Paul Dinter

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Paul Dinter 1953

Paul Paule Dinter (born August 6, 1922 in Berlin-Lichtenberg ; † May 18, 2001 in Königs Wusterhausen ) was a German racing cyclist . He was mainly active in GDR cycling .

Life

Dinter grew in the Brandenburg Zeesenboot on and completed after the primary school doctrine to fitter and turner. In 1940 he joined the 1898 cycling club in Mittenwalde . He was Brandenburg youth champion and set a warning in the men's area when he took second place in the cycling classic Berlin-Cottbus-Berlin . In 1943 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and wounded several times during the Second World War .

A year after the end of the war, Dinter started in the one-day race around Berlin in 1946 and was 10th. In 1950 he joined the newly founded company sports association (BSG) Lowa / Motor in Wildau and in the same year achieved his best with fourth place and two stage wins in the GDR tour Result at this stage race , in which he participated regularly in the 1950s. In 1951, Dinter first took part in the three-country stage race Internationale Friedensfahrt as captain of the GDR national team. With sixth place in the fifth stage, he achieved his best result, as the second best GDR driver he came in 14th overall in the tour 1953 his last peace trip. In the sixth stage of the day, he came in eighth place in the top ten for the second time in his peace race career and, after a serious fall on the last stage, which almost forced him to give up, he finished 28th in the final ranking with the GDR team However, he was the first time the team classification .

At the GDR road championships in 1951, Dinter achieved his best result with third place. His lack of sprint speed prevented him from taking podium places more often in important races. Third place in the 1953 GDR classic Berlin-Leipzig is one of these few successes .

Dinter worked as a lathe operator in the heavy machinery industry in Wildau. Even after his retirement from active racing in 1957, Dinter continued to be involved in cycling and became section head and trainer at BSG Motor Wildau. A little later, Dinter was asked to sign a resolution against the Korean War ; At the same time, the trainers should commit themselves to "educate the youth in a socialist way". As a practicing Catholic, Dinter refused to sign this commitment, after which he was no longer allowed to exercise any functions in cycling. In 1993 he was one of the co-founders of RSV 93 Königs Wusterhausen / Wildau, the successor to the cycling section of Motor Wildau. In the same year he started the bicycle tour “Before the gates of Berlin” for popular sport. Dinter died in 2001 at the age of 78 in Königs Wusterhausen, his last place of residence. There a sports hall was named after him, and the RSV 93 organizes an annual Paul Dinter memorial race. His extensive estate is kept in a family archive. His son Raimund was also active as a cyclist and official at Motor Wildau.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 31/1982 . Berlin, S. 4 .
  2. ↑ Out and about with cycling idol Paul Dinter, RSV Wildau celebrates its 20th anniversary, as of February 2013. Accessed on August 20, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Dinter, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dinter, Paule (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Lichtenberg
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 2001
Place of death cottbus