ATHLETICS

His biggest love was cycling. He got noticed by Ernst Berkiner, former cyclist with Jewish origins. In 1932 the Olympic Games were held and the Cycling Federation claimed it could not afford to send him to Los Angeles; according to some people, his trainer's Jewish origins cost him the stage. The same year he won at the World Games in Rome. Afterwards, in France, he became a champion. He always had an anti-nazi soul, in fact he refused to wear the Swastika on his race shirts. In a picture he results to be the only one who's not doing the Nazi greeting. The regime no longer tolerated him, so he was forced to leave Germany. In 1939 he went back to Germany for Belin GP, but was stopped. They found 127.000 francs in his bike's wheels, which he was bringing to a Jew to give him some help. He didn't make it alive.