Täve Schur

Täve Schur

"Täve" Schur on the peace trip in 1955
To person
Nickname	Täve
Date of birth	February 23, 1931
nation	DDR Germany
discipline	Road, cross-country
Driver type	Tourists, time trialists
To the team
Current team	End of career
Societies)
until 1951 1951–1954 1954–1964	BSG Grün-Rot Magdeburg BSG Development Börde Magdeburg SC (science) DHfK Leipzig
Most important successes
International stage races Winner of the International Peace Tour 1955 Winner of the International Peace Tour 1959 Olympic games Second in the team time trial in 1960 Olympic third in the team championship 1956 World championships World champion in the road individual race 1958 , 1959 GDR master GDR champions in street races in 1954, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961 GDR champions in team time trial 1957, 1958 GDR cross-country champion in 1953
Last updated: February 23, 2016

Gustav Adolf "Täve" Schur (born February 23, 1931 in Biederitz , district Heyrothsberge , district Jerichow I , province of Saxony , Prussia ) is a former German cyclist . He was nine times athlete of the year in the GDR , more often than any other athlete. He was the first German to win the World Amateurs Championship and the International Peace Tour. From 1958 to 1990 he was a member of the Volkskammer for the FDJ , SED and PDS . From 1998 to 2002 Schur belonged to the PDS parliamentary group in the German Bundestag .

Life

Gustav Adolf Schur, who became known by his nickname Täve (derived from Gustav), grew up in Heyrothsberge near Magdeburg and trained as a machine mechanic .

Sports career

Schur with his trainer Herbert Weisbrodt in 1957

Schur on the first stage of the peace drive in 1960

He started cycling at the age of 19 at BSG Grün-Rot Magdeburg , which was affiliated to the cycling section of BSG Aufbau Börde Magdeburg in 1951 . However, he had completed his first race as a touring driver in 1950. He started in the general class and within a year qualified through performance class II into the top performance class of GDR cycling. On September 23, 1951, Schur won the GDR one-day race around Berlin . In the following year, Schur was a member of the GDR selection for the International Peace Tour for the first time , which he finished with three podium positions after twelve stages in tenth place overall. At the Peace Trip in 1953 , Schur took third place in the overall individual ranking and was instrumental in ensuring that the GDR team under captain Paul Dinter was able to win the blue jersey of the best team for the first time . At the national level, victories followed in the GDR tour and the GDR championship in cross-country . At the end of 1953, Schur won the first-ever public survey on GDR athlete of the year .

In 1954 Schur won his first national championship on the road. He also successfully defended his title at the GDR Tour and was the best-placed German participant at the World Championships in Solingen , finishing sixth in the amateur class. At the end of the year he was again GDR athlete of the year.

In the period that followed, Schur - now a member of the SC Wissenschaft DHfK Leipzig sports club  - finally established himself as the figurehead of GDR cycling and celebrated another five championship titles in individual road races and four overall victories in the GDR tour by 1961. Schur experienced his international sporting breakthrough in 1955 during the Peace Drive , when he achieved the first victory of a GDR driver in the overall individual classification. In 1959, he was also the first participant in the history of peace journeys to win the yellow jersey again. Schur was called up twelve times in the GDR squad for the peace trip, where he achieved two overall and nine stage wins.

At the world championships , Schur had narrowly missed precious metal until 1957, before he finally became world champion in 1958 and won the rainbow jersey as the first GDR driver and the second German . In the following year he succeeded as the first amateur world champion to defend his title, making him a favorite for the 1960 title fights in the GDR. But despite the home advantage Schur was denied the World Cup hat trick when he crossed the finish line in second behind surprise winner Bernhard Eckstein . Nevertheless, on August 13, 1960, Täve Schur finally became an athlete's legend, as his tactical decision to sacrifice his own chances of victory to the possible success of his teammate was given particular attention in the GDR media and appreciated accordingly. In 1960, Schur won the poll for Sportsman of the Year for the eighth time in a row.

