Gerhard Stubbe

Gerhard Stubbe (born December 31, 1922 in Berlin ; † July 2004 in Ansbach ) was a German cyclist and multiple national champion in cycling .

Stubbe learned the trade of a lathe operator. As an apprentice, he became a member of the Mariendorfer Postverein in Berlin. His first start at Rund um Luckenwalde ended with a fall. He was so successful in track races that he was delegated to a course for the best German youth drivers under the direction of Walter Rütt. His talent was underpinned by winning the German youth championship in road racing. At the age of 16, Gerhard Stubbe drove for RSV Ansbach . In 1942 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht, in 1946 he came back from American captivity and settled in Ansbach. There he started for the Anspach cycling club. In 1946 he achieved 28 victories. In 1947 he and Eugen Hasenforther became German champions in the two-man team driving and achieved 39 more victories (including the German championship of amateurs in the criterion), the following year he won the title in the single pursuit on the track . In 1947 he won the Amateurs road race around Berlin . In the annual ranking of amateurs in all German zones, he came in fifth. In 1948 he won three titles at German championships (in the team time trial , in the team pursuit and in the single pursuit of the amateurs), then he became a professional , drove in the IRA Green Belt , a predecessor of the Germany tour , and won the third stage. In 1949 he won the second stage and in the 1952 Tour of Germany the seventh stage. In 1953 he ended his active cycling career.

literature

• "Dream of the Olympics remained unfulfilled", Fränkische Landeszeitung v. July 13, 1983

Web links

• Gerhard Stubbe in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Express-Verlag (Ed.): Illustrated Radsportexpress . No. 34/1947 . Berlin, S. 5 .
2. ↑ Interest group for cycling (ed.): The cycling . No. 3/4/1948 . Sportdienst Verlag Zademack and Noster, Cologne, p. 4 .