Association to protect the interests of Bavarian cyclists

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The Association for the Protection of the Interests of Bavarian Cyclists , since 1901 the association for the protection of the interests of Bavarian cyclists and motorists , was founded on March 27, 1896 and comprised the Kingdom of Bavaria . The association used its connections to politics to standardize the regulations for cyclists, to improve the roads in Bavaria and to simplify border crossings.

history

The club emerged from the association founded on November 15, 1895 to protect the interests of Munich cyclists .

“In the course of the past year, an association was formed in Munich to safeguard the interests of Munich cyclists , which all of the cycling corporations in Munich and the surrounding area soon joined. In March 1896, the Association for the Protection of the Interests of Bavarian Cyclists was founded in Munich, in which the above Munich Association was merged. As a result of the entry of a large number of individual drivers, put together in groups, and associations of cycling officers in most of the Bavarian regiments and military detachments , this Bavarian association grew to the height of 135 corporations and now has over 10,000 members. [...] "

Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria was the patron of the association . As early as 1898, the association to safeguard the interests of Bavarian cyclists, whose founding chairman was Colonel Hermann von Rotenhan (1836–1914), who was even referred to as the "forefather" of city cycling, had over 20,000 members and had very good connections in Bavarian politics . Von Rotenhan was not only the founder and founding president of the association, but also the creator of the medical cyclist column in the association, from which the German Samaritan and Medical Cyclist Association emerged in 1909 .

The entry of the association from 1897 with the request for standardization of the driving regulations and the establishment of a uniform cycling law in Bavaria in the Reichsratkammer found support from Reichsrat Hans Veit zu Toerring-Jettenbach and before the Chamber of Deputies from the Deputies Andreas Deinhard and Franz August Schenk von Stauffenberg . In 1898, the association obtained the enactment of the higher police regulations for cycling on March 1st of that year, which replaced all previously applicable regulations of lower administrative divisions and put the bicycle on an equal footing with a wagon . A “ticket” issued by the local police only for people over the age of 14 had to be carried. The association then belonged to the cartel of German and Austrian cycling and motoring associations founded in 1898 .

Further concerns of the association were the improvement of the roads, the transport of bicycles by rail, the lifting of the cycling ban for clergymen of individual archbishoprics etc. The association offered not only workshops but also legal protection.

From 1901 the association was called the Association to protect the interests of Bavarian cyclists and motorists . In 1925 the association joined the Association of German Cycling Associations founded in 1924 . The seat of the association always remained in Munich .

Member associations 1896/97

In 1896/97, the following cycling associations were members of the association to protect the interests of Bavarian cyclists :

Significant members

Honorary members (incomplete)

Publications

  • Colonel z. D. Freiherr von Rotenhan: The development of the country roads and the demands of the present on them with special consideration of Bavaria. Compiled by a specialist and published. on behalf of the Association for the Protection of the Interests of Bavarian Cyclists by the I. Board of Directors, Munich 1897.
  • Franz Ludwig Wirschinger : The right of cyclists in the Kingdom of Bavaria. Edited on behalf of the Association for the Protection of the Interests of Bavarian Cyclists, J. Schweitzer, Munich 1898.
  • Velociped ticket and list of routes allowed and forbidden in Bavaria. Published by the Association for the Protection of the Interests of Bavarian Cyclists, 1898.
  • Sheets for cyclists and motorists. Official body of the association to protect the interests of Bavarian cyclists and motorists; Editing and publishing house Augustenstrasse 82 , Munich.

literature

  • Cyclists' rights in the Kingdom of Bavaria  : edited and commissioned by the Association to protect the interests of Bavarian cyclists, Munich 1898, Berlin State Library - Prussian cultural property: digitized .
  • 2. Protection associations. By August Geisser - Regensburg. , in: Cycling in pictures and words , Acad. Verl. Munich, 1897, p. 201, digitized .

Web links

Wikisource: Yearbook of the German cycling clubs 1897/98 : Various associations, association for the protection of the interests of the Bavarian. Radfahrer, S. 147 f ..  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne-Katrin Ebert: Cycling nations: The history of the bicycle in Germany and the Netherlands until 1940. Campus historical studies; 52, Frankfurt: Campus-Verlag, 2010, p. 267.
  2. ^ Entry on the Association for the Protection of the Interests of Munich Cyclists in the catalog of the German National Library
  3. ↑ a b c d e f see web link to Wikisource
  4. ↑ The forefather of city cycling: Freiherr von Rotenhan built the first cycle paths in and around Munich. 5-Seen-Wochenanzeiger (Starnberger Anzeiger), June 13, 2017.
  5. ^ A b Anne-Katrin Ebert: Cycling nations. The history of the bicycle in Germany and the Netherlands until 1940. Campus Verlag, 2010, pp. 266–268. ISBN 978-3-593-39158-8
  6. ↑ Hermann von Rotenhan. In: Automobil-Rundschau. Issue 5, Mitteleuropäischer Motorwagen-Verein , 1906, p. 15.
  7. ↑ Use of medical cyclists by the "Association for the Protection of the Interests of Bavarian Cyclists" in the Bavarian Main State Archives .
  8. ^ Anne-Katrin Ebert: Cycling nations: The history of the bicycle in Germany and the Netherlands until 1940. Campus historical studies; 52, Frankfurt: Campus-Verlag, 2010, p. 269.
  9. ↑ cf. Yearbook of the German cycling clubs 1897/98: Various associations, association for the protection of the interests of the Bavarian. Cyclists , p. 147.
  10. ^ Journal of the Central European Motor Vehicle Association. No. 2, 1903.
  11. ↑ Collection Varia 19./20. Century No. 141 , State Archives Munich . ( available online )