Wolf-Jürgen Edler

Wolf-Jürgen Edler

To person
Date of birth	17th August 1936
date of death	March 12, 2016
nation	Germany
discipline	Road cycling , track cycling
Societies)
	Kreuzberger RVg 1889/1929
Team (s)
1960 1961 1962	Berolina Bluna Ruberg-Campagnolo
Most important successes
German railway championships 1960: - two-man team driving (with Wolfgang Schulze )

Wolf-Jürgen Edler (born August 17, 1936 in Frankfurt / Oder ; † March 12, 2016 in Berlin ) was a German racing cyclist .

Wolf-Jürgen Edler grew up in Potsdam until he moved to Berlin to do an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic at Siemens . He began his cycling career at the RV Rennhahn club and then switched to the Kreuzberg RVg . In 1958 he won around Cologne and finished 28th in the individual race of the road world championships . In 1959 he won the ninth stage of the GDR tour . In 1960 he was together with Wolfgang Schulze German champion in two-crew driving the amateurs , in the individual pursuit , he was German Vice Champion.

Then Edler turned professional and also started in six-day races . In 1964 he resigned from cycling. Two years later he allowed himself to be re-amateurized, but broke his collarbone in a race in 1967 and ended his active career for good.

literature

• Cyclists Association Berlin 1888. A journey through 125 years of club history in Berlin . Berlin 2013, p. 88 f .

Web links

• Wolf-Jürgen Edler in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary ( memento from May 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on the official website of the 129th German Track Cycling Championship, accessed on May 4, 2016