Wolfgang Schoppe

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Wolfgang Schoppe (born August 21, 1941 in Leipzig ) is a German cycling official and author.

In the DDR

Wolfgang Schoppe himself was active as a racing cyclist and was involved in the establishment of the company sports association BSG Aufbau Centrum Leipzig . In addition, as chairman of the BSG racing commission in the German Cycling Association of the GDR (DRSV), he organized a competition program for athletes outside of the state-sponsored cadre clubs and a senior citizens' cup.

In the 1970s, Wolfgang Schoppe stood up for the politically persecuted cyclist Wolfgang Lötzsch . As early as 1975, the Stasi noticed that during the 1975 peace trip he had sought friendly contact with West German athletes, including Rudi Altig . After Loetzsch was imprisoned in 1976 for "defamation of the state", Schoppe was put under pressure to work for the Stasi, which he refused. He then lost his position as head of department and acting production director at VEB Medizintechnik Leipzig and was only allowed to work as a simple employee until the fall of the Berlin Wall . In addition, he was banned from working as a sports official for two years.

After the turn

After the reunification, Wolfgang Schoppe became president of the DRSV, and thus the last of the association. In this capacity, together with Werner Göhner , then President of the Association of German Cyclists , he cleared away the bars between the bunks of the two German teams at the UCI Track World Championships in 1990 in Maebashi . This symbolic act had been carefully planned by the presidents of both associations, who toasted the “ fall of the wall ” between the teams with champagne. Schoppe presented Göhner with the last jersey of the GDR national railway team, the BDR president reciprocated by giving GDR athlete Carsten Wolf , who was celebrating his birthday that day, the new, common German jersey. The BDR agency had already worn this jersey in Maebashi.

Then was Schoppe to 2013 Vice President of the Federal German cyclists for latitude and senior sport . After he did not run again for reasons of age, he was made an honorary member.

Wolfgang Schoppe, who also likes to ride his bike himself, is strongly committed to staying sport as he did in the GDR era . Among other things, he brought the 2001 European Championships to Leipzig as well as many German stayer championships, such as 2009 and 2011, where Mario Vonhof and Florian Fernow won. As head of the German national team's delegation, Schoppe continues to accompany the athletes to the Standing European Championships.

In the Saxon Cyclist Association (SRB) Schoppe is engaged as a specialist in public relations and tradition maintenance and as a collector and cycling archivist, he is also the author of several books on cycling history. From 1990 to 2006 he was managing director of the SRB and is still the editor in charge of the magazine Radsport in Sachsen , which has been published six times a year for 22 years. Until 2010 he was also President of the Friends of the Sächsisches Sportmuseum Leipzig eV, which he co-founded.

Publications

  • With Werner Ruttkus : In the shine and shadow of the rainbow. A look back at world championships in cycling in Germany from 1895 in Cologne to 1999 in Berlin . Wünsdorf 2000.
  • With Werner Ruttkus: step by step. From 13 decades of history of the Association of German Cyclists . Frehner Consulting, 2012, ISBN 978-3-929371-23-9 .
  • With Werner Ruttkus: Rundkreisel & Berliner Luft: On the trail of the Berlin six-day race . Wünsdorf 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Volker Brix: Nothing works for him without cycling. stayer.de, August 11, 2011, accessed on February 9, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Philipp Köster: Lötzsch. The long journey of a talent of the century . Covadonga Verlag , Bielefeld 2004, p. 101 f .
  3. ↑ 120 years of the Association of German Cyclists - 120 years of cycling in Leipzig ( Memento from September 10, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ The cyclist. 35/1990.
  5. ↑ Scharping announces resignation. T-online, February 28, 2013, accessed February 9, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Wolfgang Schoppe is now an honorary member of the BDR. Association news BDR, accessed on February 9, 2014 .
  7. ^ Say goodbye ... Sports Museum Leipzig, archived from the original on February 16, 2012 ; Retrieved February 9, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Schoppe, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cycling official
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig