Jürgen Kissner

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Jürgen Kissner Road cycling
Jürgen Kißner (2018)
Jürgen Kißner (2018)
To person
Date of birth August 18, 1942
date of death May 18, 2019
nation Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic of Germany
GermanyGermany 
discipline train
End of career 1968
Societies)
RC Schmitter 1930 Cologne
Association of Cologne Road Drivers
Most important successes
Olympic games
1968 silver - team pursuit
Last updated: May 20, 2019

Jürgen Kißner (born August 18, 1942 in Luckau , Brandenburg ; † May 18, 2019 in Cologne ) was a German racing cyclist and sports teacher .

Sportsmen in the GDR

Jürgen Kißner began cycling in the GDR in 1956 with the SG Dynamo Cottbus police sports association and subsequently won 50 youth races on the road and on the track. In 1960 he was GDR youth champion in the individual pursuit over 2000 meters and drove to the Olympic Games in Rome as a substitute for the pursuit team , but was not used. In 1963 he was delegated to TSC Berlin , the East Berlin training base for track cyclists; then he was twice GDR champion with the four-wheeler.

After an elimination race between the teams of the Federal Republic and the GDR for the all-German team at the Olympic Games in 1964, Kißner did not return to the GDR, but stayed in Cologne .

Sportsman in the Federal Republic

The GDR cycling federation demanded a four-year ban on Kißner from the UCI in order to prevent him from competing for the Federal Republic at the upcoming Olympic Games. However, the UCI did not meet this requirement. After a six-month ban, Jürgen Kißner was able to race again for the Association of German Cyclists . With the track four he took second place at the 1966 World Track Championships and third place in 1967 . In 1966 he became German champion in the single pursuit and in the Omnium , and again in the Omnium the following year.

Kissner successfully drove six-day races for amateurs in winter , which at that time were part of the supporting program of almost all German railways. With his partner Ingo Rossbach he won the race in Cologne in January 1967.

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , Kißner touched his teammate Karl-Heinz Henrichs in the final of the four-man pursuit to avoid a collision, as he later said. As a result, the four-man (with Henrichs, Udo Hempel and Karl Link under coach Gustav Kilian ) was initially disqualified , because the jury interpreted this as an unauthorized "pushing". A year later, the German four-man track bike was subsequently awarded the silver medal.

Kissner also started in road races ; Here he succeeded in winning the traditional area around Cologne at the beginning of May 1967, when he surprised the street specialists with a successful breakaway attempt shortly before the finish line.

Lecturer, teacher and trainer

The event "Cycling then and now" in honor of Jürgen Kißner, v. l. To the right: Achim Schmidt, Udo Hempel , Karl Link , Jürgen Kißner, Marcel Wüst , Christian Knees , René Wolff , Sven Meyer

In addition to his cycling career, Jürgen Kißner studied from 1964 at the German Sport University in Cologne. From 1969 on, he worked as a regional trainer in North Rhine-Westphalia and accompanied the cyclists Udo Hempel and Günther Schumacher to the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich as a supervisor . From 1972 until his retirement in 2007 he was a teacher for sport and biology at the comprehensive school in Cologne-Rodenkirchen , where he founded a rowing and cycling club. At the same time, he set up a “cycling group of friends” at the Cologne Sports University. From this commitment the subject of cycling emerged, of which Jürgen Kißner became the first lecturer. In December 2012, his 70th birthday and the 45th anniversary of the subject of cycling at the sports university was celebrated with the event "Cycling in the past and today". Even after his retirement, Kissner was still active as a lecturer at the sports university, in 2018 he was recognized for his work as a tutor for track cycling. Until a few days before his death, Kißner was active as a trainer on the Albert-Richter-Bahn in Cologne.

Kißner died on May 18, 2019 and was buried in the cemetery in Cologne-Meschenich .

exhibition

In 2011, Jürgen Kißner's life and flight from the GDR were shown in the exhibition “ZOV Sports Traitors - Top Athletes on the Run” in Berlin's Willy Brandt House .

successes

1963

1964

1966

1967

1968

See also

Web links

Commons : Jürgen Kißner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Kißner died at the age of 76. In: rad-net.de. May 18, 2019, accessed May 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b Stefan Rosiejak: Mourning for Jürgen Kißner. In: Radsportverband-nrw.de. May 18, 2019, accessed May 18, 2019 .
  3. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 48/1964 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1964, p. 8 .
  4. ^ Cycling , January 10, 1967.
  5. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne, p. 13 .
  6. ↑ Renate Franz : "The greatest fraud of all time" - How the four-man lost gold at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico. In: Cycling4fans.de. April 2015, accessed May 18, 2019 .
  7. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 19/1967 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1967, p. 4 .
  8. ^ Cycling past and present on dshs-koeln.de from December 3, 2012 ( Memento from December 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
  9. ^ German Sport University Cologne: Prize winners 2018. In: dshs-koeln.de. Retrieved June 6, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Jürgen Kissner (1942–2019). In: nl.findagrave.com. August 18, 1942, accessed June 6, 2019 (Dutch).
  11. ↑ Escape via the freight elevator on dw-world.de from August 12, 2011 .
  12. ↑ Jürgen Kissner. In: zov-sportverraeter.de. Retrieved May 20, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kissner, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Luckau
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 2019
Place of death Cologne