Horst Holzmann

Horst Holzmann

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Date of birth	April 27, 1930
date of death	February 26, 2014
nation	Germany
discipline	Train / street
Last updated: June 19, 2016

Horst Holzmann (born April 27, 1930 in Neu-Isenburg ; † February 26, 2014 there ) was a German cyclist .

Life

As a 17-year-old Horst Holzmann won his first German championship title on the road. Before Holzmann won his first championship on the track, he and his standard partner Theo Intra won 30 two-man team races in the 1949 season, so that both of them dominated this discipline. In 1950 he was together with Theo Intra in Dudenhofen with a five lap lead of German champions in the two-man team driving of the amateurs , in the same year he won around Cologne after a 146-kilometer solo trip and duped the favorites mentioned in advance to victory like Willi Irrgang and Valentin Petry . In 1951 Holzmann also won the title of German champion in the amateur road race in Bielefeld by a large margin .

In 1953 Holzmann took second place behind Adolph Verschueren from Belgium at the European championship in standing races . In 1954 he became a professional and then started in 24 six-day races . He did not win, but took second and third places in Dortmund and Berlin .

In 1959 Horst Holzmann ended his cycling career. In 1972 he opened a shop for magazines, small items and Lotto / Toto and in 1978 a bicycle shop in the Isenburg center ; the latter has been run by his son Jürgen Holzmann since 1996. He remained connected to cycling, among other things as the sporting director of the Frankfurt six-day race and in 1980 as co-responsible organizer for the Tour de France start in Frankfurt am Main .

At the funeral for Holzmann after his death in 2014, the cycling journalist Helmer Boelsen said: “Horst Holzmann was a fighter who did not spare himself. When he tore open the whole side of his body after falling on the track in the Waldstadion , he started another big race three days later, but later gave up because of the pain. ”From Frankfurt to Dortmund, the spectators would have him at six days Races are often celebrated with chants, "because he was one who gave everything in the saddle".

successes

1950

• German amateur champion - two-man team driving (with Theo Intra )
• Around Cologne

1951

• German amateur champion - road racing

1953

• European Championship - Standing Race

Web links

• Horst Holzmann in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Horst Reber: Cycling idol buried. (No longer available online.) In: Neu-Isenbuerger Neue Presse. June 1, 2016, archived from the original on June 19, 2016 ; Retrieved June 19, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Interest group for cycling (ed.): The cycling . No. 7/1950 . Sportdienst Verlag Zademack and Noster, Cologne 1950, p. 8 .
3. ↑ Cycling. Illustrated bicycle racing port. Official body of the Federation of German Cyclists . DSV German sports publisher Kurt Stoof. Cologne. No. 31/1. August 1950. p. 2.
4. ↑ Cycling. Illustrated bicycle racing port. Official body of the Federation of German Cyclists . DSV German sports publisher Kurt Stoof. Cologne. No. 10/8. May 1950. p. 3.
5. ↑ The European championships before the establishment of the " Union Européenne de Cyclisme " (UEC) in 1995 are considered unofficial, as they were usually invitation races up to this point in which non-European drivers could also take part.
6. ↑ hre: Meeting of daring IZ icons. Caesars Spezzano and Horst Holzmann have never regretted settling down as business people in the IZ. The two have a friendship. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse, Südausgabe, Local . July 1, 2010, p. 2 (accessed June 20, 2016 via Genios).
7. ↑ Bicycle wood man: 20% birthday discount for two weeks. (No longer available online.) In: Der Isenburger. June 2004, p. 34 , archived from the original on June 20, 2016 ; Retrieved June 20, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Cycling mourns Horst Holzmann. In: rad-net.de. March 4, 2014, accessed June 19, 2016 .