August Lehr

Lehr, who was a salesman by profession, started his career as an amateur cyclist on a penny-farthing or ordinary.

As a result of these successes Lehr received invitations to race all over Europe, that led him to a total of 260 career wins (according to other sources 227).

In 1909, the popular sports figure gave the start sign for the first Six Days of Berlin.

In 1921, Lehr suffered gastrointestinal bleeding during a rowing trip on the Mecklenburg Lake Plateau, as a result of which he died a few days later.

When in 1925 the Waldstadion was constructed next to a 400 Meter velodrome in Lehr's hometown Frankfurt, the brothers Adam and Fritz von Opel financed the erection of a bronze memorial (by Emil Hub) in his honour.