Hans-Michael Holczer

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Hans-Michael Holczer (born December 22, 1953 in Herrenberg ) is a German cycling manager.

Hans-Michael Holczer on the sidelines of the bike race around the financial center Eschborn-Frankfurt 2011

The teacher for history, mathematics and sport at the Friedrich-Schiller-Realschule in Böblingen was manager of the amateur team RSV Öschelbronn from 1975 to 1996 (1994–1995 RSV HISTOR Öschelbronn , 1996 RSV Schauff Öschelbronn ). In 1997 the cycling team entered professional cycling under the name Schauff Öschelbronn professional cycling team . This team was sponsored by the Gerolsteiner Brunnen company from 1999 and has been called Team Gerolsteiner since then .

In Herrenberg he runs a bike shop and a cycling marketing company.

When Bernhard Kohl, the second Gerolsteiner driver after Stefan Schumacher , was convicted of blood doping in the A-sample with EPO on October 13, 2008 , Hans-Michael Holczer announced his resignation. At the end of April 2009, Davide Rebellin , another driver of his team, tested positive for the doping agent CERA during follow-up checks for the 2008 Olympic Games . On March 29, 2013, Stefan Schumacher confessed to years of doping and publicly accused Holczer of having knowledge of doping practices.

In July 2010, Hans-Michael Holczer published his memoirs in the book Guaranteed positive: My life for cycling . In the 2010/11 school year, Holczer worked again as a teacher at the Friedrich Schiller Realschule in Böblingen.

In mid-September 2011 it was announced that Holczer would be the successor to Andrej Tschmil as General Manager of Katusha Management SA , which u. a. the Katusha team operates, was committed. In early October 2012, despite a four-year contract, he ended his collaboration with the team and was replaced on October 8, 2012 by Vyacheslav Yekimov .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Led by Holzcer Team Gerolsteiner is distinct from Dieter Koslars Team Cologne , which in 1998 also Gerolsteiner team was
  2. ↑ rad-net.de from October 14, 2008: Team Gerolsteiner ends season - Holczer leaves ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Schumacher admits years of doping. Spiegel Online, March 29, 2013, accessed March 29, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Hans-Michael Holczer: Guaranteed positive: My life for cycling. Recorded by Jürgen Löhle. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-7688-3222-9 .
  5. ↑ Perfect! Holczer becomes team boss of Katjuscha on radsport-news.com v. September 15, 2011
  6. ↑ dpad: Holczer: Katusha experiment ended prematurely. cycling news, October 8, 2012, accessed October 8, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Holczer, Hans-Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cycling manager
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Herrenberg