Reinhard Kramer
Reinhard Kramer (* 1937) is a German racing cyclist and was the initiator and organizer of the Hanover Night .
Life
Born shortly before the Second World War , Reinhard Kramer developed his passion for cycling as a schoolboy when he competed with his classmates in the Eilenriede . And still as a teenager he joined the (later) Hanoverian Cycling Club from 1912 (HRC). In the years of reconstruction , Reinhard Kramer became chairman of the HRC as early as 1966 .
The former banker at Hannoversche Volksbank , who still rode his bike 50 to 60 kilometers a day as a 72-year-old, has never won a race and was “at most second or third”. But as a trustworthy conversation partner in town halls , meticulous organizer of more than 300 bicycle races and finder of sponsors , he finally made a name for himself nationwide: Kramer initiated the first night of Hanover in 1975 with up to 80,000 spectators, "said Erik Zabel , Jan Ullrich and Mario Cipollini to Hanover ”. Cycling legends like Rudi Altig regularly sent birthday greetings.
From 1993 to 2005 Kramer was Vice President of the Lower Saxony Cycling Association .
At the age of over 70, the retiree withdrew from the organization of the HRC in 2009 and received the title of honorary chairman . After he had organized the night in Hanover 25 times and turned a lap of honor with Jan Ullrich , who had come specially to say goodbye to Reinhard Kramer, the audience thanked him with applause, as if Kramer had won the race himself. The Karnevalist 2010 organized his last fools parade for the Committee Hannoverscher carnival or about the 9th Döhrener Jazz - Festival , highlighted most recently the premiere of Velo Challenge from the baptism which he and Detlef Roebuck planned.
For the 100th anniversary of the HRC, Reinhard Kramer was co- author of the 2012 festschrift .
Honors
- In 1997, Reinhard Kramer was honored with the Lower Saxony Cross of Merit on ribbon for his services to cycling in Hanover by Lower Saxony's Minister of Economic Affairs, Peter Fischer
- In April 2010 Reinhard Kramer was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st Class, by Lord Mayor Stephan Weil , on behalf of the Federal President , “for his extraordinary services to the promotion of cycling” .
- On June 16, 2016, Reinhard Kramer's voluntary commitment was honored by Mayor Stefan Schostok in the New Town Hall of Hanover with the award of the Hanover city plaque.
Fonts
- Zs. With Edda Rogge and Thomas Munz: Hannoverscher Radsport Club von 1912 eV A foray through 100 years of club history , Hannover: self-published, 2012. ( online on the club website)
literature
- Jan Sedelies : Reinhard Kramer / Der Rastlose , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung from June 15, 2010.
Web links
- Reinhard Kramer with carnival singing on wir-sind-hannoveraner.de/stimmarchiv , last accessed on April 30, 2012
- Reinhard Kramer on the homepage of velo-challenge.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Jan Sedelies: Reinhard Kramer / Der Rastlose (see literature)
- ↑ Karl-Heinz Grotjahn MA: Hannoverscher Radsport-Club (HRC) from 1912 eV In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (ed.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 265.
- ↑ a b Edda Rogge, Reinhard Kramer, Thomas Munz: Hannoverscher Radsport Club ... (see literature)
- ↑ a b c Michael König: Federal Cross of Merit for Reinhard Kramer ( 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. on the page radsport-rennrad.de from April 19, 2010, last accessed on April 30, 2012
- ↑ Reinhard Kramer Over 60 years of cycling in Lower Saxony - women and men in responsibility ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the side of the Lower Saxony Cycling Association
- ↑ Michael Kramer (press spokesman): 50,000 celebrate the night of Hanover on the page nacht-von-hannover.de/news.html of August 23, 2009, last accessed on April 30, 2012
- ↑ a b Rita Girschikofsky (President of the City Sports Association of Hanover): Greeting. In: Edda Rogge, Reinhard Kramer, Thomas Munz: Hannoverscher Radsport Club ... (see literature), p. 14
- ↑ Festschrift zum 100-year-olds, p. 52; However, there are of 1998 talk
- ↑ Andreas Krasselt: Stadtplakette shows: Volunteering is not an obsolete model. In: [[Neue Presse (Hanover) |]] of June 17, 2016
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kramer, Reinhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cyclist, initiator and organizer of the Hanover Night |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1937 |