09.11.2021, 23:50
Dear friends,
there is also something brightening to tell about this November 9, the anniversary of the Reichspogromnacht: Today, the Cologne City Council finally decided to name the cycling stadium after the Cologne cyclist Albert Richter, who was murdered by the Nazis, and the square in front of it after his Jewish friend and coach Ernst Berliner.
The new cycling stadium will then be called Albert-Richter-Velodrom from 2025, with the address: Ernst-Berliner-Platz. Thank you to all supporters and fellow campaigners - it is very touching! #WiderDesVergessens
By the way, Nele Platten and Leon Küsche (Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium) proved in a special way that also young people deal with the past with their film about Albert Richter and Ernst Berliner, which won a state prize at the history competition of the Federal President.
www.fwg-koeln.de/home/334-landessieger-beim-geschichtswettbewerb
This podcast is also worth listening to: podcast9a0679.podigee.io/132-bahnrad-total
Let's hope that the new cycling stadium will now be built without delays and that we will all meet again at the opening ceremony at the latest. Stay healthy!
#NoMillimeterToTheRight
Eure Initiative Albert-Richter-Velodrom
Reinhold Goss, Michael Hokkeler, Andreas Hupke, Roland Schüler
08.01.2021, 22:24
"Cologne" prefixed to the heading = Better to grasp what it is about.
Neuer Titel: Rename the Cologne velodrom to Albert-Richter-Radstadion and name one square Ernst-Berliner-Platz
Unterschriften zum Zeitpunkt der Änderung: 531 (277 in Köln)
07.01.2021, 19:17
Tippfehler: Richters Vorname war falsch geschrieben, es muss natürlich auch in der engl. Version Albert und nicht Albrecht heißen.
Neue Begründung: A quarter of a century after only the track and not the stadium was named after Albrecht Albert Richter, it is time to name the cycling stadium as such after him, just as it is time to honour Ernst Berliner by naming a square.
Due to the different responsibilities, the two steps described above will be followed.
**Albert Richter**, born in Cologne-Ehrenfeld, is a German and international cycling legend and world champion in the amateur track sprint. He did his cycling laps here in Müngersdorf in the twenties and thirties. Under National Socialism, he stood by his Jewish manager and steadfastly showed his stance. Finally, in 1939, he was picked up by the Nazis on the border to Switzerland and put in prison, where he died.
**Ernst Berliner**, Richter's fatherly friend and manager, was Jewish and fled the Nazis with his family via the Netherlands to the USA. Nevertheless, he returned to the country of the perpetrators once after the war to have the murder of Albert Richter solved and to rehabilitate his name, whose successes and his person as such the Nazis had also tried to eliminate from sports history.
**Cologne's World Champion**
*Turning professional soon after his Rome triumph, he raced primarily in France and Britain under Berliner’s management. He moved to Paris, learning French from watching movies, and went on to win the Grand Prix de Paris in 1934 and 1938 again. The French, impressed by his powerful, fluid riding style, called him “the German Eight Cylinder.” (english)*
[http://www.tindonkey.com/2012/10/colognes-world-champion.html](www.tindonkey.com/2012/10/colognes-world-champion.html)
**About Albert Richter and Ernst Berliner at Wikipedia (english)**
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert\_Richter](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Richter)
### **Tiger-Leap the movie.**
*The story is about Ernst Berliner, a Jewish trackcycling-manager from Cologne-Ehrenfeld, who after WWII, he survived hidden in Zaandam in the NL, tried to open a case about the death of his friend and pupil Albert Richter. (english)*
[http://www.tigersprung-der-film.de/index\_EN.html](www.tigersprung-der-film.de/index_EN.html)
The Hall-of-fame of the Deutsche Sporthilfe pays tribute to Albert Richter as follows:
**Cycling world champion and Nazi victim.**
*As world champion in the amateur track sprint, Albert Richter was one of the most popular German athletes in the 1930s and was considered "anti-Nazi": he wore the jersey with the* imperial eagle\*, not the one with the swastika. (german)
[https://www.hall-of-fame-sport.de/mitglieder/detail/Albert-Richter/](www.hall-of-fame-sport.de/mitglieder/detail/Albert-Richter/)
An article on Albert Richter and Ernst Berliner can be found at Hagalil - Jewish life online:
N**o Hitler salute - The Cologne cyclist Albert "Teddy" Richter**
*The National Socialists almost succeeded and nobody would know the Cologne cyclist Albert "Teddy" Richter today. But only almost. (german)*
[https://www.hagalil.com/2020/01/albert-teddy-richter/](www.hagalil.com/2020/01/albert-teddy-richter/)
The biography that set the ball rolling for the first ever naming: **The forgotten world champion : the mysterious fate of Cologne cyclist Albert Richter.** *By the journalist Renate Franz, who meticulously illuminates the mysterious circumstances of Albert Richter's death, who was almost certainly a victim of the Gestapo, which would not allow a sportsman critical of the regime to leave for Switzerland shortly after the start of the war. (german)*
[https://www.covadonga.de/pdf/pr341.pdf](www.covadonga.de/pdf/pr341.pdf)
By the way, the current cycling stadium will be converted into the NRW Cycling Centre after the German Championships in August. Completion is planned for 2024.
