German Athletics Championships 1931

33rd German Athletics Championships
city	Berlin (men) + Magdeburg (women) / 4 other places
Competitions	35 + 5 in other places
opening	August 1, 1931
Final day	August 2, 1931
timeline
← Berlin (M) / Lennep (F) 1930	Hanover (M) / Berlin (F) 1932 →

The 33rd German Athletics Championships took place on August 1st and 2nd, 1931. The women's competitions were held in Magdeburg , the men's competitions, as in the previous year, in Berlin .

There were additional offers for men in the competition program:

• 3 × 1000 m relay - This relay distance had not been held for four years and was canceled again in the following seven years.
• Triple jump
• Stone throwing
• Sling ball throw

The latter three disciplines were each held for the first time.

Some competitions have been outsourced:

• Forest run : Hanover , April 26th
• 4 × 1500 m relay : Braunschweig , August 16
• 3 × 1000 m relay : Bitterfeld , September 20
• 50 km walking : Munich , October 4th - the only walking competition in the championship program

There were three new German records:

• Decathlon - Hans-Heinrich Sievert 7874.605 P according to the then valid rating from 1912, converted according to the table from 1985 that is valid today: 6492 P
• 200-meter run - Marie Dollinger 25.2 s
• Discus throw - Paula Mollenhauer 39.61 m

The following overview summarizes the medal winners of all competitions from 1931.

