Horst Tüller

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Horst Tüller (left) and Fritz Geschäftsling became GDR champions in the 100-kilometer team race in 1956

Horst Tüller (born February 5, 1931 in Wuppertal ; † June 4, 2001 in Berlin ) was a racing cyclist who won an Olympic bronze medal in the team championship of the road race in 1956 .

Cycling career

Horst Tüller was a trained businessman and successful amateur driver in Wuppertal, where he started for the SSV Springer Wuppertal club. At the age of seven he began to play sports, first as a boxer, then as a footballer for SSV Wuppertal. At the age of sixteen he joined a cycling club and trained regularly. In 1951 he won the one-day race around Düren . Also in 1951 he won around Solingen. His father won this race almost 25 years ago to the day. In 1954 he won the traditional Cologne – Schuld – Cologne race . In February 1955, after a one-week vacation in Oberhof , he decided to move to the GDR , where he started at SC Einheit Berlin from 1955 to 1957 and worked for the magistrate; half of the salary was paid in East Marks and the other half in West Marks. In the summer of 1955, Tüller won the GDR road championship. In 1956 he took part in the Tour of Egypt , at the UCI Road World Championship , his trainer took him out of the race after two falls.

Tüller was also nominated for the all-German team and competed in the street race at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne . There he did not stick to the agreements and made a push, although his team-mate Täve Schur had pulled out a lead on the chasing field with Tüller. Ultimately, the pursuers came close to Schur, the Olympic champion was the Italian Ercole Baldini with two minutes ahead of four drivers, Tüller finished fourth and Schur fifth. Nonetheless, the two drivers received medals because, together with Reinhold Pommer, they took third place in the team classification. In the spring of 1957, Tüller took second place in the Tour of Egypt. Then he decided to start a professional career and moved back to Germany.

In the next few years, Tüller started partly for the Swiss Feru team and the German torpedo team. In 1957 he finished second behind Franz Reitz in the German Road Championship . He repeated this placement in 1960 behind Hennes Junkermann . In 1958 he won his only professional race in Cologne. Tüller took part in the Tour de France twice, in 1958 he finished 58th, in 1960 he gave up.

Professional

In 1963 Tüller ended his cycling career. He had already moved to West Berlin in 1961 , where he first ran two lottery shops and later on laundromats. At the end of the 1970s, Tüller began playing tennis, where he played in the Berlin Association League for years.

Private

Tüller came from a cycling family, his father was also a cyclist. Both managed to register themselves on the list of honor for Rund um Solingen, with a gap of 25 years.

literature

  • Volker Kluge : Lexicon athletes in the GDR . New Life Publishing House, Berlin 2009 ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6
  • Karl-Heinz Trott: I drove the Tour de France. (Loosely based on descriptions by the German participant Horst Tüller) . Birker & Hederich, Wuppertal, 1959.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Volker Kluge : Lexicon athletes in the GDR . Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2009 ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6 , page 472
  2. ↑ Interest group for cycling (ed.): The cycling . No. 4/1950 . Sportdienst Verlag Zademack and Noster, Cologne 1950, p. 6 .
  3. ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 8/1955 . Sportverlag, Berlin 1955, p. 12 .
  4. ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 13/1954 . Sportverlag, Berlin 1954, p. 8 .
  5. ^ German road championship for professional cyclists
  6. ^ Pascal Sergent, Guy Crasset, Hervé Dauchy: Mondial Encyclopedie Cyclisme. Volume 3 PZ published in 2000 by the UCI ISBN 90-74128-74-2 , page 1838
  7. ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 45/1956 , 1956, pp. 5 .
personal data
SURNAME Tüller, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 2001
Place of death Berlin