Team Stuttgart (1989–1990)

This article deals with the Stuttgart team from 1989–1990, to be distinguished from the cycling team of the same name from 2013–2015.

The team of Stuttgart was a German pro - cycling team , which consisted 1989-1990.

Team Stuttgart
Team data
nationality	Germany
First season	1989
Last season	1990
discipline	Street
Wheel manufacturer	Eddy Merckx
staff
Team manager	Winfried Holtmann
Name story
Years	Surname
1989-1990	Team Stuttgart

history

The team was founded by Winfried Holtmann and licensed as a professional cycling team from the Bund Deutscher Radfahrer (BDR) on January 1st, 1989 . Holtmann worked as a cycling manager, journalist and editor-in-chief of the Sindelfinger Zeitung . 

After the Summer Olympics in 1988, Holtmann tried to win German amateurs for his team as neo-professionals . With Bernd Gröne , Udo Bölts , Guido Eickelbeck , Werner Stauff and Werner Wüller , he was able to win some top German amateurs for his project. He made a conscious decision not to hire any “big names” in the first year. The former Olympic champion Hennie Kuiper became the sporting director .

In addition to a number of smaller sponsors, the Stinnes hardware store chain provided the financial framework for the team. Other important sponsors were the Eddy Merckx cycling company and the Gonso clothing company. Holtmann's credo was "not to be dependent on the favor of a single donor". The team's budget for the first year was an estimated two million Deutschmarks .

The Stuttgart team he founded became the forerunner of the Telekom team , later the T-Mobile team . The team was taken over by Deutsche Telekom in 1991 .

Among the team's greatest successes were the title wins in the German championships in 1989 by Darius Kaiser and in 1900 by Udo Bölts, as well as Erwin Nijboer's victories in the overall ranking of the three days of De Panne in 1990 and on the fourth stage of the Vuelta a España in 1990 .

successes

1989

• German championship
• one stage Schwaben Bräu Cup

1990

• Overall ranking Driedaagse van De Panne
• a stage Vuelta a España
• German championship
• a stage tour of Ireland
• Overall ranking and a stage Herald Sun Tour

Known former drivers

• Udo Bölts
• Hartmut Bölts
• Bernd Gröne
• Ludo Peeters
• Werner Stauff
• Dean Woods

Web links

• Team Stuttgart 1989 in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Team Stuttgart 1990 in the database of Radsportseiten.net

Individual evidence

1. ^ Munzinger-Archiv GmbH, Ravensburg: Winfried Holtmann - Munzinger Biographie. In: munzinger.de. June 4, 1941, accessed July 11, 2020 . 
2. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 27/1988 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1988, p. 2 .
3. ↑ Dangerous patch . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1989 ( online - 10 April 1989 ).