Perhaps the gentleman was referring to the 16th place finish of his teammate Stoepel in 1931. You said he is easily confused, so he could easily been off by one year.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
Houston,TX
> 16th place in the 1932 TdF??? Maurice Archambaud of France.
>
> But here are the German finishers from 1931-1933:
>
> 1931
> 8. Erich Metze
> 11. Oskar Thierbach
> 16. Kurt Stoepel
> 19. Ludwig Geyer
> 20. Herbert Sieronski
> 22. Hermann Buse (All)
> 23. Alfred Siegel (All)
>
> 1932
> 2. Kurt Stoepel
> 7. Oskar Thierbach
> 22. Ludwig Geyer
> 39. Herbert Sieronski
> 48. Karl Altenburger
> 56. Georg Umbenhauer
> 57. Rudolf Risch
>
> 1933
> 10. Kurt Stoepel
> 12. Ludwig Geyer
> 23. Oskar Thierbach
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Aldo Ross
> Middletown, Ohio
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: toni theilmeier <Toni.Theilmeier@t-online.de>
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 1:25 PM
> Subject: [CR]Tour de France 1932, surviving rider
>
>
> Hi,
> I am not into statistics, but there must surely be someone among the CR
> crowd who knows who came 16th in the 1932 TdF.
>
> I have by pure coincidence met an elderly gentleman (whose wife does not
> want him to be contacted because he is getting easily confused) in a place
> near to where I work who states vehemently that he was this 16th, and that
> he was in one team with Kurt Stoepel, the first German to do well in the
> Tour.
>
> First of course I would very much like to know whether I really shook the
> hand of a thirties TdF rider, and secondly he lost all his mementoes about
> his racing carreer in the war, their flat was bombed. So if anyone who has
> any pictures, newspaper cuttings or so about him would be so kind as to
help
> me, and consequentially the elderly gentleman, out with photocopies /
> Xeroxes or jpegs, I would be most grateful. Please do not wait too long,
he
> has less and less clear moments.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Toni Theilmeier, Osnabrueck, Germany.