Willy Gottfried
Willy Gottfried (born May 11, 1896 in Hanover , † December 10, 1968 in Hohen Neuendorf ) was a German racing cyclist .
Willy Gottfried learned to ride a bicycle at the age of ten and began an apprenticeship as a bicycle mechanic at the age of 14. A year later he drove his first youth races, but was soon called up as a soldier in the First World War, in the course of which he was wounded three times. It wasn't until 1920 that he was able to race again and became a professional . In 1923 he was German sprint runner-up and in 1925 he won the title. He also started in six-day races . Approx. In 1930 he resigned from active cycling.
literature
- Walter Euhus : Spoke sport . Hanover's historic cycling . Langenhagen 2001, ISBN 3980701107 , p. 112.
Web links
- Willy Gottfried in the Radsportseiten.net database
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.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gottfried, Willy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German racing cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 1968 |
| Place of death | Hohen Neuendorf |