German Athletics Championships 1937

39th German Athletics Championships

city	Berlin / 2 other locations
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Competitions	28 + 9 at other venues
opening	July 24, 1937
Final day	July 25, 1937
timeline
← Berlin 1936	Breslau 1938 →

The 39th German Athletics Championships took place on July 24th and 25th, 1937 in the Berlin Olympic Stadium.

There were two changes to the championship program:

For the first time there was a championship in the so-called "German Pentathlon", which was nothing more than the first day of the decathlon , this year after the 1934 rating.
The forest run was canceled and only offered again at the second championships after the Second World War in 1947.

Various championship competitions have been outsourced.

Frankfurt , July 10th and 11th:
- all relay competitions ,
- More battles (women: Pentathlon / men: five and decathlon )
Bonn , July 25th: 50 km street walking .

After the sharp reductions in the two previous years, the women's competition program again featured the disciplines that were customary at the time.

Jewish athletes had it all the more difficult again after the relaxation of the conditions in the Olympic year 1936 and were not allowed to participate due to the Aryan Decree of 1933 and the Nuremberg Laws of 1935.

Dora Ratjen also won the high jump in 1937 , but the championship title was subsequently revoked because of her / his intersexuality .

The level of performance was favored by the National Socialists ' sponsorship of sport in order to showcase one's own strengths, and by international standards it remained high. Two new German records were set:

800 m - Rudolf Harbig 1: 50.9 min
Long jump - Käthe Krauß 5.96 m

The following overview summarizes the medalists of all competitions from 1937.

