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The RV Neisse 1885 in the year it was founded, Mrs. Schneider with a tricycle (3rd from left)
Frau Schneider, German bicycle pioneer (1908)

Ms. Schneider (born August 11, 1835 - December 1, 1917 in Neisse ) from Neisse, now Poland, was named in an article in the Berliner Tageblatt in 1908 as the first German woman cyclist . Accordingly, she began driving a tricycle in 1883 .

Her first name is unknown. The Berliner Tageblatt reported on her in 1908 and 1915 as Frau Choralist Schneider , and an article also appeared in “ De Amsterdammer ” in the Netherlands . Her husband Hermann Schneider is named in 1908 as a piano tuner and "choralist" (church musician) of the Catholic parish church of St. Jakobus . The couple lived in the choral house at church square no. 83 in Neisse.

In 1883 the Schneider couple bought a tricycle for 700 marks that had been imported from England by the Frankfurt company Kleyer . Mrs. Schneider was 48 years old at the time. Besides the Schneiders, there was only one other cyclist in Neisse who rode a high-speed bike himself and taught the couple to ride a bike. Their first trip together ended in a fall, and since there was no knowledgeable mechanic on site, the tricycle had to be sent back to Frankfurt for repairs. In later years, Ms. Schneider reported on the “sad times” for cyclists, especially women: “A woman on the bike! [...] scornful expressions, mean swear words, if nothing worse hit my ear [...]. ”Her father, however, prophesied a great future for“ the thing ”.

In 1885 Mrs. Schneider and her husband Hermann were among the co-founders of RV Neisse . In October 1908 she celebrated her 25th anniversary as a cyclist, which her club celebrated with a big party. The tricycle on which the couple had made their first attempts was also shown at the festival. As an anniversary present, Ms. Schneider received a new bike: “The splendid ladies' machine, designed with all the modern achievements of modern times [...], was a very interesting contrast to its venerable predecessor and was an overwhelming expression of the progress that the bicycle industry had made in a short time Quarter of a century. "

Ms. Schneider rode her bike until two years before her death, when she was no longer able to do so for health reasons.

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References and comments

  1. ^ Date of birth according to Allgemeine Sport-Zeitung , August 22, 1915, p. 453, online ; Date and place of death according to Allgemeine Sport-Zeitung , December 16, 1917, online.
  2. ↑
    Wikisource: The first German female cyclist. In: Berliner Tageblatt. August 21, 1908, morning edition, 1st supplement, p. 3.  - Sources and full texts
  3. ↑ Cf. A veteran of cycling , in: Berliner Tageblatt, No. 428, Monday, August 13, 1915 , digitized in the Stabi Berlin.
  4. ↑ Frau Schneider's first name may have been Bertha. On November 25, 1856, the 21-year-old Hautboist of the 4th Upper Silesian Infantry Regiment No. 63 Hermann Louis Hugo Schneider from Neisse married Bertha Anna Auguste Hermann from Ottmachau , Grottkau, in Neisse .
  5. ^ Local family book Neisse: Family report: Hermann Louis Hugo SCHNEIDER. (accessed on June 8, 2018)
  6. ↑ 6 September 1908, pagina 5 - De Amsterdammer , De Amsterdammer 6 September 1908, accessed June 4, 2018 (article translated into Dutch and taken from the Berliner Tageblatt)
  7. ^ Address book of the city of Neisse 1908/09. A. Schneider's Nachf. R. Sponer, Neisse 1908. pp. 113, 184, 313.
  8. ↑ a b Renate Franz : A pioneer of the wheel . In: Association of historical bicycles (ed.): The bone shaker. Magazine for lovers of historic bicycles . tape 61 , 2016, p. 33 .
  9. ↑ Allgemeine Sport-Zeitung , December 16, 1917, online.
personal data
SURNAME cutter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1835
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1917
Place of death Neisse