Täve Schur

Gustav-Adolf Täve Schur, born on 23 February 1931 in Heyrothsberge, Saxony, is a former East German cyclist whose sporting career began with SC DHfK Leipzig. He took up cycling at the age of 19, was the first German to win the amateur competition of the World Cycling Championships, taking the amateur road race at the road world championships in 1958 and defending the title in 1959, and was the first East German to win the Peace Race, in 1955, winning it again in 1959. As a member of the United Team of Germany he won a bronze medal in the team time trial at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne and a silver medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. He was East German sports personality of the year nine times in a row from 1953 to 1961 and was voted the greatest East German sports personality of all time. He was a member of the East German Volkskammer from 1958 to 1990 and of the German Bundestag from 1998 to 2002, and the minor planet 38976 Taeve is named after him.