Willy Arend
Willy Arend (born May 2, 1876 in Hanover , † March 25, 1964 in Berlin ) was a German cyclist and first German professional world champion. Willy Arend was a track sprinter , then called "Flieger", and one of the German cycling stars before and after the First World War .
Life
After finishing school, Arend initially worked as a construction technician; He learned to ride a bike when he was 15 years old, while still on a penny biking . He drove his first race in 1894, the following year he switched to the Niederrad and was henceforth successful in numerous races as an amateur . In 1896 he turned professional after his amateur status had been doubted anyway.
In 1897 Arend became the first German professional world champion in track cycling in Glasgow . He also won the European Championship three times (1897, 1898 and 1901). In 1896 he became German champion for the first time and in 1921, after 25 years, for the second time. Because of his handsome appearance he was particularly popular with the audience, was called the "beautiful Willy" and cheered on with "Feste Willy, feste". His victory against the US sprint world champion of 1899, Major Taylor , in Berlin in 1901 caused great enthusiasm . Then beer was sold as “Arend-Bräu” and the “Willy-Arend-March” was even composed in his honor.
In his best years from 1895 to 1905, Arend earned a total of 130,000 Reichsmarks in prize money , a fortune for the circumstances.
In 1901 Arend became 1st Chairman of the German Racing Drivers Association (DRV).
In order to continue to secure his existence, he opened a cigar shop in Berlin. In the years that followed, however, the popularity of sprinter races declined among the public, who preferred to attend the more spectacular standing races , so that Arend sometimes had to drive for a tenth of his previous awards.
For this reason Arend finally started eleven six-day races and won two, in 1910 in Bremen and Kiel (together with Eugen Stabe ). When he retired from the racetrack in 1926 at the age of 50 , he had been a professional cyclist for a total of 30 years, according to his own assessment "the oldest racing driver in the world".
World economic crises and two world wars consumed Arend's fortune. In 1964 he died impoverished in Berlin.
Fonts
- Willy Arend: My most beautiful race , in: Sport-Album der Rad-Welt , 17th year, 1919.
- Willy Arend: Der Radrennsport , Vol. II: Das Fliegerrennen , from the library for sports and games series , with numerous illustrations, publisher: Grethlein & Co, Leipzig and Zurich, undated (around 1920) - contains an autobiographical representation ( Pp. 28-96).
literature
- Fredy Budzinski: Willy Arend. A biography from the series of biographies of famous racing drivers , Vol. 4, Berlin: Verlag der "Rad-Welt", 1914
- Hans Borowik : 300 racing drivers in one volume , Berlin 1937
- Adolf Klimanschewsky: The unleashed world champion , Berlin 1955
- Walter Euhus : Speech sport. Hanover's historical cycling , Langenhagen 2001, pp. 98-102
- Karin Brockmann, Stefan Brüdermann, Walter Euhus, Thomas Schwark : Hanover goes cycling. History - Sport - Everyday life , Braunschweig: Kuhle Buchverlag Braunschweig GmbH, 1999, ISBN 3-923696-90-6
- Dirk Böttcher : Arend, Willy , in: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 30f., Online via Google books
- Dirk Böttcher: Arend, Willy. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 33.
Web links
- Willy Arend on cycling4fans.de
- Willy Arend in the database of Radsportseiten.net
Individual evidence
1895 Robert Protin | 1896 Paul Bourillon | 1897 Willy Arend | 1898 George A. Banker | 1899 Major Taylor | 1900 Edmond Jacquelin | 1901, 1902, 1903, 1906, 1908, 1911 Thorvald Ellegaard | 1904 Iver Lawson | 1905 Gabriel Poulain | 1907, 1910 Émile Friol | 1909 Victor Dupré | 1912 Frank Kramer | 1913 Walter Rütt | 1914–1919 not held | 1920 Robert Spears | 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926 Piet Moeskops | 1925 Ernst Kaufmann | 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930 Lucien Michard | 1931 Willy Falck Hansen | 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1947 Jef Scherens | 1938, 1948, 1953 Arie van Vliet | 1939–1945 final or World Cup not held | 1946, 1957 Jan Derksen | 1949, 1950, 1951, 1954 Reg Harris | 1955, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1964 Antonio Maspes | 1958 Michel Rousseau | 1963 Sante Gaiardoni | 1965, 1966, 1968 Giuseppe Beghetto | 1967, 1969 Patrick Sercu | 1970 Gordon Johnson | 1971 Leijn Loevesijn | 1972, 1973 Robert Van Lancker | 1974 Peder Pedersen | 1975, 1976 John Nicholson | 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986 Kōichi Nakano | 1987 Nobuyuki Tawara | 1988 Stephen Pate | 1989 Claudio Golinelli | 1990, 1992 Michael Huebner | 1993 Gary Neiwand | 1994 Marty Nothstein | 1995 Darryn Hill | 1996, 1997, 1998 Florian Rousseau | 1999, 2003 Laurent Gané | 2000 Jan van Eijden | 2001 Arnaud Tournant | 2002 Sean Eadie | 2004, 2006, 2007 Theo Bos | 2005 René Wolff | 2008 Chris Hoy | 2009, 2010, 2012, 2015 Grégory Baugé | 2011, 2016 Jason Kenny | 2013 Stefan Bötticher | 2014 François Pervis | 2017 Denis Dmitriev | 2018 Matthew Glaetzer | 2019, 2020 Harrie Lavreysen
1895 August Lehr | 1896, 1897, 1921 Willy Arend | 1898 Franz Verheyen | 1908 Richard Scheuermann | 1909 Otto Meyer | 1910, 1919, 1920, 1923 Walter Rütt | 1914 Eugen Stabe | 1922, 1924, 1926 Willy Lorenz | 1925 Willy Gottfried | 1927 Alex Fricke | 1928, 1929, 1932 Mathias Engel | 1930, 1931 Peter Steffes | 1932–1939 Albert Richter | 1940, 1941 Jean Schorn | 1942 Toni Merkens | 1946–1947, 1949–1954 Georg Voggenreiter | 1948 Werner Bunzel | 1955–1960, 1962–1965 Werner Potzernheim | 1961 Günther Ziegler | 1966, 1967 Hans-Peter Kanters | 1969 Peter Glemser | 1975 Udo Hempel | 1976 Horst Schütz | 1992–1996, 1998–1999, 2002 Jens Fiedler | 1997 Eyk Pokorny | 2000, 2004 Jan van Eijden | 2001, 2005 Stefan Nimke | 2003 René Wolff | 2006, 2007 Matthias John | 2008, 2013 Robert Förstemann | 2009 Carsten Bergemann | 2010 Tobias Wächter | 2011, 2012, 2014 Stefan Bötticher | 2015, 2016, 2017 Maximilian Levy | 2018, 2019 Maximilian Dörnbach
The sprint was not consistently carried out at the German Railway Championships.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Arend, Willy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German racing cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover , |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 25, 1964 |
| Place of death | Berlin |