In both 1956 and 1960 Schur took part in the Summer Olympics as a member of the all-German team . In 1956 in Melbourne he finished fifth in the individual race and thus had a significant share in winning the bronze medal in the team classification . In 1960 , Schur was part of the silver-decorated foursome in the first team time trial in Rome .

After he was able to become stage winner for the last time in the Peace Race in 1960 and only 16th in the final classification, he was ranked 8th in 1961, around 20 minutes behind overall winner Melichow. In the same year he then improved a special record in the GDR tour when he finished five stages in a row as the winner. He was then GDR road champion for the sixth time and took part in the UCI road world championship in Switzerland for the last time, where he finished 23rd in the main field.

In 1963, Schur completed his DHfK studies in Leipzig with his trainer diploma and, after a one-year break, again took part in the peace trip as captain of the victorious GDR team. In the overall standings, he ranked 10th. In June 1963, he was the last winner of a circuit race in Torgau to cross the finish line. A year later he took part in the Course de la Paix for the twelfth time and remained the holder of this record until the end. In 1964 he was only able to be third and 17th in the overall standings, but again lead the GDR sextet to team victory. After the German-German Olympic qualification races for Tokyo, Schur ended his active career at the age of 33 and switched to coaching, where he worked until 1973. Then Schur was deputy chairman of the DTSB district board in Magdeburg.

In 1969, a meeting of 13 prominent former participants in the international peace voyage was organized on September 29th by the GDR television network, more precisely by the entertainment program "Spiel mit". 12 of them started a celebrity race in Schur's hometown Heyrothsberge. The race led to Magdeburg, where more than 20,000 spectators awaited the drivers. Among the starters were u. a. Stan Brittain , Romeo Venturelli , Louis Proost , Piet Damen , Wiktor Kapitonow , Livio Trape , Vagn Bangsborg and Stanislaw Gazda .

Besides the sport

Gustav-Adolf Schur (2nd from left) visiting VEB Berlin-Chemie

Volkskammer member Gustav-Adolf Schur (front) at a special meeting in 1988

Gustav-Adolf Schur is a father of four. With his eldest son Jan Schur , Olympic champion in 1988 and world champion in 1989 in the 100 km team time trial, as well as a participant in the 1988 Peace Ride, one of his children can also refer to a successful cycling career.

In 1979 he took first place in a survey carried out on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the GDR to find the best and most popular GDR athletes of all time. In a similar election on the 40th anniversary of the state in 1989, Schur was elected first with almost half of all votes, 25 years after the end of his active career.

With his loyalty to the people and loyalty to the line, Täve Schur also played the role of a heroic model citizen in GDR propaganda. Schur already had a mandate for the People's Chamber when he was active , which he held from 1958 to 1990, first for the FDJ and later for the SED and PDS. In 1998 he entered the Bundestag via the state list of the PDS Saxony , of which he was a member until 2002. For the parliamentary group, he acted as a sports policy spokesman and was particularly committed to popular sports . Even though he was a sports star , as a racing cyclist he always saw himself as part of the team, the collective.

Schur was chairman of the Friedensfahrt Course de la Paix e. V. for the preservation and continuation of the cycle race of the same name and the Peace Travel Museum in Kleinmühlingen (Saxony-Anhalt), where exhibits on the Peace Ride - prizes, jerseys, pictures and other things - can be viewed.

In 1963 Schur played in the children's film Daniel and the World Champion . In 1990 he had a supporting role in the feature film Last from Da Da eR .

Täves bike shop & manufactory in Magdeburg

Schur has been running a bicycle shop in Magdeburg since 1992. The owner is his son Gus-Erik Schur , who also competed successfully in cycling races. Täves Radladen & Manufaktur supports the RC Lostau cycling club, whose members take part in cycling races across Europe under the name Team Täves Radladen. Täve Schur also holds numerous honorary posts and gives lectures.