Unterschriften zum Zeitpunkt der Änderung: 458 (253 in Köln)
04.01.2021, 12:00
Ergänzung um den Film Tigersprung in der englischen Fassung, sowie die Biografie von R. Franz.
Neue Begründung: A quarter of a century after only the track and not the stadium was named after Albrecht Richter, it is time to name the cycling stadium as such after him, just as it is time to honour Ernst Berliner by naming a square.
Due to the different responsibilities, the two steps described above will be followed.
**Albert Richter**, born in Cologne-Ehrenfeld, is a German and international cycling legend and world champion in the amateur track sprint. He did his cycling laps here in Müngersdorf in the twenties and thirties. Under National Socialism, he stood by his Jewish manager and steadfastly showed his stance. Finally, in 1939, he was picked up by the Nazis on the border to Switzerland and put in prison, where he died.
**Ernst Berliner**, Richter's fatherly friend and manager, was Jewish and fled the Nazis with his family via the Netherlands to the USA. Nevertheless, he returned to the country of the perpetrators once after the war to have the murder of Albert Richter solved and to rehabilitate his name, whose successes and his person as such the Nazis had also tried to eliminate from sports history.
**Cologne's World Champion**
*Turning professional soon after his Rome triumph, he raced primarily in France and Britain under Berliner’s management. He moved to Paris, learning French from watching movies, and went on to win the Grand Prix de Paris in 1934 and 1938 again. The French, impressed by his powerful, fluid riding style, called him “the German Eight Cylinder.” (english)*
[http://www.tindonkey.com/2012/10/colognes-world-champion.html](www.tindonkey.com/2012/10/colognes-world-champion.html)
**About Albert Richter and Ernst Berliner at Wikipedia (english)**
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert\_Richter](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Richter)
### **Tiger-Leap the movie.** *The story is about Ernst Berliner, a Jewish trackcycling-manager from Cologne-Ehrenfeld, who after WWII, he survived hidden in Zaandam in the NL, tried to open a case about the death of his friend and pupil Albert Richter. (english)*
[http://www.tigersprung-der-film.de/index\_EN.html](www.tigersprung-der-film.de/index_EN.html)
The Hall-of-fame of the Deutsche Sporthilfe pays tribute to Albert Richter as follows:
**Cycling world champion and Nazi victim.**
*As world champion in the amateur track sprint, Albert Richter was one of the most popular German athletes in the 1930s and was considered "anti-Nazi": he wore the jersey with the* imperial eagle\*, not the one with the swastika. (german)
[https://www.hall-of-fame-sport.de/mitglieder/detail/Albert-Richter/](www.hall-of-fame-sport.de/mitglieder/detail/Albert-Richter/)
An article on Albert Richter and Ernst Berliner can be found at Hagalil - Jewish life online:
N**o Hitler salute - The Cologne cyclist Albert "Teddy" Richter**
*The National Socialists almost succeeded and nobody would know the Cologne cyclist Albert "Teddy" Richter today. But only almost. (german)*
[https://www.hagalil.com/2020/01/albert-teddy-richter/](www.hagalil.com/2020/01/albert-teddy-richter/)
The biography that set the ball rolling for the first ever naming: **The forgotten world champion : the mysterious fate of Cologne cyclist Albert Richter.** *By the journalist Renate Franz, who meticulously illuminates the mysterious circumstances of Albert Richter's death, who was almost certainly a victim of the Gestapo, which would not allow a sportsman critical of the regime to leave for Switzerland shortly after the start of the war. (german)*
[https://www.covadonga.de/pdf/pr341.pdf](www.covadonga.de/pdf/pr341.pdf)
By the way, the current cycling stadium will be converted into the NRW Cycling Centre after the German Championships in August. Completion is planned for 2024.
Unterschriften zum Zeitpunkt der Änderung: 63 (30 in Köln)
04.01.2021, 01:50
Little changes like typographic adjustments
Neuer Petitionstext: We would like the cycling stadium in Cologne Müngersdorf to be renamed the Albert Richter Cycling Stadium and a square in the immediate vicinity of the cycling stadium to be named Ernst Berliner Platz.
