Wolfgang Grupe

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Wolfgang Grupe (front) 1955

Wolfgang Grupe (born August 24, 1930 in Hanover , † December 20, 1970 in Wettbergen ) was a German cyclist. He was active both in the Federal Republic and in the GDR .

Athletic career

On November 1, 1948, Grupe became a member of the Concordia cycling club in Hanover . He rose to the amateur class in 1949 and started at the German championship of road drivers, where he finished fourth. In the two following years 1950 and 1951 he finished second at the same championships. In 1953 he was accepted into the German national team of road drivers and called up in several international races. In addition, Grupe made a detour to track cycling and came third in the German championship in two-man team driving with his Hanoverian team-mate Horst Krüger.

After winning the Berlin stage trip in 1954, he moved to the GDR in February 1955. There the trained bricklayer was offered a place to study at the Leipzig Sports University DHfK and the SC DHfK took him over to its cycling section. On February 9th, he already competed in his first race wearing the SC DHfK Leipzig jersey on the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle track in Berlin. Among other things through his victory in the one-day race Berlin-Leipzig , he recommended himself for participation in the three-country stage trip International Peace Tour . At the eighth Peace Tour from Prague via East Berlin to Warsaw, Grupe achieved his best result of the day with eighth place on the seventh stage, in the overall standings he landed as the penultimate GDR driver in 26th place, 1:25 h behind the tour winner Gustav -Adolf Schur . A year later he was no longer part of the SC DHfK regular team and until the spring of 1957 he no longer appeared in the top places in important races. In the course of 1957 he left the GDR again “by night and fog” (www.linden-entdecke.de, see below). He graduated from competitive sports at the same time, but got involved again with his former club, RV Concordia, where he took care of the next generation of cyclists. He died of leukemia at the age of 40 .

literature

  • Klaus Ullrich. Every time in May . Sportverlag Berlin, 1987, ISBN 3-328-00177-8
  • GDR sports newspaper Deutsches Sportecho : Issue from April 25, 1955 with a short biography
  • Walter Euhus : Wolfgang Grupe. A German / German cycling history , in 1909 - 2009. 100 years of the Concordia cycling club from 1909 Hannover eV , anniversary publication, Hannover, 1909, passim ; as a PDF document for download on the linden-entdecke.de page

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Presidium of the Cycling Section of the GDR (Ed.): Cycling Week . No. 7/1955 . Sportverlag, Berlin 1955, p. 4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Grupe, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 20th December 1970
Place of death Wettbergen