Gerhard Huschke

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Gerhard Huschke as a pacemaker in a race in Berlin (1956) ahead of Siegfried Wustrow.

Gerhard Huschke (born June 29, 1914 in Berlin ; † August 8, 1974 there ) was a German racing cyclist and pacemaker .

Athletic career

Gerhard Huschke was a successful road cyclist in the 1930s . Before Huschke started cycling, he was a very talented and successful hockey player at VfB Pankow. Already at the age of 15 he played regularly in the first men's team.

Even as an amateur he drove very successfully, so that he decided to switch to the professional camp in 1934. His last great success as an amateur was the victory at the Grand Street Prize of Silesia at the end of 1933. His greatest success was fourth place at the World Road Championships in Leipzig in 1934 . In the same year he won the Great Street Prize in Hamburg and came third in Rund um Berlin . Like many other racing drivers, he had to interrupt his career for three years because he was drafted into the military. In 1945 he returned from captivity and needed many months to recover physically, so that he did not return to cycling until 1946 at the cinder track races.

After the Second World War , Huschke u. a. also active as a stalker . In 1950, at the age of 36, he was two more GDR champions for professional drivers over 100 kilometers and over an hour (analogous to today's points race ). He won other races, including the first standing race on the Berlin winter track in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle and in 1952 the inaugural race on the reconstructed Forst Radrennbahn . In the 1950s he was looked after by his uncle Richard Huschke at the races . He achieved second place at the East Zone Championship in two-man team driving in 1947 with Alfred Lohrke as a partner.

In 1957, Huschke switched to pacemaker . He led drivers like Siegfried Wustrow , Bert Romijn (Netherlands), Roland Elste , Peter Gröning , Konrad Nentwig , Karl Riedel and Ullrich Manthey and won the Berlin International Championship twice.

Gerhard Huschke made a name for himself nationally and internationally as a designer in standing sport. Without exception, machines designed by him were used on the winter railway from 1958 until the fall of the river. Pacemaker machines designed by him led the Italian team Virginio Pizzali / Bruno Pellizari to victories in the world criterion for endurance riders in 1957 and Georg Stoltze behind Fritz Erdenberger at the 1960 World Cup in Leipzig . At a UCI congress in Copenhagen, his pacemaker machines were declared international standards for many years.

Professional

Gerhard Huschke was one of the directors of VEB IFA Vertrieb Berlin until his death in 1974.

Familiar

He was the son of the fatally injured racing cyclist Adolf Huschke and the father of Thomas Huschke .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Illustrated Cycling Express . No. 5/1948 . Express-Verlag, Berlin, p. 36 .
  2. ↑ Illustrated Cycling Express . No. 2/1948 . Illustrierter Radsportexpress, Berlin, p. 12 .
  3. ^ Cycling Week , April 16, 1957
  4. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 34/1974 . Berlin, S. 4 .

literature

  • 100 years Forster Radrennbahn & Radsport in Forst , ed. from the city of Forst, 2006, ISBN 3-00-018303-5

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personal data
SURNAME Huschke, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cycling trainer
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1974
Place of death Berlin