RC Herpersdorf

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The RC Herpersdorf 1919 was a cycling club in Nuremberg , which produced numerous successful cyclists from the 1940s to the 1980s. After bankruptcy in 2008, there has been a new club since 2011 that bears this name.

history

The association was founded in Gaulnhofen in 1919 as Frischauf Gaulnhofen , the members initially organized mainly bike tours and dance events. Due to the global economic crisis , the club's operations soon came to a standstill, until 1926 the club moved to Herpersdorf , a district of Nuremberg since 1972 , and a new chairman, 21-year-old Konrad Schwab, and 17-year-old Andreas Egerer were elected treasurer . Both directed the fate of the association into the 1970s. Now the maintenance of the cycling sport has been included in the statutes, a provisional mini cycling track was built for training and the club in cycling u. Herpersdorf Motorsport Club renamed. In 1927 the first street race organized by the club took place.

From 1936 onwards, the RC Herpersdorf organized the street race “Great Street Prize of Herpersdorf”, which was held 26 times until 1979. At times the race was called the “Great Express Road Prize” because it was sponsored by the Express Bicycle Works . For a number of years the factories also operated a professional team of the same name, for which members of the association started. Most recently the race was called the “Great Tucher Street Prize in Herpersdorf”. The track training of the club athletes was carried out on the Reichelsdorfer Keller cycling track .

From 1940 to the 1980s, the club's athletes won three World Cup gold medals, one Olympic bronze medal, 53 German individual and 35 German team championships; A total of 171 Herpersdorf drivers stood on the podium as German champions. This is a successful series that is still unique in German cycling today. As the first racing club in the Federal Republic of Germany, RC Herpersdorf was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Theodor Heuss .

Known drivers

Cyclist who for the RC Herpersdorf drove, were among other four-time German stayer Master Heinz Jakobi , the two-time national champion in tandem race Werner Loew and his tandem partner Fritz Neuser , the multiple German champion in short-term disciplines on the track Willi Fuggerer , the three-time stayer world champion Horst Gnas , the multiple German road and rail champion Karl Kittsteiner , the multiple German champion Gerhard Stubbe , the pacemaker Dieter Durst and the successful train driver Otto Bennewitz . Fuggerer was also the first cyclist of the club, who won an Olympic medal, one bronze medal in the tandem race at the Olympic Games in Melbourne . More recently, Heinrich Haussler started as a teenager for RC Herpersdorf .

Bankruptcy and a fresh start

After the death of longtime sports director, Andreas Egerer, the association built, who is also a tennis department had, in 1988 with money left by him a tennis court . Many members who did not agree with this building left the association. In 2007, the maintenance costs for the hall could no longer be applied, and the club went into 2008 bankruptcy . In order to be able to maintain the cycling business, the club VfR Herpersdorf was founded in 2009 , which has been able to call itself RC Herpersdorf (without year) since 2011 . The Marin Bikes Herpersdorf team belongs to the club .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Manfred Marr: After the bankruptcy with the story not broken. nordbayern.de, December 31, 2009, accessed June 30, 2014 .