Medalists men

discipline	gold	power	silver	power	bronze	power
100 m	Erich Borchmeyer ( Stuttgarter Kickers )	10.8 s	Gerd Hornberger ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	10.8 s	Karl Neckermann ( Post SV Mannheim )	10.8 s
200 m	Gerd Hornberger ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	21.6 s	Karl Neckermann ( Post SV Mannheim )	21.9 s	Jakob Scheuring ( Turnerbund Ottenau )	22.0 s
400 m	Erich Linnhoff ( SCC Berlin )	49.0 s	Ferdy Kisters ( Post SV Düsseldorf )	49.1 s	Peter Rössler ( Sports Association Berlin )	49.1 s
800 m	Rudolf Harbig ( Dresdner SC )	1: 50.9 min DR	Ewald Mertens ( KTV Wittenberg )	1: 54.9 min	Emil Lang ( TSV 1860 Munich )	1: 55.3 min
1500 m	Fritz Schaumburg ( Police SV Berlin )	3: 54.4 min	Edmund Stadler ( Freiburg FC )	3: 55.8 min	Werner Stieglitz ( Black and White Barmen )	3: 58.8 min
5000 m	Max Syring ( KTV Wittenberg )	14: 53.0 min	Ernst Eberhardt ( SC Komet Berlin )	14: 56.4 min	Hans Raff ( VfL Oberhausen )	14: 59.2 min
10,000 m	Walter Schönrock ( KTV Wittenberg )	31: 49.4 min	Walter Lieck ( SV Telefunken Berlin )	31: 54.8 min	Heinrich Hönninger ( 1. FC Nuremberg )	31: 59.6 min
marathon	Werner Gnädig ( SC Ullstein Berlin )	2: 46: 44.2 h	Hermann Helber ( State Railroad and Post SG Stuttgart )	2: 52: 55.6 h	Max Wiedemann ( TSV 1860 Munich )	2: 55: 37.0 h
Marathon , team competition	TSV 1860 Munich ( Max Wiedemann , Wilhelm Zoller , Willi Wolfrum )	25 P (seats 3/12/14)	Police SV Berlin ( Heinrich Brauch , Wilhelm Borgsen , Gerhardt)	36 P (seats 11/13/18)	BTSV 1850 Berlin (Jentzsch, Bruno Eisenhardt , Friedrich Blankenburg )	53 P (seats 10/17/51)
110 m hurdles	Erwin Wegner ( Sports Association Berlin )	14.9 s	Karl Kumpmann ( ASV Cologne )	15.1 s	Georg Glaw ( VfL Halle 1896 )	15.2 s
400 m hurdles	Friedrich-Wilhelm Hölling ( MSV Wünsdorf )	53.3 s	Hans Scheele ( Hamburger SV )	53.6 s	Reinhold Boehm ( SV Siemens Nuremberg )	53.8 s
3000 m obstacle	Alfred Dompert ( Stuttgart Kickers )	9: 18.0 min	Ludwig Kaindl ( SV Siemens Nuremberg )	9: 28.2 min	Karl Otto ( SV Allianz Berlin )	9: 31.2 min
4 × 100 m relay	Eintracht Frankfurt ( Adolf Metzner , Willi Welscher , Gerd Hornberger , Ernst Geerling )	42.6 s	Stuttgarter Kickers ( Erich Koch , Peter Robens , Bert Sumser , Erich Borchmeyer )	42.8 s	Berlin Gymnastics Association ( Ernst Becker , Löwe, Martin Fischer , Körber)	43.1 s
4 × 400 m relay	Stuttgarter Kickers ( Manfred Kramer , Bert Sumser , Walter Tripps , Peter Robens )	3: 19.6 min	SCC Berlin ( Bruno Galuba , Wilhelm Single , Manfred Bues , Erich Linnhoff ) / BSG Allianz Berlin ( Heinz Matthus , Fritsch, Brache, Helmut Hamann )	3: 20.0 min
4 × 1500 m relay	KTV Wittenberg ( Walter Schönrock , Ewald Mertens , Karl-Heinz Becker , Max Syring )	16: 16.0 min	TSV 1860 Munich ( Georg Ostertag , Josef Eder , Emil Lang , Kurt Ritter )	16: 18.4 min	SV Darmstadt 98 ( Georg Creter , Ludwig Held , Arthur Blind , Ludwig Löwel )	16: 23.6 min
50 km street walking	Friedrich Prehn ( TSG Leipzig-Lindenau )	4: 34: 21.2 h	Fritz Bleiweiß ( Berlin AK )	4: 38: 10.0 h	Herbert Dill ( Reichsbahn SV Berlin )	4: 42: 37.0 h
50 km street walking , team competition	Brigade 35 Leipzig ( Friedrich Prehn , Kirsch, Martin Köhler )	Places 1/4/5	Reichsbahn SV Berlin ( Herbert Dill , Karl Köppen , Jostag)	Seats 3/6/9	only 2 teams in the rating
high jump	Gustav Weinkötz ( ASV Cologne )	1.93 m	Kurt Augustin ( SV Allianz Berlin )	1.90 m	Günther Gehmert ( DSC Berlin )	1.85 m
Pole vault	Julius Müller ( TV cake )	4.00 m	Karl Sutter ( Freiburg FC )	3.90 m	Wolfgang Hartmann ( Old TV Breslau )	3.90 m
Long jump	Luz Long ( Leipziger SC )	7.70 m	Bernhard Assmus ( ASC Leipzig )	7.47 m	Carl Grampp ( Berlin SC )	7.28 m
Triple jump	Walter Ziebe ( LV Dessau )	14.92 m	Heinz Wöllner ( ASC Leipzig )	14.51 m	Paul Witte ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	14.23 m
Shot put	Hans Woellke ( Police SV Berlin )	15.82 m	Heinrich Trippe ( Police SV Düsseldorf )	14.92 m	Willi Konrad ( TSV 1860 Munich )	14.85 m
Discus throw	Willy Schröder ( Police SV Berlin )	50.44 m	Gerhard Hilbrecht ( VfB Koenigsberg )	48.37 m	Ernst Lampert ( TSV 1860 Munich )	47.49 m
Hammer throw	Karl Hein ( SV St. Georg Hamburg )	54.71 m	Erwin Blask ( Berliner SC )	54.66 m	Karl Wolf ( ASV Germania Karlsruhe )	50.67 m
Javelin throw	Hans Laqua ( VfB Breslau )	72.24 m	Gerhard Stöck ( SCC Berlin )	64.12 m	Gottfried Weimann ( KTV Wittenberg )	61.61 m
Pentathlon , 1934 W. i. Klamm .: 1985 value.	Fritz Müller ( MTV Gifhorn )	3840 P (3660 P)	Gustav Weinkötz ( ASV Cologne )	3686 P (3482 P)	Günther Gehmert ( DSC Berlin )	3668 P (3505 P)
Decathlon , 1934 W. i. Klamm .: 1985 value.	Fritz Müller ( MTV Gifhorn )	6961 P (6694 P)	Gerd Hilbrecht ( VfB Königsberg )	6737 P (6416 P)	Günther Gehmert ( DSC Berlin )	6225 P (6066 P)

