Max Bulla

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Max Bulla Road cycling
Max Bulla at the Tour de France 1932
Max Bulla at the Tour de France 1932
To person
Date of birth September 26, 1905
date of death March 1, 1990
nation AustriaAustria Austria
discipline Road / train
End of career 1949
Last updated: April 26, 2020
Grave of Max Bulla and his wife Josefine in Hinterbrühl

Max Bulla (born September 26, 1905 in Vienna ; † March 1, 1990 in Pitten , Lower Austria ) was one of the most successful Austrian cyclists of his time and the first Austrian to win the yellow jersey in the Tour de France .

Athletic career

Max Bulla celebrated his first successes by winning the Austrian road championships in 1926 and 1927. He achieved international success in the early 1930s. In 1931, Max Bulla was able to win several professional cycling races, such as the championship in Zurich , achieved three stage victories in the Tour de France as an independent and won the classification in this class. He was the first Austrian to wear the yellow jersey for one stage. Tour organizer Henri Desgrange was so impressed by Bulla's performance that he made sure that he could start in the German national team the following year.

In 1931 Bulla also won a stage in the Deutschland Tour . In 1933, with two stage wins, he won the overall standings of the Tour de Suisse, which was held for the first time, with a lead of 9:01 minutes over the Swiss Albert Büchi . Further stage victories in the Tour de Suisse followed in 1934 and 1936. Max Bulla also won two stages in the Vuelta a España in 1935.

Since Bulla started mainly outside of Austria, he was not very popular in his home country. That changed during the war years, when Bulla - from 1940 a member of the NSDAP - fought popular duels with his compatriot Ferry Dusika due to a lack of races abroad or competed in national competitions against Italy and Denmark. After 1945 the two athletes wrote a book together.

Bulla ended his sporting career in 1949 at the age of 44, after having finished sixth on the long-distance journey Vienna – Graz – Vienna over 427 kilometers behind Derny - Pacer . He then worked in the car trade, importing vehicles from Morris and Volvo to Austria.

Max Bulla is buried in Hinterbrühl . In 1993 the Bullagasse in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district) was named after him.

successes

1926
  • AustriaAustria Austrian champion - road race
1927
  • AustriaAustria Austrian champion - road race
1930
1931
1933
1934
1935
1936

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935
Orange jersey Vuelta a España - - - - 5
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - 47 -
Yellow jersey Tour de France 15th 19th - - -

Teams

Publications

  • With Franz Dusika: The successful racing cyclist . Vienna 1951 and 1954.

literature

  • Matthias Marschik : The "stayer". Max Bulla and the yellow jersey . In: Bernhard Hachleitner / Matthias Marschik / Rudolf Müllner / Michael Zappe (eds.): I am a motor myself. 200 years of cycling in Vienna (=  wienbibliothek im rathaus ). Metroverlag, 2014, p. 104-105 .

Web links

Commons : Max Bulla  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurt Stöpel: Tour de France an experience report from the Grand Boucle. Covadonga-Verlag, Bielefeld 2004, ISBN 3-936973-10-5 , p. 36.
  2. ↑ a b Marschik, The "Stayer". Max Bulla , p. 104.
  3. ↑ Marschik, The "Stayer". Max Bulla , p. 105.


personal data
SURNAME Bulla, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1990
Place of death Pitten , Lower Austria