Both designations will then be handed over to the public and the sports community in a special ceremony at the start of the German Track Cycling Championships (24 to 28 August 2021).
The implementation will take place in two separate processes:
1. the naming of the cycling stadium will be suggested by a citizen's motion of the initiative to the Cologne Council,
2. the naming of a square as Ernst-Berliner-Platz through a motion in the Lindenthal district council already in its meeting on 1 February 2021.
Reinhold Goss, Michael Hokkeler, Andreas Hupke and Roland Schüler have formed this initiative for this purpose.
**First signatories:inside signatories at the commemoration ceremony on the occasion of the 81st anniversary of the death of Albert Richter on 2 January 2021 are:** Oliver Becker, Lars Enders, Renate Franz, Siggi Graeve, Reinhold Goss, Michael Hokkeler, Andreas Hupke, Dr. Roland Kaufhold, Andreas Klemt, Gunter Maier, Holger Mülling, Lydia Pforte, Rainer Radtke, Roland Schüler, Michael Schowtka, Harald Schuster, Dr. Ute Symanski, Jan van Weegen, Claudia Weber-Höller, Thorsten Weber, Cornelia Weitekamp, Racing Team Cölle dasimmerdabei e.V., Scuderia Südstadt e.V.
Neue Begründung: A quarter of a century after only the track and not the stadium was named after Albrecht Richter, it is time to name the cycling stadium as such after him, just as it is time to honour Ernst Berliner by naming a square.
Due to the different responsibilities, the two steps described above will be followed.
**Albert Richter**, born in Cologne-Ehrenfeld, is a German and international cycling legend and world champion in the amateur track sprint. He did his cycling laps here in Müngersdorf in the twenties and thirties. Under National Socialism, he stood by his Jewish manager and steadfastly showed his stance. Finally, in 1939, he was picked up by the Nazis on the border to Switzerland and put in prison, where he died.
**Ernst Berliner**, Richter's fatherly friend and manager, was Jewish and fled the Nazis with his family via the Netherlands to the USA. Nevertheless, he returned to the country of the perpetrators once after the war to have the murder of Albert Richter solved and to rehabilitate his name, whose successes and his person as such the Nazis had also tried to eliminate from sports history.
**Cologne's World Champion**
Turning *Turning professional soon after his Rome triumph, he raced primarily in France and Britain under Berliner’s management. He moved to Paris, learning French from watching movies, and went on to win the Grand Prix de Paris in 1934 and 1938 again. The French, impressed by his powerful, fluid riding style, called him “the German Eight Cylinder.” (english)
(english)*
[http://www.tindonkey.com/2012/10/colognes-world-champion.html](www.tindonkey.com/2012/10/colognes-world-champion.html)
**About Albert Richter and Ernst Berliner at Wikipedia (english)**
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert\_Richter](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Richter)
The Hall-of-fame of the Deutsche Sporthilfe pays tribute to Albert Richter as follows:
**Cycling world champion and Nazi victim.**
*As world champion in the amateur track sprint, Albert Richter was one of the most popular German athletes in the 1930s and was considered "anti-Nazi": he wore the jersey with the* imperial eagle*, imperial eagle\*, not the one with the swastika. (german)*
(german)
[https://www.hall-of-fame-sport.de/mitglieder/detail/Albert-Richter/](www.hall-of-fame-sport.de/mitglieder/detail/Albert-Richter/)
An article on Albert Richter and Ernst Berliner can be found at Hagalil - Jewish life online:
N**o Hitler salute - The Cologne cyclist Albert "Teddy" Richter**
*The National Socialists almost succeeded and nobody would know the Cologne cyclist Albert "Teddy" Richter today. But only almost. (german)*
[https://www.hagalil.com/2020/01/albert-teddy-richter/](www.hagalil.com/2020/01/albert-teddy-richter/)
By the way, the current cycling stadium will be converted into the NRW Cycling Centre after the German Championships in August. Completion is planned for 2024.
Unterschriften zum Zeitpunkt der Änderung: 13 (9 in Köln)
04.01.2021, 01:45
Addition of two English-language sources
Neue Begründung: A quarter of a century after only the track and not the stadium was named after Albrecht Richter, it is time to name the cycling stadium as such after him, just as it is time to honour Ernst Berliner by naming a square.
Due to the different responsibilities, the two steps described above will be followed.
