Rudi Kirchhoff

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Rudi Kirchhoff was the stage winner in the "Peace Tour of Nations" in 1951

Rudi Kirchhoff (born May 13, 1928 in Brandenburg an der Havel ; † July 26, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German racing cyclist .

Life

Kirchhoff learned the profession of baker. He came to Berlin in 1950 and found SC Dynamo Berlin through the SG Einheit Berliner Bär , SG Semper Berlin and SC Einheit Berlin in 1956 . In 1956 he became a member of the German People's Police (DVP) and worked for 30 years in traffic control, most recently in the office and with the rank of VP Obermeister. Kirchhoff was a traffic policeman in Berlin who had his precinct at Alexanderplatz and accompanied the International Peace Tour as a policeman on a motorcycle.

Athletic career

In the 1950s, Rudi Kirchhoff was one of the most successful road racing drivers in the GDR . He won around Berlin four times alone (1952, 1954, 1956 and 1958). He was able to win the longest cycle race in the GDR, Berlin-Cottbus-Berlin, in 1951 and 1958.

In the GDR tour , in which he started ten times, he finished third in the overall ranking in 1954 . One of his palmares this year was winning the difficult Harz Tour . At the International Peace Tour in 1952, he was 30th overall. In 1955 Kirchhoff won the classic Rund um die Hainleite and in 1956 he took part in the Tour of Egypt and was the first GDR stage winner in this race. He won national championship titles in team driving on the road in 1950, 1953 and 1954. He was a cyclist for a total of 18 years.

Kirchhoff racing gear can be viewed in the Wünsdorf Cycling Museum near Berlin. After the end of his active cycling career, he was a coach at Dynamo Weißensee.

Web links

Commons : Rudi Kirchhoff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rudi Kirchhoff turns 60 today, Berliner Zeitung , May 13, 1988, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Egon Adler won the Leipzig trip. Neues Deutschland, April 12, 1960, p. 3 , accessed October 31, 2013 .
  3. ↑ BDR (ed.): Cycling . 54th year. Cologne November 30, 1999, p. 10 .
  4. ^ Section cycling in the GDR (ed.): Cycling week . 2nd year, no. 28/1954 . Sportverlag, Berlin 1954, p. 4 .
  5. ↑ Klaus Ullrich: Drives the million . Sportverlag, Berlin 1967, p. 251 .
  6. ↑ Berliner Zeitung , January 31, 1961, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Kirchhoff, Rudi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Brandenburg on the Havel
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 2013
Place of death Berlin