Werner Weber (cyclist, 1926)
Werner Weber (born April 4, 1926 in Chemnitz ) is a former German racing cyclist and national cycling champion who was active as a road cyclist in the GDR .
Athletic career
Weber began cycling in Chemnitz in 1941 and had 35 victories in youth races by 1944. In the penultimate year of the Second World War he was drafted, became a prisoner of war and did not return from there until 1949. In 1950 he took up cycling training again. Weber belonged to the community BSG Astra Chemnitz, in whose jersey he won the Saxon state championship in 1950. A year later he moved to BSG Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt. With the Wismut team he was twice GDR champion in the team time trial , in 1951 with Fichtner, Funke, Lothar Meister I , Siegel and Turk and in 1952 with Funke, Heymann, Lothar Meister I, Siegel and Bernhard Trefflich .
Weber took part in the International Peace Tour in 1951 . After a bad luck accident and material damage on the first stages, he fell back in the classification and finished the tour in 41st.
His most important success besides the national championship titles was his victory on the first stage of the GDR tour in 1951 from Berlin to Stralsund in front of the fast Rudi Kirchhoff . With the victory, he also secured the yellow jersey of the overall leader. He won two more stages by winning the third and sixth stages of the GDR tour in 1950 in a sprint. He took part in the GDR tour a total of five times for his community or for the selection of Saxony . 10th place in 1951 and 11th place in 1950 were his best results in the overall ranking.
The blazing fast Weber achieved further victories, especially in circuit races. He ended his career in late 1959.
Job and family
Weber is a car mechanic by profession. He worked in a car maintenance workshop, which he took over as the owner in later years. In 1955 he moved to Schönau . His nickname among racing drivers was "honeycomb". His first child was born in August 1954, and he found out about the successful delivery immediately after arriving at the destination of the GDR tour in Halle . After his active racing career , he was still working as a referee in cycling races .
Web links
- Werner Weber in the Radsportseiten.net database
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (ed.): Cycling Week . No. 16/1960 . Sportverlag, Berlin 1960, p. 16 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weber, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German racing cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemnitz |