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Roland Kopf (* presumably 1956 in Kehl ) is a former German motorcycle racer and entrepreneur.

Life

Roland Kopf was born in Kehl-Goldscheuer as the son of a retailer family. He attended elementary and secondary school in the Goldscheuer district and then until 1975 the Lender home school .

He got into motorcycle racing through the daily use of technology in his parents' business. As a member of Dieter Braun Racing team of Dieter Braun went head race in the 350-cm³- and 250 cc class. At the last German championship run of the 1980 season at the Nürburgring , his championship title in the 250 cc class was already certain. Head came off the track during the race, when he accelerated across the lawn towards the road again, the front wheel of his Yamaha got stuck in a water ditch running across the track. Head fell headlong over the handlebars at a speed of around 70 km / h and landed on his back. He suffered a vertebral fracture and has been paraplegic ever since .

On September 9, 1981, Roland Kopf opened the large discotheque Drops in his hometown, which was very well known in the 1980s and 1990s. He also operated the pirate station Radio Drops in Strasbourg from 1987 to 1989 , which broadcast on 107.7 MHz. At the border to Karlsruhe , a relay transmitter operated by radio relay on 105.90 MHz was added later. It was broadcast in German, French and Alsatian. The team also included Sandra Laeske and Uwe Carsten, who both came to Schwarzwaldradio via Hitradio Ohr , and Tom Weyer alias " Commander Tom ", who became successful in the techno scene .

Kopf has been running a food wholesaling and retailing business in Kehl for many years, now as an online business, a hardware store since 2011 and an agency for event technology.

Since 2009 there have been "drops" revival events.

title

literature

  • Portrait of the German master Roland Kopf . In: Motorrad , No. 25, December 10, 1980, p. 124 ff.
  • Hendrik Nöbel: Dieter Braun. World champion and darling of the public . HB-Werbung und Verlag, Chemnitz 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-028612-4 , p. 8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Martin Egg: Those were the days. On September 9th, the “Drops” would have been 35 years old . Baden online, September 8, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b About us Racers . my-food-online, accessed on May 24, 2014.
  3. ↑ a b Hendrik Nöbel: Dieter Braun. World champion and darling of the public . (PDF) 2009, p. 8.
  4. ↑ Goldscheurer "Drops" invites you to a revival . Baden online, June 24, 2009.
  5. ↑ Drops Radio , 100 ans de radio, September 2, 2010.
  6. ^ Wolf-Dieter Roth (interview); Thomas Kircher (author); Jörn Krieger (employee): Roland Kopf. The story of Radio Drops / FM Kompakt meets Drops maker Roland Kopf . FM Compact, 2017.
  7. ↑ Company information on Roland Kopf my-food-online . Company knowledge ; accessed on July 10, 2018.
  8. ↑ Opening in the former Allshop in October . ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2014 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. Stadtanzeiger-Ortenau, August 16, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.staz-online.de
  9. ↑ Stefanie Müller: The "Drops" as an attitude to life . Baden online, September 6, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Head, Roland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German motorcycle racer and nightclub operator
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Throat