Walter Sawall (born July 18, 1899 in Morgenroth near Beuthen , † January 31, 1953 in Erkner ) was a German racing cyclist .
Athletic career
Even in his school days, Walter Sawall was extremely athletic and a very good gymnast . He left school at 15 because he had eight siblings and had to contribute to the family income. He worked as a bicycle messenger and newspaper driver and thus came into contact with cycling. In 1916 he drove his first race. He was discovered by the pacemaker Emil Meinhold as a stayer. Twice, in 1928 and 1931 , he was world champion of the standing and three times German standing champion (1927, 1929, 1931). At the 1928 World Championships, his opponent Victor Linart tried to prevent him from starting the finals by protesting his handcrafted saddle. Sawall had to remove the saddle. Since the optimal seat height was no longer suitable, he and his supervisor Gustav Hamann (known by the nickname "Blaubacke") had the idea of sewing a cut piece of fillet of beef into the racing pants. The position was right again and Sawall won the race. He also drove six days . The professional cyclist was sponsored by the Brandenburg car and bicycle company Brennabor and later by Opel . He later learned to fly and made friends with the aviator Elly Beinhorn during this time . His discipline and determination were the secret of his sporting success; he kept himself fit with forest running, cross-country skiing, ice hockey, boxing and a special breathing technique. With the money he had earned through sport, he bought his parents a house in Erkner.
For four years, Sawall's standard pacemaker was the French Ernest Pasquier , although the two could not communicate verbally. In 1931 the two parted in a dispute. In 1934 Walter Sawall retired from competitive cycling due to an intestinal disease. He died of a brain tumor in 1953.
Honors
In 1932, while he was still alive, the street in Erkner was named after him. Walter Sawall's nephew, Günther Georgens, left numerous memorabilia from his uncle to the Erkner Heimatmuseum.
Individual evidence
↑ Illustrated Cycling Express . No. 4/1948 . Express-Verlag, Berlin, p. 28 .
↑ a b Wolfgang Gronen / Walter Lemke: History of the bicycle and cycling , Eupen 1978, p. 287
↑ a b Valuable memory of Walter Sawall. Märkische Oderzeitung, November 26, 2008, accessed on December 4, 2013 .
↑ Illustrated cycling , February 1, 1931
literature
Fredy Budzinski: Taschen-Radwelt , Berlin 1921
Web links
1892 Oskar Breitling | 1895 Paul Mündner | 1896 Josef Fischer | 1897 Fritz Opel | 1898 Alfred Köcher | 1905, 1911, 1912 Peter Günther | 1906 Anton Huber | 1907, 1908 Thaddäus Robl | 1909 Arthur Stellbrink / Werner Krüger | 1910 Richard Scheuermann | 1913, 1915 Gustav Janke / Werner Krüger | 1914, 1919, 1924 Karl Saldow | 1916–1917 not held | 1918 Franz Krupkat | 1920, 1921, 1926 Karl Wittig | 1922 Paul Thomas | 1923 Jean Rosellen / Willi Heßlich | 1925 Karl Saldow / Christian Junggeburth | 1927, 1929, 1931 Walter Sawall / Emil Meinhold | 1930 not held | 1931 Erich Möller / Léon Didier | 1933, 1939 Erich Metze | 1935, 1936, Erich Metze / Maurice Ville | 1934 Erich Metze / Karl Saldow | 1937 Adolf Schön / Jupp Merkens | 1938, 1944 Walter Lohmann | 1939 Erich Metze / Willi Heßlich | 1940 Toni Merkens / Arnulf Meinhold | 1941 Walter Lohmann / Jupp Merkens | 1942, 1950 Erich Bautz / Jupp Merkens | 1943 Walter Lohmann / Arnulf Meinhold | 1946, 1948, 1949 Walter Lohmann / Ceurremans | 1947 Jean Schorn / Jupp Merkens
