Siegfried Huster

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Siegfried Huster (left) at the GDR road championships in 1966

Siegfried Huster (born December 21, 1943 in Lichtenau ) is a former German racing cyclist who was active in the GDR .

Athletic career

Huster began his career as an organized cyclist in 1959 as a 17-year-old with the company sports association (BSG) Wismut Aue . He had made his first attempts in 1957 in touring competitions. After completing his apprenticeship as an agricultural machinery driving instructor, in April 1962 he moved to SC Karl-Marx-Stadt , the west Saxon cycling center. This year he achieved podium places in important decisions in the men's category for the first time: At 168 cm in height and only 63 kg in body weight, he had the best possible qualifications as a mountain climber. In 1962 he was still able to qualify from performance class III to performance class I through a series of good placements. He was third in the GDR championship in road racing and the mountain championship . In 1964 he received the first call-up to the CSSR - tour. In 1965 and 1966 he was GDR road driving champion and in 1966 also GDR mountain champion. In 1967 he was able to successfully defend this title. Huster won his last GDR championship in 1968 with the four-man team from SC Karl-Marx-Stadt in the team time trial .

From 1964 Huster was part of the GDR national team in road racing. He was nominated for the road world championship in 1965, where he finished 45th as the third best GDR driver. In 1966 he started again at the World Cup, but retired early. At the 1967 World Championships he was again third-best of the GDR team in the individual race and this time came in 33rd place. From 1966 Huster appeared successfully in stage races . He won the Austrian three-day trip Vienna-Rabenstein-Gresten-Wien , was winner of the five-stage trip Grand Prix of Annaba ( Algeria ) in 1967 , second in the GDR tour and won the Austria tour , in which he was in the Overall classification tenth was the mountain classification . He achieved a success of which he was particularly proud on September 4, 1966, when he won the first stage of the Tour of Yugoslavia in Belgrade. This brought him his first and only leadership jersey on a major tour of the country in the first amateur category of the time.

Huster started four times at the International Peace Tour . When he made his debut in 1967 , he came third-best of five GDR drivers in the individual ranking, in 18th place. In 1968 he was 20th, but last of the GDR sextet. In 1970 he started in Paris at the Grand Prix de l´Humanité , where he fought for second place and thus again recommended himself for the peace ride. After a one-year break, Huster drove his strongest peace run in 1970 when he was the best-placed GDR driver in eighth place. At his last appearance at the Peace Drive in 1971 he was able to finish second in Zwickau, but only 59th in the overall ranking, again as the worst GDR participant. Also in the GDR tour, he finished 49th behind.

At the age of 27, Huster left the national team after the 1971 season and ended his active career after eleven years.

Trivia

In the DEFA film satire Nelken in Aspik from 1976, the character Siegfried Huster played a role played by the actor Erik S. Klein .

Professional

In 1965, Huster qualified as a driving instructor. After the reunification , Huster opened a driving school in Gera.

literature

  • Klaus Ullrich. Every time in May . Sportverlag Berlin, 1987, ISBN 3-328-00177-8
  • GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho . Issues from April 26, 1967 and April 19, 1968 with a short biography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 2/1966 . Berlin 1966, p. 10 .
  2. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . Born in 1967, No. 17 . Berlin April 28, 1967, p. 9 .
  3. ↑ Jacobs et al. a. (Ed.): VELO . 12th year. Brussels 1967, p. 201 .
personal data
SURNAME Huster, Siegfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Lichtenau