Grand Prix of Hanover (cycling)

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Photo from the start on August 5, 1920 with the four racing cyclists and their places won shortly afterwards (from left): Bauer (1st), Appelhans (4th), Fritsche (2nd) and Saldow (3rd)

The Hanover Grand Prix was a regularly held track cycling event in Hanover . The competition was initiated at the end of the 19th century by Hermann Löns , at that time editor-in-chief of the Hannoversche Anzeiger , and held for the first time in 1897. Löns then reported on this first cycle race on June 13, 1897 in the daily newspaper.

After the Second World War and on October 5, 1945, the Hanover Grand Prix was held again with the approval of the British military authorities on the Velodrome at the Horse Tower . Here triumphed Jean Schorn before Walter Lohmann and Willy Rintelmann .

On a Saturday in 1949 Werner “Potz” Potzernheim won the Hanover Grand Prix on the track at the horse tower ahead of the favorite drivers Willy Trost , Hans Westerhold and Kaufmann; In addition to the proximity to the Hanoverian Continental AG, one of the reasons for Potzernhein's move in 1950 to Hanover, where he initially lived in a pacemaker cabin under the train at the horse tower.

Well-known names like Willy Arend , Walter Rütt and, more recently, Daniel Morelon , Michael Hübner and Lutz Heßlich can be found among the winners of the Grand Prix for Sprinters .

winner

literature

  • Walter Euhus : Major events , in Karin Brockmann, Stefan Brüdermann, Walter Euhus: Hanover rides a bike. History - Sport - Everyday life , booklet accompanying the exhibition in the Historical Museum Hanover, Braunschweig: Kuhle Buchverlag Braunschweig, 1999, pp. 81–84; here: p. 81ff.

Web links

Commons : Grand Prix of Hanover  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ oV : History of the Lower Saxony Cycling Association ( Memento of the original from September 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Lower Saxony Cycling Association [undated], last accessed on September 6, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radsportverband-niedersachsen.org
  2. ^ Karl-Heinz Beckmann : Hermann Löns. Autograph directory. Loenisa life document series (= Loenisa series of publications by the Scientific Hermann Löns Archive , Vol. 1: Curriculum vitae based on documents (letters and works) from the years 1866 to 1914 ) Ascheberg-Herbern: Scientific Hermann Löns Archive, 2007, ISBN 978 -3-9809324-3-1 and ISBN 3-9809324-3-5 , p. 25; Preview over google books
  3. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : 1945 , in: Hannover Chronik , pp. 189–203; here: p. 200; Preview over google books
  4. ↑ Walter Euhus, Walter Klemp, KPH: Werner Potzernheim / His career began in a pacemaker cabin ( memento of the original from September 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Lower Saxony Cycling Association from May 2, 1996, updated on May 13, 2015, last accessed on September 7, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radsportverband-niedersachsen.org