1950 Erich Bautz / Jupp Merkens | 1951–1953 Walter Lohmann / Georges Grolimund | 1954 Karl Kittsteiner / Fritz Erdenberger | 1955, 1957 Valentin Petry / Otto Faltin | 1956 Heinz Jakobi / Emile Vandenbosch | 1957 Valentin Petry / Johannes Käb | 1958, 1959 Heinz Jakobi / Kurt Schindler | 1960, Karl-Heinz Marsell / Werner Schmidt | 1961 Karl-Heinz Marsell / August Meuleman | 1963 Karl-Heinz Marsell / Albertus de Graaf | 1962 Achim Holz / Werner Schmidt | 1964 Horst Staudacher / Werner Schmidt | 1965, 1966 Ehrenfried Rudolph / Otto Faltin | 1968, 1969 Ehrenfried Rudolph / Bruno Walrave | 1970–1974 not held | 1975 Dieter Kemper / Norbert Koch | 1976 Dieter Kemper / Dieter Durst | 1977 not held | 1978 canceled due to doping | 1979 Wilfried Peffgen / Dieter Durst | 1980–1981 not held | 1982 Werner Betz / Ernst Graf | 1983 not held | 1984, 1985 Werner Betz / Dieter Durst | 1986–1987 not held | 1988 Werner Betz | 1989 Torsten Rellensmann / Manfred Schmadtke | 1990, 1991 not held | 1992 Roland Günther / Dieter Durst | 1993, 1994, 1995 Carsten Podlesch / Dieter Durst | 1996 Torsten Rellensmann / Christian Dippel | 1997 Stefan Schmitz / Manfred Schmadtke | 1998 Carsten Podlesch / Christian Dippel | 1999 Andreas Kappes / Dieter Durst | 2000, 2001, 2002 Carsten Podlesch / Bruno Walrave | 2003, 2004 Stefan Klare / Christian Dippel | 2005, 2006 Carsten Podlesch / Helmut Baur | 2007 Jan Eric Schwarzer / Christian Dippel | 2008 Timo Scholz / Peter Bäuerlein | 2009 Mario Vonhof / Dieter Durst | 2010 Marcel Möbus / Helmut Baur | 2011, 2012, 2013 Florian Fernow / Peter Bäuerlein | 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Stefan Schäfer / Peter Bäuerlein | 2018 Franz Schiewer / Gerd Gessler | 2019 Christoph Schweizer / André Dippel | 2019 not held
German champions until 1992 professionals, then "open". If known, with details of the pacemaker
1895 Jimmy Michael | 1896 Arthur Chase | 1897 Jack William Stocks | 1898 Richard Palmer | 1899 Harry Gibson | 1900 Constant Huret | 1901, 1902 Thaddäus Robl | 1903 Piet Dickentman | 1904 Robert Walthour / Jan Olieslagers | 1905 Robert Walthour / Franz Hofmann | 1906, 1907 Louis Darragon / Franz Hofmann | 1908 Fritz Ryser / Josef Schwarzer | 1909, 1911 Georges Parent | 1912 George Wiley | 1913 Paul Guignard / Gus Lawson | 1914–1919 not held | 1920 Georges Sérès | 1921, 1924, 1926, 1927 Victor Linart / Arthur Pasquier | 1922 Léon Vanderstuyft | 1923 Paul Suter / Ernest Pasquier | 1925 Robert Grassin / Léon Didier | 1928 Walter Sawall / Ernest Pasquier | 1929, 1932 Georges Paillard / Georges Grolimund | 1930 Erich Möller | 1931 Walter Sawall / Georges Grolimund | 1933, 1935 Charles Lacquehay | 1934 Erich Metze / Karl Saldow | 1936 André Raynaud | 1937 Walter Lohmann / Arnulf Meinhold | 1938 Erich Metze / Maurice Ville | 1939–1945 final or World Cup not held | 1946, 1949 Elia Frosio | 1947, 1950 Raoul Lesueur | 1948 Jean-Jacques Lamboley | 1951 Jan Pronk / Frits Wiersma | 1952, 1953, 1954 Adolph Verschueren / Maurice Ville | 1955, 1962 Guillermo Timoner / Felicien Van Ingelghem | 1956 Graeme French / Georges Grolimund | 1957 Paul Depaepe / Emile Vandenbosch | 1958 Walter Bucher / Georges Grolimund | 1959, 1960, 1964, 1965 Guillermo Timoner / August Meuleman | 1961 Karl-Heinz Marsell / August Meuleman | 1963 Leo Proost / Emile Vandenbosch | 1966 Romain De Loof / Hugo Lorenzetti | 1967, 1968 Leo Proost / Norbert Koch | 1969 Jacob Oudkerk / Albertus de Graaf | 1970 Ehrenfried Rudolph / Bruno Walrave | 1971, 1972 Theo Verschueren / Norbert Koch | 1973, 1974, Cees Stam / Joop Stakenburg | 1975 Dieter Kemper / Dieter Durst | 1976 Wilfried Peffgen / Dieter Durst | 1977 Cees Stam / Bruno Walrave | 1978, 1980 Wilfried Peffgen / Dieter Durst | 1979, 1982 Martin Venix / Norbert Koch | 1981 René Kos / Bruno Walrave | 1983, 1985, 1986 Bruno Vicino / Domenico De Lillo | 1984 Horst Schütz / Christian Dippel | 1987 Max Hürzeler / Ueli Luginbühl | 1988, 1991 Danny Clark / Bruno Walrave | 1989 Giovanni Renosto / Walter Corradin | 1990 Walter Brugna / Mauro Valentini | 1992 Peter Steiger / Ueli Luginbühl | 1993 Jens Veggerby / Bruno Walrave | 1994 Carsten Podlesch / Dieter Durst
As far as known, with details of the pacemaker . No further world championships were held from 1995.
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