Karl Saldow

Karl Saldow

Photograph of the start of the Hanover Grand Prix on August 5, 1920 with the four racing cyclists and their places that they won shortly afterwards (from left): Bauer (1st), Appelhans (4th), Fritsche (2nd) and Saldow (3rd) )

Karl Saldow (born October 26, 1889 in Berlin ; † May 31, 1951 there ) was a German racing cyclist .

Saldow came into contact with cycling as an apprentice mechanic and began actively racing in 1908. He bought his first racing machine for 100 Reichsmark from racing driver Eugen Stabe . Karl Saldow belonged to the first guard of German racing drivers before and after the First World War . In 1910 he won Rund um Berlin and came third at Berlin – Cottbus – Berlin . He then concentrated on track cycling , in particular on standing and six-day races .

Saldow started in 22 six-day races in Germany, of which he was able to win eight. He won six races together with Willy Lorenz . He won the six-day race in his hometown of Berlin four times as a local hero .

Saldow was German champion of the stayers four times. After retiring from active cycling in 1928, he set the pace . In 1934 he led Erich Metze from Dortmund to the world champion title in the professional standing category.

During the Second World War , Karl Saldow lost all of his fortune. In cycling he was one of the top earners for many years, in the 1919 season alone he achieved cash profits of 120,000 marks. He committed suicide on May 31, 1951.

literature

• Roger de Maertelaere: De Mannen van de Nacht , Eeklo 2000, p. 242.

Web links

• Karl Saldow in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Express-Verlag (ed.): Illustrated Radsportexpress . No. 27/1947 . Berlin, S. 6 .
2. ^ Verlag der Radwelt (ed.): Sport album of the Rad world . Strauss-Verlag, Berlin 1920, p. 106 .
3. ^ Cycling , June 4, 1951