Paul Krewer

Paul Krewer ( born June 10, 1906 in Duisburg, † ca 1997 in Cologne ) was a German racing cyclist.

Paul Krewer visited the school in Duisburg, then he moved to Cologne to work in the bicycle business of his father. Only now, at age 16, he learned to ride a bike. His sponsor was the Cologne racer Paul Oszmella. As an amateur Krewert denied mainly aviator race; He started for the RC Eagle Cologne. In 1926 he turned professional and turned to the then lucrative upright sport.

Paul Krewer counted from the mid- 1920s to mid-1930s, the most popular uprights in Germany. Twice, in 1927 and 1934 he was vice-champion in the professional uprights, 1929, he was third. In several years, he took the podium at the German stayer championships. In 1928, the result of the German stayer championship was canceled because Krewer had agreed with Erich Möller to the detriment of Walter Sawall.

Paul Krewers identification was an Indian head on the jersey, which is why he was also called " Indi ".

At the beginning of his career Krewers was pacing the Bergheim Christian Junggeburth, with whom he had become 1927 World Cup runners- together. 1929 caused Krewer in Bonn in a traffic accident; his car collided with a tram. Junggeburth who had sat with him in the car, was seriously injured in this accident and died a few days later in hospital from blood poisoning.

Paul Krewer died after many years of serious illness stricken in years and forgotten in Cologne.

Also, the brother of Paul Krewer, Hans, had been racing. He died in 1933 at the age of 20 years of appendicitis.