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Received in 2013 from Eva Maria Mann.
She thinks the pacemaker could be an (in-law) relative.
Eva Maria Mann www.flickr.com/photos/evamaria2010/

High probability that this is the Amsterdam Zeeburgerbaan (333,3 meter), which stood on a site along Zeeburgerdijk between 1901 and 1915. Notice the gaps between the slats! The wooden track was totally worn out. By the way, the track also had to disappear at this location due to housing construction.

Before that (from 1895, open: 1896 - 1900), this wooden track stood in Willemspark (later unfortunately built up), which then overflowed into Vondelpark.

My grandfather as a youngster also raced on this track; mainly as a ‘hare’ for expensive international riders. For him, a poorly paid job.

Private Photo

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Walter Sawall (* 18 July 1899 - † 31 January 1953) was a German cyclist.
He had his first competition in 1916 and his biggest successes around 1930.

For four years he rode behind Ernest Pasquier, a French pacer, though they could not speak each other"s language.

Sawall retired in 1934 due to a bowel disease. Cycling was then thought to be the cause. But that was never properly proven. He died in 1953 of a brain tumor.

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Publisher, Herausgeber, uitgever, éditeur, editor, wydawca: Verein Sportplatz, Leipzig

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(*2 November 1901 in Den Haag; †27 January 1966 idem)

One of the very strongest stayers the Netherlands ever knew. In 1927 alone, he won 56 major international races. Rode behind the big motors for 20 years.
stuyfssportverhalen.com/?tag=frans-leddy

After the end of his cycling career, during which he suffered numerous, sometimes serious, crashes, he was financially independent.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Leddy

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Karl Saldow (* 26 October 1889 in Berlin; † 31 May 1951 in Berlin) was a German racing cyclist.

Saldow came into contact with cycling as an apprentice mechanic and began racing actively in 1908. He bought his first racing bike for 100 Reichsmark from racing driver Eugen Stabe after earning only 180 Reichsmark in the entire season. Karl Saldow was one of the top German racing drivers before and after the First World War. In 1910, he won Rund um Berlin and came third in Berlin-Cottbus-Berlin. He then focussed on track cycling, in particular on standing races and six-day races.

Saldow competed in 22 six-day races in Germany, eight of which he won. He won six races together with Willy Lorenz. He won the six-day race in his home city of Berlin four times alone as a local hero.

Saldow became German standing champion four times (1914, 1919, 1924, 1925). With seven victories, he was the most successful rider in the Golden Wheel of Berlin.

After retiring from active cycling in 1928, he became a pacemaker. In 1934, he led Erich Metze from Dortmund to the world champion title in the professional stand-up category.

Karl Saldow lost his entire fortune during the Second World War. He was one of the top earners in cycling for many years, with cash winnings totalling 120,000 marks in the 1919 season alone. He took his own life on 31 May 1951.

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Saldow

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Jean Rosellen, born on 13 September 1891 in Cologne and died on 16 January 1952 in Kleve, was a German racing cyclist. Before the First World War, Jean Rosellen was one of Germany's best road cyclists, but after the war he turned to demi-fond racing.

After the war, Rosellen began working as a stayer with trainer Willi Heßlich. In 1923, he became German champion in this discipline. He raced in Paris in 1924. In 1927, he was trained by André Jubi. In 1928, he competed in the Buffalo Grand Prix middle-distance race, where he finished 4th.

According to ‘Illustrierter Radrenn-Sport’, he was the 5th German stayer with the most winnings in the 1928 season, with 36,150 marks.

In 1929, he retired as a stayer and tried his hand at training, but without much success.

Source: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Rosellen

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Photo of a track race held in Paris in 1902 behind big motorbikes. It looks to me like the start of the race; the moment when the cyclists have to find ‘their’ pacer. Indeed, the cyclists still look fresh, I think.

This card was sent in April 1903 from Trieste to Miss Anna X in Speising in Vienna's 13th district. Now Italian and Austrian respectively but still two cities within the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.

‘Miss’ says it all; Anna X was an unmarried or young woman.

On Google Maps, I saw that the house in question still exists. A well-maintained, detached house located some way off the road with a spacious garden surrounded by tall trees and hedges.

As the caption has been largely rendered thoroughly illegible, the question remains as to why exactly she received this card. Could the sender possibly have been one of the four cyclists? Nice thought.

