Hans Preiskeit

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Hans Preiskeit Road cycling
Hans Preiskeit (1955)
Hans Preiskeit (1955)
To person
Date of birth September 26, 1920
date of death June 26, 1972
nation German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire Germany FR Germany
Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 
Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany 
discipline Road / train
End of career 1956
Societies)
1939-1941 RC Wanderer Chemnitz
Last updated: October 27, 2018

Hans Preiskeit (born September 26, 1920 in Breslau ; † June 26, 1972 in Rosenheim ) was a German racing cyclist and after finishing his career a cycling official.

Cycling career

He started cycling after his older brother Günther, who already trained regularly, took him to a training session in RV 1897 Breslau . At that time, Preiskeit was completing a business apprenticeship.

In a short time he had won 62 youth races and he moved early to the amateur class . When he won the race for the Grand Saxony Prize over 270 kilometers in 1938 , he was appointed to the German national team. He also received an offer to start for the RC Wanderer Chemnitz in the future. He then moved to Chemnitz. As a national driver he had a successful year in 1939, he won the Ore Mountains Tour , the Poorvo – Helsinki – Poorvo race (also in 1940) and won the German championship in the team pursuit with his Chemnitz club, as well as in 1940 and 1941 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , but was initially able to continue racing. For example, he won the Tour of Finland . 1941 was also a successful year at first. Outstanding in his victories: the Ore Mountains Tour , Around Swabia , Around Cologne , Around Wroclaw and the Great Diamond Prize in Chemnitz. All victories had been achieved against the German top class. In August his career was interrupted and he was transferred to the Eastern Front . There he suffered a serious head injury in 1942, which resulted in several operations and a two-year hospital stay.

Hans Preiskeit was a professional racing driver from 1946 to 1956 and thus belonged to the first generation of cyclists after the Second World War . As an amateur and a member of the RC Wanderer Chemnitz , he took second place twice at the German amateur road championships in 1940 and 1941 during the war in 1941 and won the race around Cologne . After his return from the Second World War, which had cost him all of his racing equipment, he moved to Munich in 1947 , as races were already being held regularly in Bavaria . While still in Chemnitz, a friend had assembled a racing bike for him from remnants of the Wanderer factory .

In 1947, Preiskeit, who was an all-rounder on rail and road , won Rund um Berlin and the following year Berlin – Cottbus – Berlin . In 1955 he was German road racing champion and won the Rund um Köln . In the same year he started the Tour of Germany , won the mountain prize and finished eighth in the overall ranking.

In 1947 Hans Preiskeit became German champion in two-man team driving with Rudi Mirke and in 1954 for the second time, this time with Ludwig Hörmann . In 1947, Preiskeit, who meanwhile lived in Chemnitz , won three titles in the "East Zone Championship" for professional drivers held in Halle . He also started in 42 six-day races and won three times: 1953 in Hanover with Oscar Plattner , in 1954 in Munich and Münster with Ludwig Hörmann. At the UCI Road World Championships he competed in 1953 (eliminated) and 1955 (20th place).

Sports director

After the end of his active career in 1956, Hans Preiskeit became the sporting director of the Deutschlandhalle in Berlin as well as of the cycle tracks in Nuremberg , Munich, Bregenz and Bamberg . In 1967 and 1968 he was head of the German team at the Tour de France . At the 1972 Olympic Games he was appointed head of the Olympic cycling track in Munich. Before the games started, Preiskeit was killed in a car accident near Rosenheim.

Private

Hans Preiskeit worked with other cyclists in the 1949 German film " Um ein Nasenlänge " (leading role Theo Lingen ).

In 1949 the production company Haky made a film about his life between 1938 and 1949, his successes and sufferings in World War II. The film was titled "und noch" and was shown in 2,000 German cinemas. In 1954, his French colleague Guy Lapébie gave him the nickname “General” because of his natural authority and energy, which he kept in later years.

successes

train

1939
1940
1941
1947
1953
1954

Street

1941
1947
1948
1954
1955

literature

  • Velo Gotha , Brussels 1984, p. 427 f.
  • Roger de Maertelaere, Mannen van de Nacht , Eeklo 2000, p. 237

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 38/1970 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1970, p. 16 .
  2. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 39/1970 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1970, p. 16 .
  3. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 40/1970 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1970, p. 16 .
  4. ↑ Halsport.de ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 398 kB)
  5. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 33/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 8 .
  6. ↑ Illustrated Cycling Express . No. 1/1949 . Express-Verlag, Berlin 1949, p. 4 .
  7. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 41/1970 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1970, p. 19 .
personal data
SURNAME Prize, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1972
Place of death Rosenheim