Medalists men

discipline	gold	power	silver	power	bronze	power
100 m	Arthur Jonath ( TuS Bochum 08 )	10.8 s	Friedrich Hendrix ( Black-Red Aachen )	10.9 s	Ernst Geerling ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	11.0 s
200 m	Arthur Jonath ( TuS Bochum 08 )	22.2 s	Helmut Körnig ( SCC Berlin )	22.2 s	Ernst Geerling ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	22.4 s
400 m	Adolf Metzner ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	48.4 s	Joachim Büchner ( VfB Leipzig )	48.8 s	Heinz Bergmann ( TuS Duisburg 48/99 )	49.2 s
800 m	Otto Peltzer ( SC Prussia Stettin )	1: 58.9 min	Max Danz ( SCC Berlin )	1: 59.4 min	Friedrich Kaufmann ( DHC Hanover )	1: 59.9 min
1500 m	Helmuth Krause ( SC Teutonia 99 Berlin )	3: 57.6 min	Hans Wichmann ( SCC Berlin )	3: 57.6 min	Fritz Schilgen ( ASC Darmstadt )	3: 59.2 min
5000 m	Fritz Schaumburg ( Police SV Oberhausen )	15:04.7 min	Max Syring ( KTV Wittenberg )	15: 13.2 min	Otto Petri ( DSV Hannover 1878 )	15: 17.9 min
10,000 m	Otto Petri ( DSV Hannover 1878 )	31: 59.2 min	Erich Kraft ( VfB Leipzig )	32: 06.6 min	Heinrich Mollitor ( Police SV Berlin )	32: 23.2 min
marathon	Paul de Bruyn ( Berlin SC )	2: 47: 19.3 h	Erich Geisler ( SCC Berlin )	2: 48: 37.2 h	Franz Wanderer ( VfL Potsdamer Sportfreunde )	2: 49: 09.3 h
110 m hurdles	Ferdinand Beschetznick ( DSC Berlin )	15.0 s	Erwin Wegner ( TSV Schöneberg Berlin )	15.7 s	Heinrich Troßbach ( Berlin SC )	15.8 s
400 m hurdles	Willi Schumann ( DSC Berlin )	56.1 s	Willi Kürten ( Düsseldorfer SC 99 )	56.2 s	Devert Klar ( Police SV Berlin )	57.3 s
4 × 100 m relay	Eintracht Frankfurt ( Eugen Eldracher , Willi Welscher , Max Mährlein , Ernst Geerling )	41.6 s	SCC Berlin ( Helmut Körnig , Grosser, Schliersch, Hermann Schlöske )	41.9 s	TuS Bochum 08 (Mense, Schumacher, Erich Borchmeyer , Arthur Jonath )	42.0 s
4 × 400 m relay	Hamburger SV (Henne, Mangolt von Eberstein , Egon Schein , Herbert Benecke )	3: 20.6 min	TSV Zehlendorf 88 Berlin ( Horst Asseyer , Schwartner, Bartens, Kurt Katzorke )	3: 21.1 min	Kölner BC 01 ( Matz Weber , Eugen Dielefeld , Hans Nöller , Josef Kremer )	3: 21.4 min
3 × 1000 m relay	SCC Berlin ( Herbert Gottschalk , Hans Wichmann , Max Danz )	7: 48.1 min	Police School Brandenburg (Möller, Bukh, Kurt Abraham )	7: 51.7 min	SC Victoria Hamburg ( Hans Herich , Karl Dahlmann , Erich Patzwahl )	7: 58.9 min
4 × 1500 m relay	SCC Berlin ( Herbert Gottschalk , Karl Otto , Horst Bansemer , Hans Wichmann )	16: 30.6 min	DSV 1878 Hanover ( Bruno Lange , Siegfried Dieckmann , Otto Petri , Wilhelm Boltze )	16: 33.2 min	Stuttgarter Kickers ( Wolfgang Dessecker , Alwin Paul , Erich Arnold , Leopold Rath )	17:02.2 min
50 km of walking	Franz Reichel ( SC Bajuwaren Munich )	4:40:45 h	Karl Hähnel ( Black and White Erfurt )	4:49:52 h	Paul Sievert ( Reichsbahn-SV Berlin )	4:57:17 h
50 km walking , team competition	SCC Berlin ( Carl Brockmann , William Schnitt , Fietz)	10 P (places 4/5/8)	SC Bajuwaren Munich ( Franz Reichel , Fasold, Siegel)	15 P (seats 1/9/11)	Duisburger SV 1900 (Loges, Bader, Stapper)	20 P (places 6/10/14)
high jump	Fritz Köpke ( SC Prussia Stettin )	1.86 m	Werner Bornhöfft ( ATV Limbach )	1.86 m	Otto Betz ( DSC Berlin )	1.86 m
Pole vault	Gustav Wegner ( VfL Halle 1896 )	4.04 m	Julius Müller ( TG Rottenburg )	3.80 m	Siegfried Schulz ( Berlin Gymnastics Association )	3.80 m
Long jump	Kurt Mölle ( Cologne BC 01 )	7.47 m	Erich Köchermann ( SC Victoria Hamburg )	7.44 m	Erich Biebach ( Police SV Halle )	7.17 m
Triple jump	Willi Drechsel ( ATV Thalheim )	13.72 m	Wilhelm Sälzer ( Sportfreunde Hamm / Sieg )	13.60 m	Franz Ebner ( 1.FC Schweinfurt 05 )	13.38 m
Shot put	Emil Hirschfeld ( SV Hindenburg Allenstein )	15.56 m	Willi Schneider ( SC Opel Rüsselsheim )	14.23 m	Alfred Lingnau ( TuS Eintracht Dortmund )	14.11 m
Stone throwing	Alfred Lingnau ( TuS Eintracht Dortmund )	10.75 m	Sebastian Lorber ( MTV Bamberg )	9.82 m	Erich Reymann ( MSV Wünsdorf )	9.73 m
Discus throw	Hans Hoffmeister ( SC Münster 08 )	45.48 m	Hans-Heinrich Sievert ( Eimsbütteler TV )	45.22 m	Ernst Heynen ( TV Westerstede )	41.69 m
Hammer throw	Josef Mang ( SSV Jahn Regensburg )	43.86 m	Josef Steinberger ( SSV Jahn Regensburg )	43.85 m	Otto Grimm ( Prussia Paderborn )	42.31 m
Javelin throw	Bruno Mäser ( SpVgg ASCO Königsberg )	63.65 m	Erich Dinkler ( TV 78 Heidelberg )	61.62 m	Gottfried Weimann ( SC Wacker Leipzig )	61.34 m
Sling ball throw	Friedrich Wegener ( Kieler TV )	68.53 m	Erich Reymann ( MSV Wünsdorf )	67.59 m	Ernst Heynen ( TV Westerstede )	67.21 m
Decathlon , 1912 W. i. Klamm .: 1985 value.	Hans-Heinrich Sievert ( Eimsbütteler TV )	7874.605 P DR / (6575 P)	Hans Fritsch ( SV Darkehmen )	7636.375 P (6392 P)	Hermann Lemperle ( SC Köln-Marienberg )	7097,280 P (6072 P)
Forest run - approx. 10,000 m	Otto Kohn ( SCC Berlin )	34: 16.2 min	Heinrich Mollitor ( Police SV Berlin )	34: 37.8 min	Hermann Helber ( Reichsbahn SV Stuttgart )	35: 00.2 min
Forest run , team competition	Police SV Berlin ( Heinrich Mollitor , Friedrich Schaumburg , Oskar Behnke )	16 P (places 2/8/13)	Police SV Hamburg ( Willi Dreckmann , Wilhelm Husen , Ernst Fahrenkrug )	26 P (seats 5/15/16)	DSV Hannover 1878 ( Otto Petri , Wilhelm Boltze , Siegfried Dieckmann )	? P (places 7/10/27)

