Paul Nettelbeck

Paul Nettelbeck

Nettelbeck as a soldier in the First World War

Paul Nettelbeck (born April 23, 1889 in Berlin , † June 14, 1963 in Salzburg ) was a German medium and long-distance runner and cyclist .

Life

From childhood on, Paul Nettelbeck was very enthusiastic about sports; he practiced ice hockey , ice skating , swimming , running and cycling . In 1906 he put his emphasis on running, but also competed in cycling. In 1908, Paul Nettelbeck, who started for SC Charlottenburg , was a runner German champion over 1500 meters in 4: 22.8 minutes. Before that he had already won the German marathon in Hamburg with a time of 3:10:00 h. In 1908 Nettelbeck was the first member of his club to take part in the Olympic Games in London and started running over 5 miles , but without placing himself. In 1912 the “International Marathon Derby for the World Championship” with the best professional long-distance runners in the world took place in the Berlin Sports Palace . Nettelbeck took second place behind the Canadian marathon world champion Hans Holmer .

From 1912 to 1928 Nettelbeck was as pro active -Radrennfahrer, mainly as a stayer . At first he started behind the pacemaker Max Bauer. With this he won a race in Scheveningen , which he himself later described as his most beautiful success. In 1914 he was third in the German Stayer Championship. In 1919 it was led by pacemaker Emil Meinhold ; it was the most successful year of his career for him. The team won 22 races, and Nettelbeck was the second best long-term driver of the season behind Karl Saldow with a total of around 90,000 gold marks . In 1913 he set three (unofficial) world records for four, five and six hours in Munich, which lasted for a long time.

In the first half of 1927 at the latest, Nettelbeck was involved in so-called "troop races": his colleague Erich Vinzelberg is said to have organized these "partly under false pretenses" and recommended them to other racecourse managers together with a total of 8 other racing cyclists. Since this happened contrary to the ban, despite publicly published warnings and despite the threat of severe penalties by the Sports Committee of the Federation of German Cyclists (BDR), the BDR ordered the following drivers to be withdrawn from the license to cycle until further notice: Paul Nettelbeck (Berlin-Wilmersdorf ), Erich Abraham (Neukölln), Erich Vinzelberg (Berlin), Adolf Weber (Berlin-Charlottenburg), Otto Michaelis (Magdeburg), Fritz Lähne (Halle an der Saale), Ernst Krahner (Berlin), Gustav Skroblin (Berlin) and Teunus Vermeer (Amsterdam). The behavior of the three drivers Vinzelberg, Weber and Nettelbeck a few weeks earlier during joint races in Prague is said to have been decisive for the sentence .

After the end of his cycling career, Paul Nettelbeck, who wrote two books about his sporting career, moved with his wife to Salzburg and founded the cycling club “Salzburger Radler 1933” there. After the war, he looked after art cyclists and, despite his age, still learned this sport himself.

Fonts

• From marathon runner to racing cyclist , 52 pages, with illustrations, Berlin: G. Hackebeil, 1924
• A life of records. From marathon runner to racing cyclist , Salzburg 1962

Web links

Commons : Paul Nettelbeck  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Paul Nettelbeck in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Paul Nettelbeck in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• History of SCC Berlin (SC Charlottenburg)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Verlag der Radwelt (ed.): Sport album of the Rad world . Strauss-Verlag, Berlin 1920, p. 101 .
2. ↑ The former champion runner and current racing cyclist P. Nettelbeck (x = photo) broke the 6-hour world record on April 27, 1913 on the Olympiaparkbahn. in Rhine and Düssel (No. 19), from May 10, 1913
3. ↑ Hans Borowik : 300 racing drivers in one volume . Deutscher Schriftenverlag, Berlin 1937, p. 38 .
4. ↑ o. V .:  Cycling / The BDR against the troops. In:  Sportblatt am Mittag / Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , May 11, 1927, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).
5. ↑ salzburg.gv.at ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.1 MB)