Gerhard Schulze (cycling official)
Gerhard Schulze (born September 21, 1899 ; † May 22, 1976 ) was a German cycling official and from 1955 to 1959 President of the Association of German Cyclists (BDR).
During the time of the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945, Gerhard Schulze was already active as a sports functionary, as a Reich youth specialist for the National Socialist Reich Association for physical exercises . In 1940 he wrote in the organ of the German Cyclist Association , Der Deutsche Radfahrer : “Today every German recognizes that the inexhaustible source of life for securing the next generation in German sport is anchored solely in the Hitler Youth . [...] In the trinity we create body, mind and soul for those German people for some protection and the immortal glory of the Greater German Reich. ”When Schulze was BDR President, the Cologne cycling manager Ernst Berliner , who was upset because of his Jewish origins Germany had to flee, in 1959 in a letter to the journalist Adolf Klimanschewsky that the current BDR president was a “leader of the Nazi girls”.
In 1955 Gerhard Schulze was elected President of the BDR. During his tenure, Saarland was brought into the BDR as the 15th regional association, and he integrated the Federal Association of Moped Drivers into the association; a planned renaming of the BDR in the Bund Deutscher Rad- und Mopedfahrer did not materialize. His attempt to officially introduce women's cycling in Germany, since the first world championships were also held for women in the same year, remained unsuccessful. In 1956 Der Spiegel criticized the fact that Schulze's presidium had traveled in large numbers to the 1956 World Championships in Copenhagen and had attended receptions, but did not support the athletes.
At the general assembly of the BDR in 1959 Schulze resigned together with almost the entire presidium in order to forestall being voted out. Schulze was accused of serious mistakes in the negotiation of the joint Olympic team of BDR and the GDR cycling association DRSV . One consequence was that the team of the all-German team for the 100-kilometer team time trial at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome consisted exclusively of GDR drivers, who won silver, however.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Renate Franz : The forgotten world champion. The mysterious fate of the cyclist Albert Richter . Covadonga , Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-936973-34-1 , p. 165 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Schoppe / Werner Ruttkus : Step by step. From 13 decades of history of the Association of German Cyclists . Frehner Consulting, Füssen 2012, ISBN 978-3-929371-23-9 , p. 98 .
- ^ Cycling World Championships: Federal German breakdowns . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1956, pp. 37 ( online ).
1884–1893 Carl Hindenburg | 1894–1896 Rudolf Vogel | 1896–1897 Ludwig Holtbuer | 1897–1914 Theodor Böckling | 1915–1922 Paul Martin | 1923–1924 Heinrich Stevens | 1925–1927 Hans Totschek | 1927–1928 Georg Schweinitz | 1928–1932 Carl Moshagen | 1932–1933 Franz Eggert | 1933–1935 Franz Ohrtmann | 1935–1936 Franz Eggert | 1948–1950 Hans A. Müller | 1950–1955 Kurt Kühn | 1955–1959 Gerhard Schulze | 1959–1970 Erwin Hauck | 1970 Hans Bandele | 1971–1981 Hans-Joachim Hangstein | 1981–1997 Werner Göhner | 1997–2001 Manfred Böhmer | 2001–2004 Sylvia Schenk | 2004–2005 Fritz Ramseier | since 2005 Rudolf Scharping
Between 1933 and 1948 the German Association was called the Deutscher Radfahrer-Verband (DRV), and the association leaders were appointed. From 1937 to 1945 the DRV was led by Viktor Brack , who was executed as a convicted war criminal in 1948.
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| SURNAME | Schulze, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cycling official and President of the Association of German Cyclists |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1899 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 1976 |