In 2005, the asteroid 2000 UR, discovered on October 16, 2000 in the Drebach (Ore Mountains) public observatory, was named after Schur. It moves in the asteroid belt between the planets Mars and Jupiter around the sun and bears the official name (38976) Taeve .

Even after the reunification and peaceful revolution in the GDR, Schur supported the ideas of socialism and belongs to the party Die Linke .

Familiar

In addition to his son Jan , who won the gold medal in the team time trial at the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 , his son Gus-Erik was also active as a cyclist for several years at SC DHfK Leipzig. His younger brother Heinz (* 1937) also drove for a number of years for the Leipzig Sports Club. Schur has two sisters and two brothers.

criticism

Schur was one of the candidates for inclusion in the Hall of Fame of German Sports , along with 22 other people . Schur's nomination met with resistance from the Association for Doping Victims Aid . So criticized Ines Geipel , Andreas Krieger and other East German doping victims in an open letter that Schur one "was central propaganda figure of the criminal GDR sports, more than 30 years deputy in the parliament of the GDR was". In addition, they accused Schur, who had voted against the Doping Victims Aid Act in 2002, of having voted in the Bundestag against the clarification of the "GDR body laboratory" and against compensation for the victims of GDR sport and described him as a "notorious denier of history the abusive activities in GDR sport trivialized and the victims coldly discredited. ”In a public statement, those responsible at the Deutsche Sporthilfe Foundation defended their decision on Schur, because“ according to current knowledge, there is no personified, justiciable evidence of misconduct that would have contradicted a candidacy ". In August 2011, Schur denied state compulsory doping in GDR sport at a book presentation . In previous years, Schur was repeatedly accused by critics of glorifying GDR injustice, with reference to his statements on the East German doping network, his views on the legitimation of the building of the wall and the order to shoot at the inner German border . Ultimately, Schur was not accepted into the Hall of Fame, which was criticized in the new federal states.

Awards (selection)

• 1957: Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
• 1959: Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
• 1960: Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold
• 1969: Gold medal for the Patriotic Order of Merit

literature

Books about Täve Schur

• Gustav-Adolf Schur , in Internationales Sportarchiv 19/2005 from May 14, 2005 (ph), in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)
• Klaus Gallinat, Olaf W. Reimann:  Schur, Gustav-Adolf (called Täve) . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Below is an overview of all 14 books that have been written about him or by him so far (in chronological order):

• Adolf Klimanschewsky : Täve. The life picture of an athlete of our time . Sport Verlag, Berlin 1955.
• Klaus Ullrich : Our Täve. A book about Gustav Adolf Schur. Sport-Verlag, Berlin 1959.
• Klaus Ullrich: Our world champion. Sport-Verlag, Berlin 1959.
• Uwe Johnson : The third book about Achim . Suhrkamp , Frankfurt am Main 1962.
• Klaus Huhn : The fourth book about Täve . Spotless-Verlag , Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-928999-04-4 .
• Tilo Köhler : The favorite drove Kowalit. Täve Schur and the journey of peace. Kiepenheuer, Leipzig 1997, ISBN 3-378-01015-0 .
• Klaus Huhn: The candidate. Spotless-Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-928999-93-1 .
• Andreas Ciesielski : Täve. A legend became 70. Scheunen-Verlag, Kückenshagen 2001, ISBN 3-934301-47-9 .
• Gustav-Adolf Schur: The autobiography. Das Neue Berlin Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-360-00948-7 .
• Klaus Ullrich, Klaus Köste : The 9th (ninth) book about Schur. Spotless-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-933544-60-2 .
• Andreas Ciesielski: Typical Täve. Scheunen-Verlag, Kückenshagen 2006, ISBN 3-938398-22-1 .
• Gustav-Adolf Schur: Täve, the autobiography. Gustav Adolf Schur tells his life. Verlag Das Neue Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-355-01783-1 .
• Gustav-Adolf Schur: Fame and me. Spotless-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-360-02054-3 .
• Gustav-Adolf Schur: Täve, the autobiography. Gustav Adolf Schur tells his life. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-355-01783-1 .
• Gustav-Adolf Schur: What is important to me. New Life, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-355-01893-7 .

