Tour of the Eastern Zones 1949
The East Zone Tour 1949 (also: East Zone Tour or across the East Zone ) was a road bike race of the amateurs , which was held as a stage trip in the Soviet zone of occupation (East Zone) . It took place from September 9th to 18th. The winner of the individual classification was Max Bartoskiewicz from Berlin , and the team competition was won by the Berlin I team. From 1950 it was carried out as a GDR tour .
Preliminary remarks
The east zone tour was initiated by two Berlin cycling enthusiasts , the first chairman of the East Berlin cycling club BRC Endspurt 1901 Willi Vegelahn and the spirits manufacturer and cycling sponsor Paul Pöschke. Since Pöschke had previously mainly been involved in professional races , the German Sports Committee , the responsible sports committee in the Soviet occupation zone , rejected the organization of the tour by the two named, but took over the idea and finally ran the race on its own, since 1950 as GDR tour .
Route
The total distance was 1186 kilometers and was divided into seven stages. The tour began and ended in East Berlin and passed through all five countries of the Soviet occupation zone. The first stage from East Berlin to Rostock was the longest part of the day at 240 kilometers, the shortest stage from Chemnitz to Leipzig was 97 kilometers . The route profile was essentially flat, only two stages between Magdeburg and Chemnitz led over the Harz , the Thuringian Forest and the Ore Mountains .
Attendees
60 drivers from ten city teams started, 53 athletes reached the finish. The following teams took part:
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Race course
The tour was clearly dominated by Max Bartoskiewicz from Berlin, who won the individual ranking with a lead of almost nine minutes. After the first stage he took over the yellow jersey of the front runner, which he then wore for all parts of the day with one exception. Only on the fifth stage was Bartoskiewicz's fiercest competitor, Karl-Heinz Hey from Erfurt , able to take the Berliner over four minutes away and win the yellow jersey with a wafer-thin lead of five seconds. Bartoskiewicz countered immediately and after a solo trip together with his teammate Heinz Weinert, he was more than seven minutes ahead of his pursuers and took back the lead in the individual standings. Bartoskiewicz also owed the Berlin I team for winning the team classification with a 20 minute lead over the Erfurt team, which had its top performers in Karl-Heinz Hey and Bernhard Trefflich .
| stage | Start finish | Length (km) | winner | Time (h) |
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| 1 | East Berlin - Rostock | 240 | Max Bartoskiewicz (Berlin I) | 7:28:34 |
| 2 | Rostock - Wittenberge | 175 | Walter Dietrich (Leipzig I) | 5:28:23 |
| 3 | Wittenberge - Magdeburg | 109 | Heinz Weinert (Berlin I) | 3:01:55 |
| 4th | Magdeburg - Erfurt | 176 | Bartoskiewicz | 5:16:26 |
| 5 | Erfurt - Chemnitz | 195 | Erwin Horn (Berlin III) | 5:32:33 |
| 6th | Chemnitz - Leipzig | 97 | Bartoskiewicz | 2:58:39 |
| 7th | Leipzig - East Berlin | 194 | Edgar Schatz (hall) | 4:58:25 |
Final results
| driver | team | Time (h) | |
| 1 . | Max Bartoskiewicz | Berlin I | 35:03:28 |
| 2. | Karl-Heinz Hey | Erfurt | 35:12:06 |
| 3. | Horst Gaede | Magdeburg | 35:12:58 |
| 4th | Otto Busse | Leipzig I | 35:15:49 |
| 5. | Heinz Weinert | Berlin I | 35:16:47 |
| 6th | Lothar Master I. | Leipzig II | 35:17:30 |
| 7th | Bernhard Trefflich | Erfurt | 35:18:03 |
| 8th. | Kurt Plitt | Berlin II | 35:18:05 |
| 9. | Heinz Höhne | Magdeburg | 35:20:08 |
| 10. | Gerd Thiemichen | Leipzig II | 35:21:47 |
| 11. | Rudi Kirchhoff | Berlin I | 35:21:52 |
| 12. | Erwin Horn | Berlin III | 35:26:11 |
| 13. | Henry Urban | Chemnitz | 35:27:18 |
| 14th | Harry Baschke | Berlin I | 35:27:19 |
| 15th | Walter Baumann | Hall | 35:27:28 |
| 16. | Lehmann | Berlin II | 35:29:13 |
| 17th | Grindel | Leipzig I | 35:30:42 |
| 18th | Lipfert | Magdeburg | 35:30:51 |
| 19th | Helmuth Lohse | Chemnitz | 35:32:02 |
| 29 | Werner Graebner | Berlin I | 35:36:42 |
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| 53. | Darnstädt | Leipzig II | 38:56:10 |
| team | Time (h) | |
| 1 . |
Berlin I Max Bartoskiewicz , Richard Baschke, Erwin Digulla, Werner Graebner, Rudi Kirchhoff, Heinz Weinert |
105: 30: 50 |
| 2. | Erfurt | 105: 56: 12 |
| 3. | Magdeburg | 106: 03: 54 |
| 4th | Leipzig I | 106: 19: 49 |
| 5. | Berlin II | 106: 23: 56 |
| 6th | Chemnitz | 106.34: 16 |
| 7th | Leipzig II | 106.35: 01 |
| 8th. | Hall | 106.54: 34 |
| 9. | Berlin III | 107: 19: 55 |
| 10. | Frankfurt | 109: 35: 30 |
literature
- Jutta Braun, Hans J. Treichler: Sports City Berlin in the Cold War: Prestige fights and system competition , Ch. Links Verlag 2006, ISBN 3-86153-399-5 , pp. 288–289
- GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho , issue of June 20, 1958 "Review of the GDR tour"
- Literature on tour of the east zone in 1949 in the catalog of the German National Library
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Illustrated Cycling Express . No. 38/1949 . Express-Verlag, Berlin 1949, p. 300 .