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To person
Date of birth	June 14, 1926
date of death	November 8, 2014
nation	Germany
discipline	Street
Team (s)
1949-1956	Dürkopp
Most important successes
German road cycling championships 1949
Last update: 29.11.2014

Otto Ziege (born June 14, 1926 in Berlin ; † November 8, 2014 ) was a German cyclist , cycling official and organizer of cycling races.

Athletic career

At the age of 15, Otto Ziege joined the Germania 03 Berlin association. Just a year later he and his team won the Berlin Youth Championship. Conny Rux , who later became a well-known boxer and as such a German champion, was one of his training companions at the time. In 1943, Ziege won four titles at the youth championships in Berlin. In August 1943 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . After returning from captivity in 1946, he got a license as a professional driver, his mentor and sponsor during this time was the racing driver Bernhard Matysiak . Ziege was active between 1947 and 1956 and from 1949 belonged to the professional racing stable of the bicycle manufacturer Dürkopp . At first Dürkopp was not interested in Ziege, but Otto Weckerling vouched for its efficiency and arranged a contract. He celebrated his greatest sporting success in 1949 when he won the German road cycling championship for professionals. Together with Willy Funda , he regularly took part in the Berlin six-day race, which has been taking place again since 1949 , and became a local hero there.

Professional

After finishing his active career, he and his wife opened a gas station on the corner of Leibnizstrasse and Mommsenstrasse in Berlin-Charlottenburg . In 1958 Max Knaack , the organizer of the six-day race , hired him as the sporting director. He initially held this position until 1990. From the revival of the race in 1997 to 2009, Ziege was again responsible for the sport. Between 1976 and 1996 he also served as the sports director of the Dortmund six-day race in the Dortmund Westfalenhalle .

Honors

In the 1960s, Ziege was a national road cycling coach for four years and was president of the Berlin Cycling Association for many years . When he left this office, he was appointed honorary president. In 2001 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Berlin for his life's work . In 2004 he received the Golden Ribbon of the Association of Berlin Sports Journalists.

literature

• Andreas Müller: The secret headquarters of the six-day race: The 73-year-old Otto Ziege organizes the famous cycling event from his gas station. In: Berliner Zeitung . December 27, 1999 . 

Documentary film

• Six days, six nights - 100 years of the Berlin six-day race by Heinz Brinkmann , RBB 2008 - the one-hour bonus material u. a. also the long version of the conversations with Otto Ziege

Web links

Commons : Otto Ziege  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Otto Ziege in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Axel Blüchert: stomach cancer! Otto Ziege is dead. In: BZ November 8, 2014, accessed on May 29, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Express-Verlag (ed.): Illustrated Radsportexpress . No. 7/1947 . Berlin, S. 7 .
3. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 7/1967 . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne, p. 11 .
4. ↑ Florian Haupt: Life is a gas station. In: Berliner Morgenpost . January 25, 2004, accessed May 29, 2019 . 
5. ↑ The Presidium. Berliner Radsport Verband e. V., archived from the original on February 26, 2008 ; Retrieved October 9, 2008 . 
6. ↑ Otto Ziege honored. (pdf, 232 kB) In: Berliner Radsport. February 2004, archived from the original on July 3, 2007 ; accessed on May 29, 2019 .