Paul Krewer

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Paul Krewer (born June 10, 1906 in Duisburg , † 1997 or 2000 in Cologne ) was a German racing cyclist .

Paul Krewer attended school in Duisburg, then moved to Cologne to work in his father's bicycle shop. It wasn't until he was 16 that he learned to ride a bike. His sponsor was the Cologne racing driver Paul Oszmella . As an amateur , Krewer mainly competed in aviation races ; he started for the RC Adler Cologne . In 1926 he became a professional and turned to the then lucrative standing sport .

Paul Krewer was one of the most popular standing people in Germany from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s . Twice, in 1927 and 1934 , he was runner-up in the professional standing world championship, and in 1929 he was third. In several years he took podium places in German stay championships. In 1928 the result of the German standing championship was canceled because Krewer had agreed with Erich Möller to the detriment of Walter Sawall . Krewer won almost all major standing races, but never a championship title.

Paul Krewer's identification mark was an Indian head on his jersey, which is why he was also called "Indi". He ended his active career in 1949, and in the same year he switched to the pacemaker camp.

At the beginning of his career, Krewer's pacemaker was Christian Junggeburth from Bergheim , with whom he had become vice world champion in 1927 . In 1929 Krewer caused a traffic accident in Bonn ; his car crashed into a tram. Junggeburth, who had been in the car with him, was seriously injured in this accident and died of blood poisoning in the hospital a few days later.

Paul Krewer died very old and forgotten in Cologne after many years of serious illness.

Paul Krewer's brother, Hans, was also a racing driver. He died of appendicitis in 1933 at the age of 20.

Private

His great passion, which he also preferred to cycling, was hunting. He had leased his own hunt in the Rhine region, and retired there whenever possible. For the sake of the hunt, he even occasionally refrained from cycling.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ayhan Demirci: Gravel for Hitler's Siegfried Line - contemporary witnesses solve puzzles about the mysterious wreck of Lake Escher. In: Express. June 3, 2018, accessed May 19, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Paul Krewer. In: the cycling pages. Retrieved May 19, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b c Illustrated Cycling Express . No. 1/1949 . Express-Verlag, Berlin, p. 6 .
  4. ^ Illustrated cycling sport , February 17, 1933
personal data
SURNAME Krewer, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Duisburg
DATE OF DEATH 1997 or 2000
Place of death Cologne