Karl Wiemer

Karl Wiemer (born March 31, 1914 in Berlin ; † September 20, 2001 in Bremervörde ) was a German cyclist and cycling trainer .

Career

Memorial plaque for Germany's oldest road race in Zossen

Wiemer began cycling in 1928 in the Berlin branch of the German Cyclists Union (DRU). His father (after his active career still active in the senior class) encouraged his athletic development to the best of his ability. The Berlin and the German championship of the youth class of the DRU were the first major successes. In a 100 km team race in 1931, Wiemer even competed with his father in a race and both won together. On August 2, 1931, Wiemer senior won. in the senior class for the championship of the DRU, Wiemer jun. won the youth title that day. In 1932 he joined the RV Fedia. The first starts on the track of the Sportpalast followed , where Wiemer discovered his love for track cycling and especially for two-man team cycling . In 1935 the first foreign starts followed in Copenhagen and Warsaw , where he was immediately successful with König in the two-team race. In 1940 he formed a team with Harry Saager , which also immediately won three team races in the Deutschlandhalle . Wiemer was a versatile cyclist who was successful in almost all disciplines on track and road and won more than 250 winning ribbons in his career. He was twice German champion in team pursuit on the track in the amateur class, in 1942 in Erfurt with RSV Dresdenia with Anger, Neuendorf and Alfred Diedler and in 1943 in Braunschweig with Fritz Anger, Hans Neuendorf and Erich Spring. In 1943 he broke his leg in a collision with a car, which banned him from cycling for four years. In 1946 he won the traditional Rund um Berlin race , which that year was reserved exclusively for professional drivers. In retrospect, Wiemer regarded this victory as his most beautiful victory, also because of the incredible enthusiasm and number of spectators. The appreciation for the race was also expressed in the fact that the then mayor of the city officially held the award ceremony in tails and top hats. He won the title of Eastern Zone Master (forerunner of the GDR championship) in the single pursuit of professional drivers in 1949. In 1950 he was second in the championship. In 1953 he started with Günther Pankoke at the German championships in two-man team driving and won the title there. In 1949 he took part in the Berlin six-day race (partner was Robert Naeye ) and twice on the Tour of Germany .

job

For a short time, Wiemer was a member of the board of the professional drivers' commission of the GDR and the first state coach for cycling in the GDR . In 1960 he was a trainer at SC Einheit Berlin , where he promoted his protégé Wolfgang Jaeger in particular. Under his leadership, Jaeger set a new GDR record in 1960 on the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle track with 44, 606 kilometers per hour. After the Berlin Wall was built , Wiemer moved to Einbeck in Lower Saxony , where he worked for a time as a regional association trainer. In 1981 he retired. His son Gerd also worked as a cycling trainer.

Web links

Commons : Karl Wiemer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wiemer at the Berlin six-day race: day of the soft pear (Der Spiegel)
• Karl Wiemer in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cycling . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne October 2, 2001.
2. ↑ Illustrated Cycling Express . No. 1/1948 . Express-Verlag, Berlin 1948, p. 4-5 .
3. ^ Werner Ruttkus, Wolfgang Schoppe: Round gyro & Berlin air . Self-published by Werner Ruttkus, Zossen 2011, p. 398 .
4. ↑ ^{a b} Christina Kapp: Cycling: A life dedicated to cycling - Wiemer turned 70 cycling . Cologne 1984 (no date).