Ekkehardt Teichreber

After the end of his active cycling career, Ekkehardt opened his shop "Radsport Teichreber" in Bremen-Grohn in 1978. Teichreber, who lived part time in Baunach at the time and worked for the bicycle importer Messingschlager, watched the son of a friend whizzing around the grounds on his sister's children's bike. He remembered a television report about BMX - a sport that did not yet exist in this country.

He saw an opportunity to get children interested in cycling and had BMX bikes delivered to Baunach via Messingschlager's Japanese supplier - and one of them to Bremen.

The enthusiasm was great: Three kids, including his son Andreas, shared the bike and tested it extensively on the wasteland near his shop, but the question of the track remained unanswered. This question was answered by another acquaintance of Ekkehardt's, who worked at the Bremen building authority and unofficially provided him not only with a few truckloads of earth, but also permission to use the "Am Oeversberg" site in Bremen-Grohn. The construction of what was probably Germany's first proper BMX track began here in 1979.

As demand increased, Ekkehardt sold more and more BMX bikes and parts from the newly established BMX department in the basement of his shop. BMX began to boom, the basement became a meeting place for countless children and young people and Ekkehardt became the most important man for BMX: in 1981, he organised the "Centurion Super Cup", probably the first BMX race in Germany, even before the BDR became involved in the sport. In the same year, he founded the "Vegesacker BMX Club" and thus created a BMX scene in Bremen from which numerous successful stars of the German BMX racing circus emerged. In the years that followed, he was involved in almost all areas of BMX sport: Ekkehardt was a race organiser, speaker and BMX dealer. He helped build BMX tracks throughout Germany and, together with Aris Donzelli, put together the team for Germany's first BMX magazine, for which he then worked as a photographer and later as editor.

With so many "firsts", it is only logical that Ekkehardt was the first member to be inducted into the German BMX Hall Of Fame in 2024. He was one of the few pillars that made BMX in Germany what it is today.