Otto Meyer (cyclist)
Friedrich Otto Meyer (born November 4, 1882 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ; † in the 20th century) was a German racing cyclist .
Meyer was the son of the factory worker and later railway employee Heinrich Meyer. Against his father's wishes, Otto Meyer dropped out of school and began training as a mechanic. At first he raced as an amateur, and since 1899 as a professional . In 1908 he took second place in the German sprint championship , and won the title the following year. In 1911 he became the unofficial sprint world champion in Dresden (due to conflicts with the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the Association of German Cyclists held its own world championships that year). In 1910 and 1914 Meyer, who also worked as a wrestler and was called the "fat Otto", was third in the German sprint championship.
There are contradicting versions of his further fate: On the one hand, Otto Meyer is said to have been taken prisoner in France during the First World War and has been missing since then. On the other hand, it is reported that Meyer emigrated to the United States after the war . According to more recent findings, Meyer is said to have been politically active in Schifferstadt in 1923 and campaigned for the independence of the Palatinate . Meyer's racing bike, on which he became “World Champion” in 1911, is still owned by his club, RC Friesenheim .
He was married to Elisabeth Rossmann from 1902 until the divorce in 1917, and one of the couple's children had been born in 1901.
Web links
- Otto Meyer in the database of Radsportseiten.net
- Otto Meyer on cycling4fans.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth register of StA Ludwigshafen am Rhein, No. 655/1882
- ↑ Wolfgang Kauer / Asmus Kaufmann: Otto Meyer from Ludwigshafen: world champion on the racing bike and separatist . In: sportgeschichte (n). Communications from the Palatinate Sports History Association . Issue 1/2010
- ↑ History on 250 square meters on wormser-zeitung.de v. January 11, 2011 ( 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.
- ↑ marriage register StA Ludwigshafen am Rhein, No. 540/1902
- ↑ Birth register of StA Ludwigshafen am Rhein, No. 1822/1901
1895 August Lehr | 1896, 1897, 1921 Willy Arend | 1898 Franz Verheyen | 1908 Richard Scheuermann | 1909 Otto Meyer | 1910, 1919, 1920, 1923 Walter Rütt | 1914 Eugen Stabe | 1922, 1924, 1926 Willy Lorenz | 1925 Willy Gottfried | 1927 Alex Fricke | 1928, 1929, 1932 Mathias Engel | 1930, 1931 Peter Steffes | 1932–1939 Albert Richter | 1940, 1941 Jean Schorn | 1942 Toni Merkens | 1946–1947, 1949–1954 Georg Voggenreiter | 1948 Werner Bunzel | 1955–1960, 1962–1965 Werner Potzernheim | 1961 Günther Ziegler | 1966, 1967 Hans-Peter Kanters | 1969 Peter Glemser | 1975 Udo Hempel | 1976 Horst Schütz | 1992–1996, 1998–1999, 2002 Jens Fiedler | 1997 Eyk Pokorny | 2000, 2004 Jan van Eijden | 2001, 2005 Stefan Nimke | 2003 René Wolff | 2006, 2007 Matthias John | 2008, 2013 Robert Förstemann | 2009 Carsten Bergemann | 2010 Tobias Wächter | 2011, 2012, 2014 Stefan Bötticher | 2015, 2016, 2017 Maximilian Levy | 2018, 2019 Maximilian Dörnbach
The sprint was not consistently carried out at the German Railway Championships.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meyer, Friedrich Otto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German racing cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1882 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludwigshafen am Rhein |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |