Heinz Wengler

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Heinz Wengler (born September 27, 1912 in Bielefeld ; † October 1, 1942 ) was a German racing cyclist .

Wengler began doing organized cycling in 1927 as a member of the RC Zugvogel cycling club in Bielefeld . At the end of his first season he had won 19 ribbons. In the early 1930s he was part of the German amateur national railway team, which had been formed by Willy Frenzel from Leipzig. At times he was even a member of the national rail and road teams. In the 1934 season he won 30 track races and the road race across the Ravensburger Land . In his professional career , which lasted from 1937 until his death in 1942 and during which he rode for the Bielefeld cycling team Dürkopp , he won two important races.

Wengler had his most successful year in 1937, when he won the second part of the 17th stage of the Tour de France , on a par with Belgian Adolphe Braeckeveldt , and a stage of the Tour of Germany . He was also a successful stalker on the track . In 1938 he finished tenth overall in the Tour of Germany. Because of his petite stature, his cycling colleagues called him "Mr. Schmal". Wengler died as a soldier on the Eastern Front in World War II .

literature

  • Rolf Seyfahrt: Cycling fever . Chemnitz 2009, pp. 152-153

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 120 years of the Association of German Cyclists - 120 years of cycling in Leipzig ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ a b Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (ed.): Cycling Week . No. 2/1962 . Berlin, S. 16 .

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SURNAME Wengler, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1942