Thaddäus Robl

Thaddeus ( Thaddy ) Robl ( born October 22, 1877 in Kleinaschau in Garmisch, † 18 June 1910 in Szczecin in a plane crash ) was a German racing cyclist.

Life

Thaddeus Robl ill as a child to brain fever, and was partially paralyzed, but he practiced secretly biking on a penny-farthing of his father. In 1896, he was professional racing driver and drove mainly pacemaker race.

In 1898 he finished the road race Paris -Bordeaux third place, but then resorted to track cycling. Robl was two -time world champion, multiple European Champion and won numerous other titles. In 1900 he was second in the 24 -hour race Bol d'Or in Paris behind Mathieu Cordang, with driven 864 kilometers and 775 meters. He was one of the biggest sports stars in Germany after the turn of the century and established the boom of cycling as a spectator magnet. From 1905 to 1909 he was the absolute high earners on German cycling tracks.

1909 rose Robl of the bike around on the plane. On June 18, 1910 after he had started emerging in spite of strong winds to a demonstration, he was thrown out 20 meters from the exploding engine and slain by the engine. He was the first fatalities of civil aviation on German soil.

Since Robl only left debts collected his friends and followers for the mother of unmarried Stars several thousand Reichsmarks. In 1906 he had ( called Villa Thaddy ) you bought a house in Munich- Feldmoching (then Moss Street 134, today Schwarzhölzlstr. 48 ), which still stands today.

Thaddeus Robls grave is located at the Munich Old South Cemetery. As a reminder, a street was named after him in Munich.

Gallery

Train the hearse by Stettin

Consecration of the body

Transfer to Munich

Robls grave in Munich

The Robl Memorial in Munich, his mother in the middle

Works

• Thaddeus Robl, The sport of cycling, Leipzig 1905 ( in collaboration with Fredy Budzinski ).