Fritz Schrefeld

Fritz Schrefeld

Fritz Schrefeld (center) after a race in the German Stadium Berlin (1918)
To person
Date of birth	November 14, 1890
date of death	after 1960
nation	German Empire
discipline	Track cycling, road cycling
Societies)
	Berlin cycling club Concordia
Most important successes
German railway championships 1917, 1919, 1920 : - Sprint (amateurs)

Fritz Schrefeld (born November 14, 1890 in Berlin , † after 1970) was a German cyclist and trotting driver .

As a child, Fritz Schrefeld was an excellent gymnast before he got into cycling . At the age of 16 he decided to become a professional racing driver , but dropped this idea after a serious fall in a track race . In 1909 he volunteered for the Lübben hunters . He joined the Berlin cycling club Concordia in 1897 and now competed in races as an amateur ; later he belonged to a training group around world champion Walter Rütt , who trained in the German stadium . In 1913 he became German runner-up in the sprint on the track.

When the First World War broke out in 1914, Schrefeld was drafted as a soldier. He was awarded the Iron Cross and was transferred to Berlin in 1917 so that he could race again. In the same year he became German champion in the sprint, but was transferred back to the front in Macedonia in 1918 . In 1919 and 1920 he was again German champion in the sprint of amateurs. In 1919 he also won Rund um Berlin .

In 1924 Fritz Schrefeld, who was a trained butcher, began trotting . He was active as an amateur until 1960 and achieved over 400 victories. In 1939, 1940 and 1942 he won the harness racing championship (award for the most victories in one season) and four times he was German amateur champion. In 1960, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, the Berliner Zeitung reported that Schrefeld lived in West Berlin , but competed in races on the Karlshorst trotting track with horses from the state-owned stud farms Lindenhof and Staffelde.

Professional

Schrefeld ran a haulage company in West Berlin after he had finished his career.

Web links

• Fritz Schrefeld in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Sports album of the cycling world. A cycling yearbook. 16.-17. Vintage . Berlin 1919, p. 137 f .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Association of German Cyclists (ed.): Cycling . No. 45/1970 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1970, p. 20 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Berliner Zeitung . November 14, 1960, p. 3
3. ↑ The championship holders for amateur racing drivers. Hall of Fame - German Trotting Sport, accessed on January 31, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Illustrated Cycling Express . No. 2/1948 . Express-Verlag, Berlin, p. 12 .