Sepp Dinkelkamp
Josef "Sepp" Dinkelkamp (born February 17, 1907 in Zurich ; † May 5, 1984 in Lucerne ) was a Swiss track cyclist .
From 1929 until the beginning of the Second World War , Sepp Dinkelkamp was one of Switzerland's outstanding sprinters . During this time he was Swiss sprint champion eight times, twice as an amateur .
His first win of the professional title in 1934 was overshadowed by a tragic accident: Dinkelkamp competed against his mentor and three-time sprinter champion Emil Richli on the Zurich-Oerlikon cycling track in the final run. Richli had a bad crash at the start and died two days later. Dinkelkamp was a successful sprinter, but in the absence of pure sprint competitions, he also started in other disciplines, so he was considered a specialist in handicap races in which he could play his final speed.
Dinkelkamp was one of the closest friends of the German racing driver Albert Richter , who was allegedly killed by the Gestapo in 1940. After the war, Dinkelkamp wrote to Richter's parents: “I am happy to confirm that Albert was an anti-Nazi. Long before the war he saw the goings-on and the machinations of this gang of criminals, that's what Albert called the Nazis…. Had he cooperated with the Nazis, it would have been of great benefit to him. Albert chose the other way. "
Web links
- Sepp Dinkelkamp in the Radsportseiten.net database
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Boßhardt / Henry Eggenberger: Rennfahrer-Schicksale , Zurich 1950, p. 78ff.
- ↑ Peter Schnyder (Ed.): Oerlikon race track . AS Verlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-909111-95-4 , p. 85 .
- ^ Renate Franz : The forgotten world champion , Bielefeld 2007, p. 102
1892, 1893, 1895, 1896 Théodore Champion | 1894 Emile Kübler | 1897, 1898, 1899 Henri Henneberg | 1900 Jean Gougoltz | 1901, 1902, 1904–1906, 1908, 1910 Emil Dörflinger | 1903 Jean Aegerter | 1907 Oscar Schwab | 1909, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916 Henri Rheinwald | 1911 Emil Ingold | 1914, 1926 Oscar Egg | 1917–1925, 1927–1930, 1940–1943 Ernst Kaufmann | 1931–1933 Emil Richli | 1934–1939 Sepp Dinkelkamp | 1944 Werner Wägelin | 1946 Hans Hagenbusch | 1947–1955, 1958, 1960–1964 Oscar Plattner | 1957, 1959 Armin von Büren | 1956 Peter Tiefenthaler | 1965–1967 Fritz Pfenninger | 1977 Fritz Jost | 1978 Urs Freuler | 1979–1981, 1984 Heinz Isler | 1982, 1983, 1985–1987 Andreas Hiestand | 1988, 1989 Rocco Travella | 1991 Roy Salveter | 1990, 1992, 1993 Rolf Furrer | 1994–1998 Roger Furrer | 1999 Claudio Treig | 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006–2009 Patrik Merk | 2010 Alain Lauener | 2011, 2015 Gaël Suter | 2012 Franco Marvulli | 2013 Jan Keller | 2014 Tristan Marguet | 2016 Jan-André Freuler | 2017, 2018, 2019 Marc Frossard
(In years without information, the championship was not held, from 1977 "open".)
- ↑ The championship was held as an omnium, consisting of sprint and keirin.
1903 Friedrich Winsky | 1904 René Berger | 1905 Jules Meier | 1906 Marius Budry | 1907 Jean-Louis Richardet | 1908 Jakob Blum | 1909 Oskar Meister | 1910 Paul Suter | 1911 Johann Studer | 1912–1916 Ernst Kaufmann | 1917 Leon Bohn | 1918 Gottlieb Heimgartner | 1919 Hermann Gehrig | 1920 Jakob Kohler | 1921, 1923 Ernst Leutert | 1922 Edmund Klauke | 1924, 1925 Louis Mermillod | 1926 Charles Abegglen | 1927, 1928 Walter Knabenhans | 1929, 1930 Sepp Dinkelkamp | 1931 Werner Walter | 1932, 1933, 1935, 1936 Werner Wägelin | 1934 Willy Kaufmann | 1937, 1939 Edy Baumann | 1938, 1940, 1941 Hermann Ganz | 1942, 1943 Hans Hagenbuch | 1944–1946 Oscar Plattner | 1947, 1948 Eugen Kamber | 1949 Walter Iseli | 1950, 1951 Fredy Arber | 1952, 1959–1961 Kurt Rechsteiner | 1953, 1954 Peter Tiefenthaler | 1955, 1956 Albert Meier | 1957 Elmar Gassner | 1958 Arthur Frischknecht | 1962–1964 Jürg Boller | 1965 Karl Heberle | 1966, 1967 René Baumann | 1968 Bernhard Rüttimann | 1969, 1970, 1972 Ruedi Frank | 1971 Christian Brunner | 1973 Hansjörg Minder | 1974 Henry-Daniel Reymond | 1975, 1976 Walter Bani
(From 1977 the sprint championships for professionals and amateurs were held together. For more results see: Swiss champions in sprint )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dinkelkamp, Sepp |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dinkelkamp, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1907 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th May 1984 |
| Place of death | Lucerne |