There is also an interesting but not rare stamp on it. That green of 5 with the image of Emperor Franz-Joseph.

A stamp that in late 1914, like the red of 10, was used to quickly issue two stamps with surcharge. The surcharge was intended to support widows and orphans after the disastrous Battle of Lemberg for Austria-Hungary.

The battle of Lemberg
In the First World War, the Battle of Lemberg, now Lviv in Ukraine, took place from 23 August 1914 to 11 September 1914. A major battle between the Russian Empire and Austria-Hungary in the Austrian province of Galicia.

The battle ended with the Russians taking Lemberg. 300,000 Austro-Hungarian soldiers were killed or wounded. In addition, the Russians made a total of 130,000 prisoners of war.

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On the back of this card is written 'Schrittmacher' but unfortunately no names. No idea who these are. Two are wearing 'Triumpf Rad' jerseys. I also see two 'bathrobes' like cyclists wore a lot back then on the bottom row.
And it's cosy. At least one person has a hearty cigar in his hand.

Not sent. Printed at Photo-Porsi, Hauptmarkt 18, Nürnberg.

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Hungarian poster. Only partly readable for me. It could be the year 1920 because Pentecost then fell on Saterday, May 23. And Paul Nettelbeck is just then active. (His autobiography, Vom Marathonlaüfer zum Rad-Rennfahrer, was published in 1924/25.)

The drawing shows "U.T.E. stadium". Apparently the place where it was all going to happen.
Does anyone have an idea where that stadium is/was and what U.T.E. means?

No idea what match 'iron rails' was on that May 23.

The poster begins with:

'The biggest sporting event of the Pentecost holidays
International motor- and
cycling racing'

It also talks about motorraces.

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Walter Sawall (* 18 July 1899 - † 31 January 1953) was a German cyclist.
He had his first competition in 1916 and his biggest successes around 1930.

For four years he rode behind Ernest Pasquier, a French pacer, though they could not speak each other"s language.

Sawall retired in 1934 due to a bowel disease. Cycling was then thought to be the cause. But that was never properly proven. He died in 1953 of a brain tumor.

Emil Meinhold (* 23 December 1878 in Pobershau; † 26 November 1955 in München) was a German pacemaker and cyclist. From 1920, he led Walter Sawall, among others, who was one of the most successful standers behind Meinhold and became German champion three times. In 1931 Meinhold resigned as pacemaker.

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The Scheveningsche Wielerbaan, started in 1888 as a track made of rolled rubble. Between 1907 and 1916 a wooden track. Demolished to make way for housing development. In 1921 replaced by (a very successful) cycling track in the neighboring town of Rijswijk.

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The ribbon reads:
Direktion Sportpalast
Franfurt a. M
Festhalle
16. XII. 1928

In English:
Direction Sports Palace
Frankfurt a. M
Festival Hall
16. XII. 1928

(I read 1328 but it will be 1928.)

The Frankfurt Sports Palace in the Festival Hall had just opened then (early November 1928).
In the photo, a stayer unknown to me, flanked on the left and right by, judging by their attire, pacemakers. In the background left is an official plus a young man who is probably an assistant to the stayer.
Does anyone recognize any of these men?

From the 1930s to the mid-1960s, my grandfather rode more often in Frankfurt as a pacemaker.

The Festhalle played an important role in the Holocaust. On the night of 8 to 9 November 1938, during the November pogroms hundreds of Frankfurt's Jewish citizens were driven across the city centre to the Festhalle and some were seriously mistreated. The noted Frankfurt Opera singer Hans Erl was forced to sing "In Diesen Heil'gen Hallen" ("In These Holy Halls"). From here, the first mass transports went into the Nazi concentration camps.


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Certainly a Dutch cycling track (based on mentioned source: photo album of a Dutch family living in The Hague). Possible but certainly not proven: velodrome Rijswijk. Slats Scheveningse Wielerbaan (other candidate cycling track) are in width. Here they lie in the length.

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Professional stayer Böschlin in Brennabor sweater. What he had won?

In any case, the decoration with ribbons obstructs the view of the bike. That must have been a Brennabor. But which model I dare not say.

Brennabor regularly advertised that he was riding one of their bikes, alongside a few other well-known cyclists.

Böschlin lived in Strasbourg in 1912 according to the Belgian newspaper 'De Volksstem'.

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Cycling in the interwar period in the Netherlands.

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