Original German tracks

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1 hour ago, JohnHyam said:

This reply deviates from the set topic but I have great memories of two meetings on my only visit to Germany 'sometime in the late 1950s.' They were international events with riders from Germany, Holland, Poland and the UK. They took place at Bremen and Oldenburg.

iris123 has already posted some info about Bremen http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?/topic/91176-bremen-hansastadion/ and I will add some info about Oldenburg:

 

The Oldenburg Speedway operated for twelve years from 1952 until 1963, but they held only fifteen speedway meetings in total. The venue was the "Viktoria Kampfbahn" at Osternburg, which was a quite narrow 400m cinder track surrounding a football pitch.  

Here are some old photos http://www.oldenburgermedienarchiv.de/detail/media?page=1&mediafilter=all&container=tag&cid=1144  

 

The inaugural speedway meeting at Oldenburg on July 21, 1952, was a four team event, with a packed 12,000 sell-out crowd in attendance. This meeting was won by MSC Neumünster (59 Points) from MSC Oldenburg (57 Points), MSC Bremen (44 Points) and MSC Hamburg (37 Points). Oldenburg's local hero Hans Jäger set a one lap track record (from a flying start) averaging 62.2 kph.

 

For all the other fourteen individual meetings held at Oldenburg, these are the dates, the winners and placegetters:

2nd Meeting (July 19, 1953): 1st Hans JÄGER (Oldenburg), 2nd Fritz RINGEL (Hamburg), 3rd Hermann HUSS (Neumünster), 4th Walter GERNERT (Hamburg).

3rd Meeting (June 17, 1954): 1st Alfred DANNMEYER (Hamburg), 2nd Hans JÄGER (Oldenburg), 3rd Fritz RINGEL (Hamburg), 4th Hermann HUSS (Neumünster).

4th Meeting (May 19, 1955): 1st Heino RODICK (Oldenburg), 2nd Sedan GRAF (Hamburg), 3rd Walter GERNET (Hamburg), 4th Hans ZIOLKOWSKI (Hanover).

5th Meeting (July 29, 1956): 1st Hans JÄGER (Oldenburg), 2nd Paul CORDANG (Holland), 3rd Hans ZIERK (GDR), 4th Fritz RINGEL (Hamburg).

6th Meeting (July 28, 1957): 1st Hans JÄGER (Oldenburg), 2nd Hans ZIERK (GDR), 3rd Fritz RINGEL (Hamburg), 4th Nico VAN GORCUM (Holland).

7th Meeting (May 4, 1958): 1st Marian KAISER (Poland), 2nd Fritz RINGEL (Hamburg), 3rd Hans JÄGER (Oldenburg), 4th Ray HARRIS (England).

8th Meeting (September 14, 1958): 1st Hans ZIERK (GDR), 2nd Horst FEIST (Bremen), 3rd Manfred ZIERK (GDR), 4th Fritz RINGEL (Hamburg).

9th Meeting (May 3, 1959): 1st Ray HARRIS (England), 2nd Tommy SWEETMAN (England), 3rd Nico VAN GORCUM (Holland), 4th Hans JÄGER (Oldenburg).

10th Meeting (August 16, 1959): 1st Kurt W. PETERSEN (Denmark), 2nd Erik KASTEBO (Denmark), 3rd Fritz RINGEL (Hamburg), 4th Hans JÄGER (Oldenburg).

11th Meeting (May 8, 1960): 1st Kurt W. PETERSEN (Denmark), 2nd Erich LUTHER (Austria), 3rd Ray HARRIS (England), 4th Josef BÖSSNER (Austria).

12th Meeting (May 7, 1961): 1st Han VAN DER SLUIS (Holland), 2nd Erik KASTEBO (Denmark), 3rd H. P. BOISEN (Denmark), 4th Kalevi LAHTINEN (Finland).

13th Meeting (September 23, 1961): 1st Han VAN DER SLUIS (Holland), 2nd Alois FRACH (Oberhausen), 3rd Fritz RINGEL (Hamburg), 4th Kurt SCHWINGENSCHLÖGL (Austria).

14th Meeting (May 6, 1962): 1st Kalevi LAHTINEN (Finland), 2nd Bo HAKANSSON (Sweden), 3rd Han VAN DER SLUIS (Holland), 4th Alois FRACH (Oberhausen).

15th Meeting (April 21, 1963): 1. Poul WISSING (Denmark), 2nd Kurt W. PETERSEN (Denmark), 3rd Erik KASTEBO (Denmark), 4th Glyn CHANDLER (England).