Jan Tebbe

Jan Tebbe (* 1927 ; † July 30, 1985 ) was a German transport and traffic specialist in Bremen as well as initiator and founder of the General German Bicycle Club .

In 1978, during the International Bicycle and Motorcycle Exhibition ( IFMA ), at a BUND symposium at the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, he advocated the advocacy of bicycles as opposed to the priority of cars in traffic , in order to achieve “equality as the first and overarching goal " To provide.

Tebbe and 17 colleagues agreed on April 18, 1979 in his apartment in Bremen on the statutes of an unregistered construction association called the General German Bicycle Club (ADFC) , from which the first registered regional ADFC- Associations emerged. On September 25, 1979, a federal association ADFC e. V. superordinated, chaired by Jan Tebbe.

In 1982 Jan Tebbe handed over the federal chairmanship of the ADFC to Anne Modersohn, but remained a member of the federal executive committee until his unexpected death in the summer of 1985.

literature

• Step by step. Ten years of the General German Bicycle Club 1979–1989 . Farbo, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-923017-38-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Historical outline at ADFC Memmingen with photo by Jan Tebbe, accessed on May 5, 2010.
2. ↑ ADFC Chronicle 1979 ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed July 10, 2013.  
3. ↑ ADFC Chronicle 1985 ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed July 10, 2013.