Peter Uhlig (motor sportsman)
Peter Uhlig (born May 21, 1940 in Kemtau ; † September 1, 1971 in Zschopau ) was a German enduro athlete who started for the GDR . In motorcycle off-road driving, he was among the world's best in the 1960s. He became European champion in 1968 and won the International Six Days ( 1963 , 1964 , 1965 , 1966 , 1967 and 1969 ) with the GDR team six times , which was then considered the unofficial world championship.
For winning the Six Days in 1967, the team was voted GDR Sportsman of the Year (Peter Uhlig together with Klaus Halser , Werner Salevsky , Hans Weber , Klaus Teuchert and Karlheinz Wagner ).
In the GDR, Peter Uhlig was the leading driver in the 175 cm³ displacement class for ten years, in which he became GDR champion without interruption from 1961 to 1970 . He achieved a number of victories in important international races, e.g. B. 1966 and 1967 with the Valli Bergamasche ( Italy ) and 1966 with the International Austrian Alpine Tour .
At the end of the 1950s, Peter Uhlig met Bernd Uhlmann at the MZ motorcycle factory in Zschopau , and both volunteered to join the National People's Army . A little later you came to ASK Vorwärts Potsdam as a motorcycle racer (trainer: Werner Rosenbrock ) and thus began your successful career (Bernd Uhlmann, among others, three times as a member of the Six Days winning team).
Peter Uhlig has been driving in the 350 cm³ displacement class since 1970, and in 1971 he won the renowned race around Zschopau .
Three weeks before the international six-day race in 1971, which was held for the first time as the official world championship, Peter Uhlig died of the consequences of a traffic accident in Zschopau. He was married to Erika Uhlig , a successful canoe slalom skier (under the name Erika Schönfeld, among other things, 1965 world champion in the mixed discipline), and had a son.
In the courtyard of Schloss Wildeck in Zschopau there is a memorial stone for Peter Uhlig and two other deceased members of the team at the time, Hans Weber (1941–1969) and Werner Salevsky (1940–1991).
In 1970 Peter Uhlig was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver.
swell
- Steffen Ottinger: Around Zschopau . The story of an off-road motorcycle ride. tape 1 . Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft Marienberg, Marienberg 2004, ISBN 3-931770-49-4 , p. 35 ff .
- Steffen Ottinger: Around Zschopau . The story of an off-road motorcycle ride. tape 2 . HB-Werbung und Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Chemnitz 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-036705-2 , p. 20th ff .
- Steffen Ottinger: International six-day race 2012 . The story since 1913. HB-Werbung und Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Chemnitz 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-039566-6 , p. 45 ff .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , January 24, 1970, p. 3
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Uhlig, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German motor sportsman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kemtau |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st September 1971 |
| Place of death | Zschopau |