Herbert Gerber

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Herbert Gerber (born November 15, 1914 in Bärenwalde ) is a former German cyclist .

Athletic career

Gerber joined the Diamant Hartmannsdorf association at the age of 16 . He contested his first races as an amateur in 1934. As a candidate for the Olympic Games in 1936 , he won the elimination race around the Solitude ahead of Max Bartoskiewicz . His palmares include two victories at Rund um Nürnberg , he won the races Rund um Hannover and Rund um die Landeskrone in Görlitz . From 1937 to 1940, Gerber was a professional driver with a contract at the Presto works in Chemnitz . As a result of the Second World War , his career, like that of many sports comrades, was interrupted. During his time as a professional driver before the Second World War, he lived in Adelsberg near Chemnitz on the edge of the Ore Mountains . There, the then coach of the motorcyclist group Max Günther of Presto-Werke had accommodated the two racing cyclists Herbert Gerber and Hermann Schild in his house. Gerber started in 1937 with his compatriots Otto Weckerling , Ludwig Geyer and Willy Kutschbach at the Giro d`Italia , but gave up the race after a fall.

In the 1938 Tour of Germany he won the Salzburg - Augsburg stage , and in 1939 he was 38th overall. In 1940 he was second in the German championship on the road behind Georg Stach . After the war, he obtained another license as a professional driver in the GDR . With the uprights Sports Gerber began, was looking for ways to start as a professional driver, at this time, first with smaller dirt track race behind small engines. Gerber was not the dominant stayer, he won two races in 1951, in 1953 the Saxony-Anhalt Prize over 100 kilometers, in 1954 he won 6 races. However, he was the only one who could win the title fights in the GDR twice. On June 1, 1952, he won the GDR championship for the professional drivers behind pacemaker Karl-Heinz Kirchner in Chemnitz, ahead of the actual favorites Werner Richter and Hermann Schild. On June 20, 1954, he was able to repeat this success in Zwickau . The race was characterized by adverse weather conditions (intense heat) and a lot of engine damage. With this victory Gerber was the last champion of the GDR in professional cycling.

In the single pursuit over 5000 meters on the track, he won the bronze medal at the championships in 1950.

On February 15, 1955, the GDR cycling federation published a decision of its executive committee, according to which all still active professional drivers and pacemakers were asked to immediately become “members of the democratic sports movement” and to join a company sports community (BSG). All athletes who would take advantage of this opportunity would be exempt from the usual two-year waiting period and would immediately be eligible to start with the amateurs. The decision was of an ultimate nature and ended with a deadline set until February 28, 1955. After it was reamateurised in 1955, it denied the GDR tour for the team of SV Turbine that year . Gerber drove a few more races for the BSG Turbine Karl-Marx-Stadt and ended his sporting career in autumn 1955.

Trainer and functionary

After the end of his career, he became an honorary instructor and technical director at the BSG Turbine Karl-Marx-Stadt. He also worked on the district technical committee for cycling and was temporarily a voluntary district trainer and responsible for the youth training.

Professional

Gerber worked professionally as a river master in the water management of Karl-Marx-Stadt and Chemnitz.

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annotation

The source the Radsportseiten.net gives the victories in Rund um Berlin 1938 and 1939 under Herbert Gerber . The source around Berlin names Bruno Gerber as the winner of both races.

( Winner around Berlin ), Bruno Gerber was a Berlin amateur from the Berliner Radsportclub Sturmvogel 1900.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 5/1953 . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1953, p. 11 .
  2. ↑ Cycling . No. 23/1952 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1952, p. 7 .
  3. ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 7/1955 . Sportverlag, Berlin 1955, p. 8 .
  4. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 48/1974 . Berlin 1974, p. 4 .
  5. ↑ a b c German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 41/1964 . Berlin 1964, p. 5 .
personal data
SURNAME Gerber, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Bear forest