RC Amor Munich

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The Amor -member Ludwig Hörmann has been successful in the postwar period.

The cycling club Amor 07 eV Munich is a cycling club in Munich . From 1937 to 1972 he operated the Amorbahn in Munich .

history

The most popular German racing cyclist before the First World War was Thaddäus Robl from Munich . In order to emulate their idol, nine men from the Neuhausen district founded the club in 1907 , which they called Amor because of their love for cycling . The members mainly took part in parade and hiking trips. Due to the war and its aftermath, it took until the 1920s for club life to gain momentum and the first racing cyclists to join the club. In 1921 the club was affiliated to the Association of German Cyclists (BDR) on the initiative of then chairman Georg Kaindl.

The racing drivers of the club achieved above all success on the Bavarian level. In 1933, however, Otto Weckerling became German runner-up in road racing . Later, the Cupid member and winner of the cycling race Across the Bavarian Highlands in 1934, Franz Josef Strauss , became particularly famous .

In 1939, Ludwig Hörmann from Munich joined the club and in the same year became German amateur road racing champion. After the war, he became the city's most successful and popular cyclist. He won a total of nine German championship titles on the track and on the road . In 1952 he was third behind the Schwenninger Heinz Müller and the Swiss Gottfried Weilenmann at the professional road championship in Luxembourg . The club was also joined by Georg Voggenreiter from Nuremberg , who became German sprint champion in 1943 and also won other championship titles in the years after the war.

Rudi Mirke from Breslau , who had become German champions in tandem races together with Voggenreiter in 1943 and 1944 , was one of the racing drivers who came from East Germany after the war and joined RC Amor , as did Hans Preiskeit (Breslau) and Harry from Berlin Saager . At first they competed as amateurs , but then moved on to the professionals. Saager won the IRA's Green Belt in 1949 , and Preiskeit became German road champion in 1955.

In 1952 Otto Altweck became a member of Amor and was to have a decisive influence on the club in the decades to come, initially as an active athlete until 1962; In 1959 he became German champion in the single pursuit and in 1960, together with his club mate Sigi Renz, national vice-champion in two-man team driving . After the end of his active career, he worked as a sports director from 1976 to 2002 and also trained the youngsters. Several times he successfully competed in international races in Masters classes and became world champion over ten times. His daughter Gabi Altweck , also a member of the club, won four German championship titles in sprint and pursuit and competed at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles . Other successful athletes from the ranks of the RC Amor were Uwe Messerschmidt , Thomas Dürst and Hans Neumayer .

In 1978 and 1979 , Amor member Dieter Berkmann was runner-up in the sprint world championship on the track.

In 1987, the anniversary year, the RC Amor hosted the German championship in four-man team driving as well as a new edition of Quer across the Bavarian highlands , and Prime Minister Strauss held the award ceremony in both races.

The cyclist Christian Grasmann has chaired the club since November 2015 .

Amorbahn

In 1937, the Cupids , as the club members call themselves, built the Amorbahn in Sendling , an ash cycle track with elevated curves. Since Thaddäus Robl's popular home track in Milbertshofen was demolished in 1912 , there had been no cycling track in Munich. In November 1943, the Luxembourg cyclist Richard Warnier was killed in a fall on this new track . (approximate former location of the Amorbahn)

As early as August 1945, the US occupation authorities gave the club permission to hold races on the Amorbahn, which were the first public sporting events in Munich after the war. Six consecutive days of racing in the fall of that year were sold out; Sometimes the rush was so great that the gates had to be closed.

In 1948, a new Amorbahn was built on the site of the old cycling track on Fuggerstrasse, designed by Clemens Schürmann , which offered space for 9,000 spectators and was in operation until 1972. At that time it was considered the “most beautiful and fastest” cycling track in Germany; it was 333 1/3 meters long, 7.25 meters wide and the curve elevation was 41.36 degrees. The track was officially opened on May 1, 1948 with a race day. 12,000 spectators saw the victory of the Bochum stalker Walter Lohmann . The first train attendant was the former pacemaker Emil Meinhold .

In the first year of its existence , the cyclist Heinrich Schwarzer set a new German hour record over 44.279 kilometers on the track, which was also used for standing races . Boxing matches also took place in the interior in 1948. In the same year, the club's chairman Fritz Schöpf von Schürmann had a 153 (later 166.6) meter long winter track built in an exhibition hall on the Theresienhöhe , on which six-day races and other professional and amateur races were held until 1954 , which were also organized by the club.

In 1949 the IRA's Green Belt tour , a predecessor of the Germany Tour , ended after 13 stages in the Amorbahn. In 1950, the German championships were in on this velodrome track cycling held. In 1963, the club member Sigi Renz won the German championship in two-man team driving for professionals together with Klaus Bugdahl . In the 1972 Olympic year, the Amorbahn served as a training facility for participants in the Olympic Games . The last race on the track in 1972 was the “Great Sprinter Prize in Munich”, won by the Frenchman Daniel Morelon .

Stock car races were also held in the interior of the cycling track .

literature

  • 80 years of RC Amor 07 eV Munich 1907–1987 . Anniversary magazine
  • 100 years of RC Amor 07 eV Munich 1907–2007 . Anniversary magazine

Web links

References and comments

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  2. ↑ Dominik Baur: 100th birthday of Franz Josef Strauss: The first terminator. In: taz.de . September 8, 2015, accessed February 8, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Manfred Marr: "The bull from the Isar" likes to cycle for his life , Münchner Merkur v. March 29, 2007  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 563 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stusta-rugby.de  
  4. ↑ Revolutionary at the roundabout. (No longer available online.) FAZ , February 4, 2015, archived from the original on February 4, 2016 ; Retrieved February 4, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / plus.faz.net
  5. ↑ The German cyclist. November 17, 1943.
  6. ↑ To what extent the Amor member Franz-Josef Strauss, who already held a public office in Bavaria in 1946, campaigned for the association can only be assumed.
  7. ↑ a b c d Münchner Radsport-Gschichten, Amorbahn: a documentation in pictures from 1948 - 1972 . Vereinte Versicherung, Munich 1998, p. 1 .
  8. ↑ list of schuermann-built cycle tracks worldwide 1-50. In: velodromes.com. April 3, 2098, accessed February 10, 2016 .
  9. ^ Ernst Hoferichter: Munich . Kindler Verl, 1958 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  10. ↑ a b Come on, Matze . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1949 ( online ).
  11. ↑ Walter Euhus : spokes sport. Hanover's historic cycling . Die Speiche, Langenhagen 2001, p. 176. ISBN 3-9807011-0-7
  12. ↑ Leonie Specht: History of the 6 day race in Munich. In: six days.info. Retrieved February 10, 2016 .
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  14. ↑ Organizing Committee for the XX. Olympiad Munich 1972 (Ed.): The games. The official report . 1, The organization. proSport, Munich 1974, p. 122 .
  15. ^ Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo, Diz Munich: Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo. In: sz-photo.de. February 1, 2024, accessed February 9, 2016 .