Horst Aurich

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Horst Aurich Road cycling
Horst Aurich (r.) With Bruno Zieger
Horst Aurich (r.) With Bruno Zieger
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Date of birth June 11, 1913
date of death September 26, 1995
nation Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic
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Last updated: May 17, 2019

Horst Aurich (born June 11, 1913 in Zwickau ; † September 26, 1995 in Leipzig ) was a German cyclist and pacemaker . In 1958 he became a pacesetter of Lothar Meister champion .

Athletic career

Aurich was enthusiastic about cycling from the Leipzig racing driver Rudi Löwe and joined the LRV 98 Leipzig club. Aurich was active as a cyclist from 1929 to 1939 and was temporarily a member of the German national team. After the Second World War , he began his second career in cycling in the GDR, first as a coach, then as a pacemaker in standing races . He assembled his first machine himself, and he carefully selected his first drivers.

Aurich celebrated his greatest success on August 10, 1958 with Lothar Meister I , whom he led as a pacemaker to victory at the UCI World Championships for amateur stayers on the Alfred Rosch arena in Leipzig .

Horst Aurich won the GDR championship title in the stand-up race five times with different stand-up roles. In 1952 he won with Ronny Maraun on the cycling track in Forst in front of more than 12,000 spectators. From 1955 to 1957 he won the title with the Erfurt veteran Bruno Zieger and in 1960 with Lothar Meister I. In addition, there were further second and third places in championship races. When they won the title in 1955, the victorious team set a new GDR record, which for the first time exceeded the mark of 70 kilometers per hour, they drove 70.8 kilometers. He achieved other good international results at the Grand Standing Prizes in Copenhagen (with Bruno Zieger) and London (with Lothar Meister I).

Professional

Aurich's learned profession was toolmaker . From 1968 to 1973 he was the technical director of the track cyclists at ASK Vorwärts Leipzig .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 25/1954 . Berlin 1954, p. 8 .
  2. a b c Wolfgang Taubmann, Johannes Zimoch, Wilfried Schulz (eds.): Standing up again and again . Spotless-Verlag (cooperation), Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-937943-03-X , p. 181 .
  3. a b General Secretariat of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Illustrated Radrennsport . No. 13/1952 . Sportverlag, Berlin 1952, p. 3 .
  4. ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 31/1955 . Berlin 1955, p. 123 .
  5. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 31/1956 . Berlin 1956, p. 6 .
  6. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 29/1957 . Berlin 1957, p. 3 .