Medalists women

discipline	gold	power	silver	power	bronze	power
100 m	Käthe Krauss ( Dresdner SC )	11.9 s	Ilse Dörffeldt ( SCC Berlin )	12.3 s	Grete Winkels ( SSV Cologne )	12.3 s
200 m	Maria Willenbacher ( TG Schwenningen )	25.6 s	Resi Kurz ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	25.7 s	Grete Kuhlmann ( Hamburger SV )	25.7 s
80 m hurdles	Siegfriede Dempe ( SC Weimar )	11.7 s	Anni Steuer ( TuS Duisburg 48/99 )	11.8 s	Annemarie Westphal ( Eimsbütteler TV )	12.0 s
4 × 100 m relay	SCC Berlin ( Erika Biess , Ilse Dörffeldt , Emmy Albus , Anneliese Müller )	49.2 s	Dresdner SC ( Elfriede Toobe , Ursula Kanditt , Luise Krüger , Käthe Krauß )	49.2 s	TS Jahn Munich (Sedlmeyer, Lisa Gelius , Sophie Hagg , Marianne Hummert )	49.2 s
high jump	Elfriede Kaun ( Kiel TV )	1.57 m	Luise Lockemann ( VfB Jena )	1.50 m	Gerda Bock ( TK Hanover )	1.50 m
Long jump	Käthe Krauss ( Dresdner SC )	5.96 m DR	Hilde Franke ( NSTV Breslau )	5.71 m	Traute Göppner ( LAVg. Danzig )	5.69 m
Shot put	Gisela Mauermayer ( TV Nymphenburg Munich )	12.88 m	Hermine Schröder b. Wüst ( TV 1883 Mundenheim )	12.68 m	Marie-Elise Richters ( Hamburg gymnastics club from 1816 )	12.46 m
Discus throw	Gisela Mauermayer ( TV Nymphenburg Munich )	43.24 m	Elfriede Kirchhoff ( VfB Detmold )	39.44 m	Anna Hagemann ( Hesse-Prussia Kassel )	38.40 m
Javelin throw	Lisa Gelius ( TS Jahn Munich )	44.56 m	Luise Krüger ( Dresdner SC )	42.92 m	Lydia Eberhardt ( TV Eislingen )	42.08 m
Pentathlon , official value. i. Klamm .: 1980 value.	Käthe Krauss ( Dresdner SC )	352 P (3381 P)	Lisa Gelius ( TS Jahn Munich )	351 P (3197 P)	Grete Busch ( Women's SC Wuppertal )	332 P (3125 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 1937 on Leichtathletik-dgld.de
German athletics best list women 1937 on Leichtathletik-dgld.de

References and comments

↑ Wikipedia article Sports Association , v. a. Section 1.2 Aryan Decree / Co-ordination 1933
↑ Berno Bahro, Sport and its role in the National Socialist elite SS (PDF)
↑ Development of the German Records (PDF; 50 kB)
↑ The disciplines from the 1st day of the decathlon (so-called "German pentathlon") were rated: 100 m, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400 m.
↑ 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.

[1] Wikipedia article Sports Association , v. a. Section 1.2 Aryan Decree / Co-ordination 1933

[2] Berno Bahro, Sport and its role in the National Socialist elite SS (PDF)

[3] Development of the German Records (PDF; 50 kB)

[4] The disciplines from the 1st day of the decathlon (so-called "German pentathlon") were rated: 100 m, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400 m.

[5] 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.