More articles:

• Stefan Schweizer: Täve Schur and the image of the "diplomats in training suits". In: Karin Hartewig, Alf Lüdtke (ed.): The GDR in the picture. For the use of photography in the other German state. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-790-X , pp. 69-86.
• Norbert Rossbach: Täve. The cyclist Gustav-Adolf Schur. In: Silke Satjukow , Rainer Gries (Ed.): Socialist heroes. A cultural history of propaganda figures in Eastern Europe and the GDR. Links-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-86153-271-9 , pp. 133-146.
• Alexander Osang: A useful hero. In: Berliner Zeitung . April 4, 1998

Web links

Commons : Täve Schur  - Collection of Images

• Täve Schur in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Täve Schur in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Täve Schur in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Täve Schur in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Christoph Richter: The controversial legend www.deutschlandradiokultur.de, February 21, 2016
• Täve Schur at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 15/1955 . Sportverlag, Berlin 1955, p. 9 .
2. ^ ^{A b c} Volker Kluge: Lexicon athletes in the GDR. Verlag Das Neue Leben, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6 , p. 423 ff.
3. ↑ Deutsches Sport-Echo: Sport-Almanach 1958. Sportverlag Berlin, 1957, p. 212.
4. ^ Deutsches Sport-Echo: Sport-Almanach 1959. Sportverlag Berlin, 1958, p. 187.
5. ^ Deutsches Sport-Echo: Sport-Almanach 1960. Sportverlag Berlin, 1959, p. 179.
6. ^ Deutsches Sportecho: Sport-Almanach 1961. Sportverlag Berlin, 1960, p. 134.
7. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 , p. 392.
8. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 , p. 555.
9. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 41/1969 . Berlin 1969, p. 16 .
10. ^ Volker Kluge: Lexicon athletes in the GDR. Verlag Das Neue Leben, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6 , p. 543.
11. ↑ Klaus Ulrich Huhn: Gustav-Adolf Schur - the star and the collective. In: Arnd Krüger , Swantje Scharenberg : Times for Heroes - Times for Celebrities in Sports. (= Series of publications by the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History. Volume 22). Lit, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-643-12498-2 .
12. ↑ The Little Peace Tour keeps memories alive. ( Memento from May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on: friedensfahrt-museum.de , September 25, 2009. Interview with Gustav-Adolf Schur.
13. ↑ A Magdeburg cycling idol. In: State capital Magdeburg: bicycle traffic conception. Pp. 4-7. Interview with Schur; accessed on February 4, 2010 (PDF; 4.7 MB)
14. ↑ The restless Täve. ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Superillu. February 22, 2006, accessed February 11, 2010.
15. ↑ Die Linke: We congratulate our comrade Täve Schur on his 85th birthday
16. ↑ Neues Deutschland (Ed.): XII. International Peace Trip Berlin-Prague-Warsaw 1959 . Berlin 1959, p. 20 .
17. ↑ Consultations on the Doping Victims Aid Act and the establishment of a fund to support doping victims in the GDR (PDF; 1.3 MB, p. 24501), German Bundestag - 14th electoral period - 243rd session. Berlin, June 14, 2002.
18. ↑ trivializing abuse. Germany Radio, April 27, 2011.
19. ↑ Doping victims criticize Hall of Fame. In: Der Spiegel.
20. ↑ The breaks in history also affect sport. In: Badische Zeitung.
21. ↑ Frank Bachner: A model country for athletic health. In: Der Tagesspiegel . August 6, 2011.
22. ^ GDR legend Gustav-Adolf Schur called "Täve". on: faz.net , November 25, 2011.