Claus Tuchscherer

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Claus Tuchscherer Nordic combination Ski jumping
Full name Claus-Jürgen Tuchscherer
nation Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic (until 1976) Austria
AustriaAustria 
birthday January 14, 1955
place of birth Rodewisch ,  German Democratic RepublicGermany Democratic Republic 1949German Democratic Republic 
Career
discipline Nordic combined
ski jumping
society SC Dynamo Klingenthal
SV Natters
status resigned
End of career 1982
Ski jumping world cup

Debut in the World Cup December 30, 1979
 

Claus-Jürgen Tuchscherer , from 1976 Klaus-Jürgen Tuchscherer (born January 14, 1955 in Rodewisch ) is a former German Nordic combined athlete and later Austrian ski jumper .

Life

The father is Gottfried Tuchscherer, who, as a footballer and winter sports enthusiast, helped to build up the SV unit Schönheide in his home town of Schönheide in the Ore Mountains.

Claus Tuchscherer came to the children's and youth sports school in Klingenthal at the age of thirteen and later belonged to the SC Dynamo Klingenthal , where he was trained by Gotthard Drummers . He reached 5th place in the Nordic Combined at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck . On the last day of the competition, he and his Austrian girlfriend Anna Steinbauer, who was 17 at the time, took a taxi to Bischofshofen . The Ministry for State Security then tried to convince him to return to the GDR. Tuchscherer returned to the GDR with his partner and officially applied to leave the country. This was also approved by the Ministry for State Security after a few weeks, which prompted Western media to speculate about sports espionage, which also came from some representatives of the ÖSV . Tuchscherer went back to Austria; he arrived on the evening of April 14th with his girlfriend in Styria, where Steinbauer was (is) based. It was the week before Easter and he said he wanted to spend Easter in Austria. He took on Austrian citizenship and switched from Nordic combined to ski jumping. After his move, he officially wrote his name as Klaus Tuchscherer .

He completed his first competition for Austria on December 30, 1976 at the start of the Four Hills Tournament 1976/77 in Oberstdorf . On January 6th, he jumped in Bischofshofen for the first time with 5th place in the top 10. He was only able to exceed this result on December 30th, 1978 in Oberstdorf, where he was fourth. He had previously caused a sensation at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 1978 when he lost his right ski in the first round of the large hill and fell on landing. In doing so, he drew a curvature of the spine. Nevertheless, he also jumped the second round, but was unable to achieve a result worth mentioning in the first because of the fall. Tuchscherer was part of the national team for the newly created ski jumping World Cup . In the first competition on December 30, 1979 in Oberstdorf, he was able to jump into the points with 15th place. On January 20, 1980, he was able to repeat the placement of Oberstdorf 1978 in Thunder Bay, Canada , and was again fourth. Two years followed with - with three exceptions - only placements in the top 20. After jumping on January 24, 1982 in Thunder Bay, where he was seventh again, he ended his active career as a jumper at the age of 26.

After finishing his job as a professional athlete, Tuchscherer worked as a social worker in the city administration of Innsbruck.

As part of the GDR compulsory doping system (“State Plan Theme 14.25”), Tuchscherer was also doped with Oral-Turinabol . The Ministry for State Security processed Tuchscherer in the "Central Operative Process (ZOV) sports traitor" and monitored Tuchscherer until the Stasi was dissolved in 1989. In an appeal he signed in 2014, Tuchscherer described himself as a doping victim.

World Cup placements

season space Points
1979/80 23. 49
1980/81 22nd 40
1981/82 46. 45

source

Information no. 135/76 about the whereabouts of the member of the Olympic team of the GDR, Klaus Tuchscherer, in the Federal Republic of Austria v. February 18, 1976, in: Siegfried Suckut (ed.): The GDR in view of the Stasi 1976. The secret reports to the SED leadership, Göttingen 2009, available online at [1] .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sigi Lützow: For freedom, without a net and a false bottom. December 23, 2012, accessed January 5, 2014 .
  2. ^ Event of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom , accessed on February 3, 2014
  3. ↑ a b c Thomas Purschke: "It became clear to me: You are just a piece of material for the bigwigs". In: The world . February 25, 2006, accessed January 5, 2014 .
  4. ↑ «Tuchscherer continues career» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 26, 1976, p. 7 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  5. ^ "GDR Olympian with bride disappeared from Austria" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 19, 1976, p. 3 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  6. ^ Escape from the GDR: With caution . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1976, p. 196 ( online ).
  7. ↑ «GDR ski star escaped the kidnapping suit» . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 16, 1976, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  8. ↑ "What does Klaus Tuchscherer really want in Austria?" In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 16, 1976, p. 16 ( Arbeiter-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  9. ↑ Thomas Purschke: Cold War at the Zeit-Online ski jump from March 5, 2017 , accessed on March 17, 2018
  10. ↑ heading "Sportmix", entitled "Question of the Day" in "Tiroler Tageszeitung" No. 8 of 11 January 1996, p. 29; POS .: last heading
  11. Jump up ↑ wounds that have not healed freepresse.de February 5, 2010
  12. ^ Call for "GDR doping victims demand resignation from Stasi informers Beilschmidt" from October 14, 2014 , accessed on March 17, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Cloth shearers, Claus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tuchscherer, Klaus; Tuchscherer, Klaus-Jürgen; Tuchscherer, Claus-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Nordic combined athlete and Austrian ski jumper
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Rodewisch