Otto Busse (cyclist)

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Otto Busse Road cycling
The GDR team at the International Peace Trip 1950 with Otto Busse (4th from right)
The GDR team at the International Peace Trip 1950 with Otto Busse (4th from right)
To person
Date of birth June 17, 1914
date of death unknown
nation GDR
discipline Track cycling; Road cycling
Societies)
BSG Eisen und Stahl-Leipzig
Most important successes

1949 : Berlin − Leipzig

Otto Busse (born June 17, 1914 , † after 1979) was a German racing cyclist and trainer who was active in the GDR .

Athletic career

In 1949 Otto Busse, who came from Leipzig and drove for BSG Eisen und Stahl-Leipzig , won the Berlin-Leipzig race , as well as the Berlin-Angermünde-Berlin season opener. In the same year he was fourth in the overall ranking of the East Zone Tour. He started several times in the GDR Tour , his best result in 1952 was 17th place. In 1950 Busse started as captain of the first GDR team in the International Peace Tour and was 44th overall.

On the track he won the GDR championship title in team pursuit in 1950 together with Helmut Richard Körnig , Rolf Thieme and Gerd Thiemichen and in 1951 the title in two-man team driving with Günter Oldenburg .

Otto Busse was one of the founding members of the SC DHfK Leipzig in 1954 . After retiring from active cycling, he worked as a trainer in Leipzig and also looked after the GDR team on the peace ride. For several years he accompanied the peace ride on a motorcycle, together with the sports director of New Germany , Klaus Ullrich , and wrote analyzes of the race himself for the newspaper.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In 30 years of love for the peace journey preserved. Neues Deutschland, April 12, 1980, accessed January 14, 2014 .
  2. ↑ DRSV (ed.): The cyclist . Born in 1966, issue 23. Berlin, June 20, 1966.
  3. ↑ Chronicle of SC DHfK Leipzig  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.scdhfk-radsport.de  
  4. ^ New Germany , June 20, 1966
  5. ↑ Klaus Ullrich: "My 'front man'". In: Neues Deutschland , May 11, 1970
  6. ↑ Otto Busse: "Only one person not in the picture". In: Neues Deutschland , May 15, 1970

Web links

  • Otto Busse in the database of Radsportseiten.net
personal data
SURNAME Busse, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cyclist (GDR)
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1914
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century