Ortwin Czarnowski

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Ortwin Czarnowski (born July 21, 1940 in Tempelberg , Brandenburg province ) is a former German racing cyclist who comes from the Mark Brandenburg .

Life

Even in his youth, Czarnowski preferred to ride his bike than to play soccer like other boys and was active for the BSG Chemie Fürstenwalde cycling club . At the age of 19, he fled the GDR to the West with his mother and brother in 1960 . They were initially accommodated in the Weinsberg camp near Heilbronn . On July 17, 1961, Czarnowski drove from Weinsberg to Frankfurt am Main on his racing bike, which he had taken with him when he was fleeing , and won a bike race there the next day. In neighboring Heilbronn, Czarnowski worked as a telecommunications technician at the Heilbronn telecommunications office. After work and on weekends he rode for the Wanderlust Heilbronn cycling club. In 1964 he drove for RV Stuttgart, later he moved to Berlin and started for the BRC Zugvogel club .

It wasn't until very late, as a 24-year-old, that Czarnowski got a place in the German national team thanks to good placements and was immediately nominated for the Tour de l'Avenir in 1965. In 1966 he was the overall winner of the Flèche du Sud and the first Rhineland-Palatinate tour . He was chosen at the voice sports show on January 8, 1966 for the athlete of the Unterland . At the UCI Road World Championships in 1966 on the Nürburgring , he finished 37th in the amateurs road race .

In 1967 he won the Rund um Düren competition and, with 17th place in the world's toughest amateur stage race , the Peace Ride Warsaw-Berlin-Prague , he was the best driver of the BDR team in the overall ranking. Then he was used in the road world championship in individual races.

In his most successful year, 1968, he again won the overall ranking of the Rhineland-Palatinate Tour and the International Berlin Four-Stage Tour . He was also successful in the 100 km team race for the German Cup and in the Berlin 100 km team championship with the four of the NRVg Luisenstadt . In this, his last year as an active cyclist, he qualified for the Olympic Games in Mexico . He was the first athlete from Heilbronn to take part in the Olympic Games and led the German four-wheeler to eighth place in the 100 km team time trial. He ended his sporting career at the age of 28 for professional reasons.

In 1970, Czarnowski and others founded the Heilbronn Cycling Club (RSC), which has been called the Heilbronn Cycling Community (RSG) since 1973 after merging with RV Wanderlust Heilbronn . In 1974 he was a co-founder of the cycling department of SV Leingarten.

Czarnowski gave up his post at the post office, studied sport and technology and became a teacher in Leingarten . From his marriage to his wife Sigrid geb. Rokitte had two daughters. Czarnowski made Heilbronn a training center for youth cycling. As a teacher, he organized “rolling classrooms” with long-distance bicycle trips to Berlin and his birthplace, Tempelberg. In 1998 he launched the Environment and Transport Olympiad for primary school students on the Heilbronner Waldheide , in which thousands of students took part. Czarnowski lives in Leingarten.

Awards

In 1965 and 1969 Czarnowski Unterländer was athlete of the year . In 2001 he received the badge of honor from the state of Baden-Württemberg .

literature

  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Mexico 1968. Our team . Frankfurt am Main 1968
  • Josef Staudinger: At 70 you still have dreams . In: Heilbronn voice . July 21, 2010 ( at Stimme.de ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Margit Stöhr-Michalsky: Returned to the camp once more . In: Heilbronn voice . October 6, 2010 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on March 2, 2013]).
  2. ↑ Joachim Kinzinger: In the smallest of spaces in freedom . In: Heilbronn voice . March 1, 2013 ( from Stimme.de [accessed on March 2, 2013]).
  3. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 13/1967 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1967, p. 4 .
  4. ↑ Uwe Jacobi: That was the 20th century in Heilbronn . Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2001, ISBN 3-86134-703-2 , p. 70
  5. ^ Helmut Schmolz, Hubert Weckbach: Heilbronn. History and life of a city . 2nd Edition. Konrad, Weißenhorn 1973, ISBN 3-87437-062-3 , p. 114, No. 339 X. Voice-Sportschau, 1968
  6. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 35/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 10 .
  7. ^ Stadtarchiv Heilbronn, contemporary history collection, signature ZS-2125, entry on Radsportgemeinschaft (RSG) Heilbronn in the HEUSS database
personal data
SURNAME Czarnowski, Ortwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Tempelberg , Brandenburg Province