Walter Lohmann

Walter Lohmann ( born July 21, 1911 in Bochum, Germany, † April 18, 1993 in Sion, Switzerland ) was a German racing cyclist.

Cycling career

Walter Lohmann, a member of the Bochum "RV Petrel 04 " was the most popular German stayer of the 1930s to the 1950s. As a youth he had first interested in football and track and field; he attended trade school and completed a commercial apprenticeship. In 1927 he began as a street driver. As an amateur he won the 1932 race from Berlin - Cottbus- Berlin, Bochum Minster Bochum, Dortmund and finished around the same year in sixth place at the Road World Amateur Championship. He then moved to the web and won the 1934 Six Days in Berlin ( with Viktor noise ); the six- day race in New York, he fell and broke his collarbone. But since 1933 he drove mainly pacemaker race.

In the years 1935 and 1936 he won the Grand Prize of the Christmas stayer in Dortmund. He won at the Track World Championships 1937 in Copenhagen Ordrup in gold and silver in 1938 in Amsterdam. From 1938 to 1953, he was ten times German champion stayer of professionals. In 1952 he won at the World Championships in Paris again silver. Overall, he won more than 600 races in his career.

In February 1954 Lohmann was provisionally closed until June because he had the sporting director of the six- day race Otto Weckerlingplatz of which he felt discriminated against for a long time down boxed. In addition, he and Gustav Kilian Weckerlingplatz accused of manipulating race. Later Lohmann, after a hearing in which the allegations of him and Kilian could not be proved, revoked the license for two years, but this was later shortened to approximately one year.

On October 24, 1955 Walter Lohmann presented at the Velodrome stadium at the zoo with 46 years, two world records: For 100 km, it needed 1:03,40 hours, and he set a new hour record over 96.016 kilometers on. Due to rain, the record attempts were delayed until late at night, so the police came because residents had complained about the noise. On September 16, 1957 Lohmann drove his farewell race at the track stadium in Frankfurt.

Professional

In the early 1950s Walter Lohmann had purchased a tract of land in the center of Bochum, where he opened a restaurant; he also owned a gasoline station. For a few months he worked as national coach of the posts, gave this activity, however prematurely because of disputes with the German Cycling Federation on. In 1979, he fell while skiing and pulled to serious injury. As a result, he was nursing care, looked after by his wife Irmgard, who died in 2006.

Honors

1951 Walter Lohmann was honored by his hometown of Bochum deserving athletes. In 1996, the stayer school was named after him in forestry. Since 2005, Walter Lohmann Memorial Trophy recalls as part of the Sparkassen Giro Bochum to the cyclist.