German Athletics Championships 1934
36th German Athletics Championships | |
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city | Nuremberg / 3 other locations |
Competitions | 36 + 5 at other venues |
opening | July 27, 1934 |
Final day | July 29, 1934 |
timeline | |
← Cologne (M) + Weimar (F) 1933 | Berlin 1935 → |
The 36th German Athletics Championships were held in Nuremberg from July 27 to 29, 1934 .
After nine years with separate championships for women and men, there was again a joint event, which has been maintained until today. There was a change in the competition program: the 3,000-meter obstacle course , which was only resumed last year after a long break , was canceled again, but only for one year. For women, the throwing ball was finally phased out, and the throwing ball was introduced once .
Three competitions were outsourced and did not take place in Nuremberg :
- Forest run - Dresden , April 15th
- 20 km walk - Frankfurt am Main , August 12th
- 50 km walking - Munich , October 7th
A little more than a year after the National Socialists took over government , there were already significant changes in German sport. As with many other totalitarian states , many sports were promoted in a special way in order to demonstrate their own strength internally and externally, which also paid off in the form of significant increases in performance, especially in athletics. For example, German athletes won eight gold medals at the first European Athletics Championships in Turin . However, had racially influenced ideology of the Nazi Party until deep into the sport into it, with the result that Jewish athletes were allowed to take part in general events and championships any more. In 1933, for example, the so-called Aryan Decree with corresponding regulations existed.
The most successful athlete in the championships was Gisela Mauermayer with four championship titles. In the men's category, Max Syring was the most successful participant with three titles.
Gustav Wegner set a new German record in the pole vault with 4.11 m.
It was noteworthy that all three men's relay competitions were won by the defending club.
The following overview summarizes the medal winners of all competitions from 1934.
Medalists men
Medalists women
literature
- Fritz Steinmetz: 75 years of the German Athletics Championships. Berlin 1973.
- Hajo Bernett: The Jewish gymnastics and sports movement as an expression of the self-discovery and self-assertion of German Jewry. In: Arnold Paucker (Ed.): The Jews in National Socialist Germany. Tübingen 1986, pp. 222-237.
Web links
- German athletics champions (until 2003) on sport-komplett.de
- German athletics best list men 1934 on Leichtathletik-dgld.de
- German athletics best list women 1934 on Leichtathletik-dgld.de
- Wikipedia article Jewish sport in Nazi Germany
- The 'Aryanization' of German sport under National Socialism, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Seminar for Medieval and Modern History , website gwdg.de
References and comments
- ↑ Wikipedia article Sports Association , v. a. Section 1.2 Aryan Decree / Co-ordination 1933
- ↑ 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.