Willi Heßlich

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Willi Heßlich

Willi Heßlich (born July 20, 1882 in Dresden as Heinrich Martin Willy Heßlich ; † April 13, 1940 ibid) was a German racing cyclist and pacemaker .

Willi Heßlich, son of a bricklayer, did an apprenticeship as a mechanic and thus came into contact with bicycles and cycling. In 1900 he competed in his first race as an amateur . After his military service from 1902 to 1904, he decided to set the pace and successfully competed in front of the stayer Kurt Rosenlöcher . In 1907 he suffered a complicated broken leg after a fall. In 1910 Heßlich switched to racing driver Arthur Schipke . After the war he led mainly Jean Rosellen , with whom he became German champion of professional stayers in 1923. In 1939 he led Erich Metze to the German championship title and in 1940 Georg Umbenhauer to second place in the standing DM behind Toni Merkens .

Willi Heßlich's younger brother, Walter , was also a pacemaker; he led the Dutch world champion Piet Dickentman , among others . He had a fatal accident in 1951 while training on the Andreasried cycling track in Erfurt . He was the great-grandfather of the Olympic champion and multiple world champion in sprint , Lutz Heßlich .

From 1911 until his divorce in 1921, Heßlich was first married to the cashier Ottilie Augusta Hertha Schulz; he entered into his second marriage to Maria Klara Ida Mehlig in 1927.

literature

  • Sport-Album der Rad-Welt 1921 , Berlin 1922, p. 107f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register StA Dresden I, No. 1230/1882
  2. ↑ Death register StA Dresden V, No. 820/1940 (after notification of death)
  3. ↑ Stayers, stars and sensations: Since 1885 Andreasried Erfurt , brochure, p. 27
  4. ^ Marriage register StA Dresden I, No. 147/1911

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personal data
SURNAME Ugly, Willi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing cyclist and pacemaker
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1940
Place of death Dresden