Paul Buschenhagen
Paul Buschenhagen (born September 14, 1904 in Berlin ; † October 18, 1993 there ) was a German track cyclist .
Paul Buschenhagen, known as “Buschi”, was a professional cyclist from 1926 to 1934. In those years, the heyday of the six-day races , he was one of the most popular six-day riders in Germany. He started with a total of 31, of which he won five: 1929 in Stuttgart , 1930 in Brussels , Breslau and Berlin with Piet van Kempen and in 1933 in Dortmund with Adolf Schön . When no more six-day races were held in Germany from 1934, he ended his sporting career.
Buschenhagen played himself in the 1931 feature film " Um ein Nasenlänge " about six-day races. In the late 1940s and early 1950s he was active as a sports director at six-day races in Berlin.
Trivia
During his time as a six-day racing driver, Buschenhagen had a particular weakness for fast and expensive cars. He owned a Bugatti , a Cadillac, a Packard and a Horch racing car , one after the other .
Web links
- Paul Buschenhagen in the Radsportseiten.net database
- "100 Years of the Six-Day Race in Berlin". In: Berliner Radsport , December 2008, p. 3 (PDF; 364 kB)
- "Dream in the blue". In: Simplicissimus , August 4, 1935, pp. 218 and 221 (PDF; 6.2 MB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 50/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 12 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Buschenhagen, Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German track cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 1993 |
| Place of death | Berlin |