**Albert Richter**, born in Cologne-Ehrenfeld, is a German and international cycling legend and world champion in the amateur track sprint. He did his cycling laps here in Müngersdorf in the twenties and thirties. Under National Socialism, he stood by his Jewish manager and steadfastly showed his stance. Finally, in 1939, he was picked up by the Nazis on the border to Switzerland and put in prison, where he died.
**Ernst Berliner**, Richter's fatherly friend and manager, was Jewish and fled the Nazis with his family via the Netherlands to the USA. Nevertheless, he returned to the country of the perpetrators once after the war to have the murder of Albert Richter solved and to rehabilitate his name, whose successes and his person as such the Nazis had also tried to eliminate from sports history.
**Cologne's World Champion**
Turning professional soon after his Rome triumph, he raced primarily in France and Britain under Berliner’s management. He moved to Paris, learning French from watching movies, and went on to win the Grand Prix de Paris in 1934 and 1938 again. The French, impressed by his powerful, fluid riding style, called him “the German Eight Cylinder.” (english)
[http://www.tindonkey.com/2012/10/colognes-world-champion.html](www.tindonkey.com/2012/10/colognes-world-champion.html)
**About Albert Richter and Ernst Berliner at Wikipedia (english)**
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert\_Richter](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Richter)
The Hall-of-fame of the Deutsche Sporthilfe pays tribute to Albert Richter as follows:
**Cycling world champion and Nazi victim.**
*As world champion in the amateur track sprint, Albert Richter was one of the most popular German athletes in the 1930s and was considered "anti-Nazi": he wore the jersey with the Reich eagle, the* imperial eagle*, not the one with the swastika.*
swastika. (german)*
[https://www.hall-of-fame-sport.de/mitglieder/detail/Albert-Richter/](www.hall-of-fame-sport.de/mitglieder/detail/Albert-Richter/)
An article on Albert Richter and Ernst Berliner can be found at Hagalil - Jewish life online:
N**o Hitler salute - The Cologne cyclist Albert "Teddy" Richter**
*The National Socialists almost succeeded and nobody would know the Cologne cyclist Albert "Teddy" Richter today. But only almost.*
almost. (german)*
[https://www.hagalil.com/2020/01/albert-teddy-richter/](www.hagalil.com/2020/01/albert-teddy-richter/)
By the way, the current cycling stadium will be converted into the NRW Cycling Centre after the German Championships in August. Completion is planned for 2024.
Unterschriften zum Zeitpunkt der Änderung: 13 (9 in Köln)
04.01.2021, 01:07
Typografische Anpassungen nach der Übersetzung
Neue Begründung: A quarter of a century after only the track and not the stadium was named after Albrecht Richter, it is time to name the cycling stadium as such after him, just as it is time to honour Ernst Berliner by naming a square.
Due to the different responsibilities, the two steps described above will be followed.
**Albert Richter**, born in Cologne-Ehrenfeld, is a German and international cycling legend and world champion in the amateur track sprint. He did his cycling laps here in Müngersdorf in the twenties and thirties. Under National Socialism, he stood by his Jewish manager and steadfastly showed his stance. Finally, in 1939, he was picked up by the Nazis on the border to Switzerland and put in prison, where he died.
**Ernst Berliner**, Richter's fatherly friend and manager, was Jewish and fled the Nazis with his family via the Netherlands to the USA. Nevertheless, he returned to the country of the perpetrators once after the war to have the murder of Albert Richter solved and to rehabilitate his name, whose successes and his person as such the Nazis had also tried to eliminate from sports history.
The Hall-of-fame of the Deutsche Sporthilfe pays tribute to Albert Richter as follows:
**Cycling world champion and Nazi victim.
victim.**
*As world champion in the amateur track sprint, Albert Richter was one of the most popular German athletes in the 1930s and was considered "anti-Nazi": he wore the jersey with the Reich eagle, not the one with the swastika.*
[https://www.hall-of-fame-sport.de/mitglieder/detail/Albert-Richter/](www.hall-of-fame-sport.de/mitglieder/detail/Albert-Richter/)
An article on Albert Richter and Ernst Berliner can be found at Hagalil - Jewish life online:
**No N**o Hitler salute - The Cologne cyclist Albert "Teddy" Richter Richter**
*The National Socialists almost succeeded and nobody would know the Cologne cyclist Albert "Teddy" Richter today. But only almost.
almost.*
[https://www.hagalil.com/2020/01/albert-teddy-richter/](www.hagalil.com/2020/01/albert-teddy-richter/)
By the way, the current cycling stadium will be converted into the NRW Cycling Centre after the German Championships in August. Completion is planned for 2024.
Unterschriften zum Zeitpunkt der Änderung: 12 (9 in Köln)
