Hennes Junkermann

Hennes Junkermann

Hennes Junkermann (1962)
To person
Full name	Hans Junkermann
Date of birth	May 6, 1934
nation	Germany
discipline	Train / street
Driver type	Bahn: perseverance
End of career	1972
Team (s)
1955 1956–1957 1958 1959 1960–1961 1962–1964 1965 1966–1967 1968–1970 1971 1972	Farmer Bertin-the Dura Molteni Faema-Guerra Gazzola Wiel`s-Groene Leeuw Margnat-Paloma-Inuri-Dunlop Torpedo Batavus-Alcina Ruberg Rokado
Most important successes
Tour de Suisse 1959, 1962 - overall victory
Last updated: August 9, 2017

Hans "Hennes" Junkermann (born May 6, 1934 in St. Tönis ) is a former German cyclist . He was a professional driver from 1955 to 1973. He won the Tour de Suisse twice - in 1959 and 1962 . Together with Rudi Altig , Karl-Heinz Kunde and Rolf Wolfshohl , he shaped German professional cycling in the 1960s.

Athletic career

Junkermann in 2010

Before Hennes Junkermann started cycling, he played football in the position of defender , “a role that he seemed to continue on the bike. Because eagerness to attack and willingness to take risks were really not among his most prominent characteristics ”. He was seen as a “shadow man”, who had lost some of the top positions due to the unwillingness to take the reins into his own hands.

At the road world championship in 1954 on the Klingenring in Solingen Junkermann finished tenth in the road race of amateurs (in 1953 he was 32nd in the world championship race). Thereupon there were attempts by GDR functionaries to poach him (as well as Horst Tüller and Emil Reinecke , who - temporarily - accepted) for the GDR . However, since he really wanted to become a professional, he stayed in the West.

The following year Junkermann became a professional driver. In the following 18 years he rode in various professional racing teams together with a number of other cycling greats such as Rik Van Looy , Charly Gaul , Federico Bahamontes and Rudi Altig.

In 1956, Hennes Junkermann was fifth on the Tour des Suisse . In 1957 he won the prestigious Zurich championship race in 1957; a few weeks later he finished fifth in the overall ranking of the Tour de Suisse , and in 1958 he finished second. In 1959 and 1962 he decided this tour for himself. In total, he started ten times in the Swiss Tour, the last time in 1970 when he reached tenth place.

Junkermann competed seven times in the Tour de France and placed three times in the top ten in the overall standings. His best placement was fourth in 1960 .

At the Tour de France 1962 Junkermann - like 13 other riders - had to give up because of supposed fish poisoning . His saying will be remembered: “Had to mix the fish nit jejesse.” In 2013, he took the view in an interview that it was “sabotage”. “They didn't want a little German to win the tour.” The consequences at the time were that hoteliers from Luchon threatened to never receive the tour entourage if the rumors about the food were not corrected. Tour director Jacques Goddet then accused these drivers of doping in L'Équipe , but was unable to provide any evidence. Against this, the sports directors protested the next day .

During his participation in the Tour de France in 1972 Junkermann received a ten-minute time penalty after a doping test positive for ephedrine , after which he gave up because of bronchial inflammation.

Hennes Junkermann was also successful on the track: He started in 96 six-day races, of which he won nine, most of them together with Rudi Altig . Together with Altig he also became European champion in two-man team driving in 1965, and in 1970 he won the European title in the Derny race .

In the course of his cycling career, Hennes Junkermann competed at 19 UCI road world championships and also won 15 German championship titles on track and road .

After cycling

After finishing his professional career in May 1973, Hennes Junkermann worked as a trainer and team leader of the RC Olympia Dortmund and the RSV City Neuwied and at times also had professional cyclists like Erik Zabel and Rolf Aldag in his team. Junkermann lives in Krefeld (as of 2017). In 2019 he celebrated his 85th birthday in good health; he continues to ride his bike every day.

Successes (selection)

Street 1957 Championship of Zurich 1958 one stage Tour de Suisse 1959 Overall ranking and a Tour de Suisse stage German champion - road race 1961 German champion - road race 1962 Overall ranking and two stages of the Tour de Suisse a stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 1963 Around the Henninger Tower

train 1958 German champion - one's pursuit 1960 Six-day race Cologne (with Klaus Bugdahl ) Six days in Münster (with Fritz Pfenninger ) Six days Dortmund (with Klaus Bugdahl ) German champion - two-man team driving (with Klaus Bugdahl ) 1961 European Championship - two-man team driving (with Rudi Altig ) German champion - two-man team driving (with Rudi Altig ) 1962 Berlin six-day race (with Rudi Altig ) Six days in Münster (with Rudi Altig ) German champion - two-man team driving (with Rudi Altig ) 1963 Six days in Essen (with Rudi Altig ) 1964 Six days in Essen (with Rudi Altig ) Six days in Frankfurt (with Rudi Altig ) Six-day race Cologne (with Peter Post ) German champion - two-man team driving (with Rudi Altig ) 1965 European Champion - two-man team driving (with Rudi Altig ) German champion - two-man team driving (with Horst Oldenburg ) 1970 European champion - standing race 1972 Derny European Championship

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	1958	1959	1960	1961	1962	1963	1964	1965	1966	1967	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972
Vuelta a España	-	-	-	-	-	9	-	7th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Giro d'Italia	13	11	14th	6th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Tour de France	-	-	4th	5	DNF	-	9	28	-	11	-	-	-	-	DNF

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Hennes Junkermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Palmarès - List of achievements and placements
• Hennes Junkermann in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Hennes Junkermann in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Hennes Junkermann in the Tour de France database(French / English )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Udo Witte: Campionissimo, Monsieur Chrono, Kannibale & Co. Professional road bike races after 1945. Volume 2: 1960–1975. BoD, 2015, ISBN 978-3-7386-1692-7 , pp. 97 .
2. ^ Peter Zetzsche: Peace ride and Tour de France - Emil Reinecke . Einbeck 2011, p. 25 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Junkermann celebrates his 80th birthday. In: rad-net.de. May 6, 2014, accessed August 9, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Jürgen Löhle: The Tour de France. German professionals and their successes . Delius & Klasing, Bielefeld 2017, ISBN 978-3-667-10922-4 , p. 22 .
5. ↑ ^{a b} Are you still annoyed not to have won the tour, Mr. Junkermann? derwesten.de July 8, 2013
6. ↑ ^{a b} The West: Restless Hennes Junkermann turns 75. In: derwesten.de. May 6, 2009. Retrieved August 9, 2017 . 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Bürte Hoppe: Tour de France. Encyclopedia . Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89533-577-8 , p. 186 .
8. ↑ Ralf Schröder / Hubert Dahlkamp: Not all heroes carry money, The story of the Tour de France . 4th edition. Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89533-829-8 , p. 130 .
9. ↑ Ralf Meutgens: Doping in cycling , Kiel 2007, p. 256.
10. ^ Hennes Junkermann - successes in six-day races. In: kultur-buch.de. Retrieved August 9, 2017 .