Johannes Schober (cyclist)

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Johannes Schober (born April 11, 1935 in Wüstenbrand ; † November 25, 2016 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German racing cyclist who was active in the GDR in the 1950s and 1960s .

Athletic career

Johannes Schober started cycling because in 1949, after finishing school, he was forced to cycle from his home in Wüstenbrand to his training facility at the Chemnitz-Siegmar bicycle factory . At that time there was no other way to get to work on time. On these tours, he competed with colleagues for the first time, his boss noticed and then enabled him to build his first bike. Schober started his cycling career with the company sports association (BSG) Motor Diamant in Chemnitz . He was able to win his first race. At the age of 16, he won the GDR youth championship in team time trial with the BSG team in 1951 . In 1955 Schober was delegated to the Saxon cycling center, the SC Wismut in Karl-Marx-Stadt (formerly Chemnitz). In the meantime he started in the men's field and became a state amateur . He had previously completed his apprenticeship as a machine fitter.

Notable successes began in 1956, when he won the international Gruga Prize in Essen in front of the entire West German elite and came second in the GDR championship. In 1957 he won the Grand Diamond Prize and the Stuttgart Grand Prix. In 1958 he was the winner of the Ore Mountains Tour and the Vienna Festival Street Race. In the 1958 Sachsenring race , he finished second, and with the four-team of SC Wismut he was third in the team time trial at the GDR championships . He also won the Ore Mountains Tour and 2 stages of the Belgian 9-Provinces Tour. In 1959 he won the Vienna Festival Prize.

The team time trial became the parade route in his career, because in 1960 he was GDR champion there with the bismuth team and in 1961 he was runner-up again.

The difficult tests in his sporting career included three starts in the amateur road world championship (39th in 1959) and participation in the three-country stage race Internationale Friedensfahrt in 1959 and 1960. When he made his debut in 1959, he was rated under 92 Drivers 22nd, of the six GDR starters he was only the fifth best. Also in 1960 he was not very successful in the individual ranking as the last placed GDR driver in 24th place, but was able to decorate himself with the blue jersey of the team winner GDR.

At the end of his career as a cyclist, Schober achieved second place in the 1965 GDR championships in the individual road race. For his services in GDR cycling, he was awarded the title Honored Master of Sport .

Trivia

During his time as an active cyclist, Schober had qualified as a master mechanic. As a trainer in Schkopau and Halle (Saale) , he looked after the next generation of cyclists and, among other things, looked after the later Olympic and world champion Klaus-Jürgen Grünke . While he was a coach, Schober completed a sports degree. From 1982 to 1990 he was chairman of the BSG Chemie Buna Schkopau and later also volunteered at the successor club SV Buna Schkopau and in the district sports association. Johannes Schober was one of Gustav-Adolf Schur's closest friends , who stayed in close contact with him even after his stroke in 2013.

literature

  • Mitteldeutsche Nachrichten newspaper , Halle, April 12, 2000: "Cycling idols Hannes and Täve in top shape"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 7/1957 . Berlin 1957, p. 5 .
  2. ^ New Germany: peace driver Schober died . presseportal.de, November 25, 2016.
    Neue Zeit , May 3, 1959, p. 8.
  3. ↑ a b c Memories of a cyclist. Free press, accessed on May 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schober, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Desert fire
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 2016
Place of death Halle (Saale)