.

Web links

• Fritz Schallwig in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marriage register StA Berlin-Steglitz, No. 196/1917