Gottfried Huertgen

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Gottfried Hürtgen (born November 27, 1905 in Cologne , † after 1952 in Argentina ) was a German track cyclist who specialized in six-day races.

biography

At the end of the 1920s and until the mid-1930s, Gottfried Hürtgen (nickname "Ühm" = Kölsch for "uncle" or "old man") was one of Germany's six-day stars. The driving pairing with Viktor Rausch from Cologne was particularly legendary until the two fell out in the early 1930s. In their hometown of Cologne, the two drivers were revered as the "black hussars", and the Cologne composer Willi Ostermann wrote in their honor: "That was a spurt, that was a feeling, long live intoxication, long live Hürtgen!"

Hürtgen started in 56 six-day races, eight of which he won - five of them with intoxication. When there were no more six-day races in Germany after 1934 and because he was married to a Jew, Hürtgen emigrated to Argentina in 1940 with his wife Magdalena Hackbarth. In Cologne he was registered in Einhardstrasse in Sülz until 1939 . On August 13, 1940, the couple reached Buenos Aires with the Uruguay . Hürtgen had created another financial pillar for himself in Argentina, where he had already competed several times. He won the six-day race in Buenos Aires three times , twice with Karl Göbel and once with Raffaele Di Paco . In 1942 he became the Argentine stand-up master. He came back to Germany to visit; so he was in 1939 and 1941 third in German championships in sprint .

In 1950, the Jewish cycling manager Ernst Berliner wrote in a letter to the Berlin journalist Fredy Budzinski , Hürtgen, that although he was not a National Socialist , he was "the dirtiest character I have ever met", "ungrateful and unpopular with his comrades". Not his wife was of Jewish origin, but their stepfather, a French canning manufacturer : "Today all of the above live together in Argentina."

After finishing his active cycling career, Hürtgen ran a bee farm in Argentina. He covered the distances between his 400 bee colonies on a racing bike. The time of his death is not known.

Achievements - Six Days

1928
1930
1931
1937
1940

literature

  • Renate Franz : The forgotten world champion. The mysterious fate of the Cologne racing cyclist Albert Richter . Edition Covadonga, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-936973-34-1 , p. 110 (reprint of the Cologne 1998 edition).
  • Roger de Maertelaere: Mannen van de night. 100 years of zesdaagsen . Eeklonaar, Eeklo 2000, ISBN 90-74128-67-X , p. 216.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 42/1964 . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne, p. 9 .
  2. ↑ Greven's Cologne Address Book 1939/4. In: GenWiki. January 15, 2015, accessed March 6, 2019 .
  3. ^ Passenger list of the Ship Uruguay arriving on Aug 13, 1940 to Argentina. In: hebrewsurnames.com. August 13, 1940. Retrieved March 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Illustrierter Radsport-Express , Vol. 1 (1947), No. 2. P. 12.
  5. ^ Renate Franz : Fredy Budzinski. Cycling journalist, collector and chronicler (=  series of publications of the Central Library of Sports Sciences of the German Sport University Cologne . Volume 7 ). Sportverlag Strauss, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-939390-43-5 , p. 87 .
  6. ↑ Cycling , No. 2/1952. P. 11
personal data
SURNAME Huertgen, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH after 1944
Place of death Argentina