Medalists women

discipline	gold	power	silver	power	bronze	power
100 m	Leni Thymm ( ATV Leipzig 1845 )	12.0 s	Rosa Kellner ( TSV 1860 Munich )	12.2 s	Käthe Krauss ( Dresdner SC )	12.2 s
200 m	Marie Dollinger ( 1. FC Nuremberg )	25.2 s DR	Käthe Krauss ( Dresdner SC )	25.5 s	Detta Lorenz born Lutz ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	25.6 s
800 m	Marie Dollinger ( 1. FC Nuremberg )	2: 16.8 min	Lina Radke b. Batschauer ( VfB Breslau )	2: 18.8 min	Ella Bonacker ( SpVgg ASCO Königsberg )	2: 27.6 min
80 m hurdles	Gerda Pirch ( SCC Berlin )	12.3 s	Emmi Haux ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	12.3 s	Ursula Birkholz ( DSC Breslau )	12.3 s
4 × 100 m relay	Eintracht Frankfurt ( Emmi Haux , Tilly Fleischer , Detta Lorenz née Lutz , Bernhardt)	50.0 s	TSV 1860 Munich ( Luise Holzer , Margit Hample , Agathe Karrer , Rosa Kellner )	50.2 s	Dresdner SC (Schmiedel, Käthe Krauss , Grande, Marianne Stryk )	50.5 s
high jump	Selma Grieme ( Sportfreunde Bremen )	1.50 m	Inge Braumüller ( DOSC Berlin )	1.45 m	Hildegard Hach ( SC Erfurt )	1.45 m
Long jump	Felicitas Schlarp ( Post SV Cologne )	5.61 m	Hertha Wolff ( TB Wandsbek Hamburg )	5.52 m	Erna Steinberg ( SC Brandenburg Berlin )	5.47 m
Shot put	Grete Heublein ( SuS Barmen )	12.70 m	Hermine Wüst ( TV 1883 Mundenheim )	12.37 m	Rosel Windsheimer ( TG Würzburg )	12.21 m
Discus throw	Paula Mollenhauer ( SC Victoria Hamburg )	39.61 m DR	Grete Heublein ( SuS Barmen )	38.82 m	Milly Reuter ( SC Frankfurt 1880 )	37.83 m
Javelin throw	Ellen Braumüller ( DOSC Berlin )	39.85 m	Elisabeth Schumann ( black and white food )	39.77 m	Tilly Fleischer ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	38.56 m
Bat throw	Uebler ( TV Südende Berlin )	70.00 m	Bachner ( TV Frankfurt / Oder 1860 )	68.23 m	Marie-Luise Richters ( TV Wischhafen )	67.72 m
Pentathlon , official value. i. Klamm .: 1980 value.	Ellen Braumüller ( DOSC Berlin )	395 P (3127 P)	Gisela Mauermayer ( TV Munich-Neuhausen )	330 P (2980 P)	Selma Grieme ( Sportfreunde Bremen )	307 P (2929 P)

literature

• Fritz Steinmetz: 75 years of the German Athletics Championships. Berlin 1973.

Web links

• German athletics champions (until 2003) on sport-komplett.de
• German athletics best list men 1931 on Leichtathletik-dgld.de
• German athletics best list women 1931 on Leichtathletik-dgld.de
• Photo of the German champion 100 m run 1931 Leni Thymm, later married Junker on akg-images.de

References and comments

1. ↑ Development of the German records on Leichtathletik.de (PDF)
2. ↑ The pentathlon was scored according to an older German women's pentathlon table, disciplines: Day 1 - shot put, long jump / day 2 - 100 m, high jump, javelin throw.