Kurt Kühn (cycling official)
Kurt Kühn (born June 17, 1895 - † October 19, 1966 ) was a German cycling official and from 1950 to 1955 President of the Association of German Cyclists (BDR).
Kurt Kühn was a good road cyclist in his youth . So he won in 1914 around Braunschweig , as well as an Olympic elimination race. During the First World War he served as a soldier and was taken prisoner of war . For a while, he ran indoor cycling alongside road cycling. There were days when he competed in a road race and was active as an indoor cyclist with his team at the award ceremony that same evening. After the war he turned to indoor cycling and became a successful round rider . He was German champion four times with the RV Panther Braunschweig team .
At the same time, Kühn was involved as a functionary: he went through all levels from the club chairman to the district chairman and the regional association chairman. In 1932 he became a member of the BDR presidium as a specialist for indoor cycling. He retained this office even after the " seizure of power " in 1933 by the National Socialists and held it until 1945. During this time Kühn worked out regulations and rating schemes for indoor cycling, which were later adopted unchanged by the World Cycling Association Union Cycliste Internationale .
In 1950 Kurt Kühn was elected federal chairman of the BDR. During his term of office, the German association was resumed in the UCI after the Second World War and the 1954 UCI World Championships were held in Germany on the road, rail and indoor. In 1955 he resigned from his office for reasons of health and time, but returned four years later to the Presidium as treasurer, and in 1965 he was elected Vice President of the BDR. He was an honorary member of the UCI Indoor Cycling Committee. In 1965 he was made an honorary member of the BDR and awarded the newly created golden badge of honor with diamonds .
Individual evidence
- ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 43/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 2 .
- ↑ Interest group for cycling (ed.): The cycling . No. 2/1950 . Sportdienst Verlag Zademack and Noster, Cologne 1950, p. 3 .
- ↑ a b c Wolfgang Schoppe / Werner Ruttkus : Step by step. From 13 decades of history of the Association of German Cyclists . Frehner Consulting, Füssen 2012, ISBN 978-3-929371-23-9 , p. 97 .
1884–1893 Carl Hindenburg | 1894–1896 Rudolf Vogel | 1896–1897 Ludwig Holtbuer | 1897–1914 Theodor Böckling | 1915–1922 Paul Martin | 1923–1924 Heinrich Stevens | 1925–1927 Hans Totschek | 1927–1928 Georg Schweinitz | 1928–1932 Carl Moshagen | 1932–1933 Franz Eggert | 1933–1935 Franz Ohrtmann | 1935–1936 Franz Eggert | 1948–1950 Hans A. Müller | 1950–1955 Kurt Kühn | 1955–1959 Gerhard Schulze | 1959–1970 Erwin Hauck | 1970 Hans Bandele | 1971–1981 Hans-Joachim Hangstein | 1981–1997 Werner Göhner | 1997–2001 Manfred Böhmer | 2001–2004 Sylvia Schenk | 2004–2005 Fritz Ramseier | since 2005 Rudolf Scharping
Between 1933 and 1948 the German Association was called the Deutscher Radfahrer-Verband (DRV), and the association leaders were appointed. From 1937 to 1945 the DRV was led by Viktor Brack , who was executed as a convicted war criminal in 1948.
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| SURNAME | Bold, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cycling official and President of the Association of German Cyclists |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1895 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 1966 |