German Athletics Championships 1938

40th German Athletics Championships

city	Breslau / 2 other places
Competitions	32 + 6 at other venues
opening	July 28, 1938
Final day	July 30, 1938
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The 40th German Athletics Championships from July 28 to 30, 1938 were the last until the end of the war that did not take place in the Berlin Olympic Stadium . In 1938, Breslau was the venue.

For the third time after 1936 and 1937 Dora Ratjen won the high jump , but all championship titles were subsequently revoked because of his / her intersexuality .

Since the Aryan decree of 1933, it was hardly possible for Jewish athletes to take part in such championships, and this also applies to 1938. This is how the National Socialists put their stamp on sport.

There was only one change in the championship program: For the first time, the 10,000 m track walk was carried out.

Hermann Schmidt set a new German record in the 10,000 m track walk with 46: 15.8 minutes.

Not all competitions were held in Wroclaw , these were:

All-around competitions (women: pentathlon / men : pentathlon and decathlon ) - Stuttgart , July 16 and 17

10,000 m track walking (individual evaluation) / 50 km street walking (individual / team evaluation) - Erfurt , August 7th

The following overview summarizes the medalists of all competitions from 1938.

Medalists men

discipline	gold	power	silver	power	bronze	power
100 m	Gerd Hornberger ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	10.5 s	Manfred Kersch ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	10.6 s	Wilhelm Leichum ( DSC Berlin )	10.6 s
200 m	Jakob Scheuring ( Turnerbund Ottenau )	21.7 s	Martin Fischer ( DSC Berlin )	22.0 s	Gerd Hornberger ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	22.2 s
400 m	Erich Linnhoff ( Air Force SV Berlin )	47.6 s	Georg Müller ( SV Saar 05 Saarbrücken )	49.0 s	Hans Helm ( ASV Cologne )	49.0 s
800 m	Rudolf Harbig ( Dresdner SC )	1: 52.8 min	Franz Eichberger ( Vienna AC )	1: 54.9 min	Heinz Schumacher ( Düsseldorfer SC 99 )	1: 55.8 min
1500 m	Harry Mehlhose ( Luftwaffe SV Berlin )	3: 56.4 min	Fritz Schaumburg ( Police SV Berlin )	3: 56.4 min	Herbert Jakob ( MSV Torgau )	3: 56.8 min
5000 m	Max Syring ( KTV Wittenberg )	14: 50.0 min	Otto Eitel ( TSV Esslingen )	14: 50.2 min	Rolf Fellersmann ( SV St. Georg 1895 Hamburg )	15:01.4 min
10,000 m	Josef Berg ( ASV Cologne )	31: 31.0 min	Walter Schönrock ( KTV Wittenberg )	31: 31.6 min	Ernst Eberhardt ( SC Komet Berlin )	31: 33.0 min
marathon	Eugen Bertsch ( State Railroad and Post SG Stuttgart )	2:37:25 h	Erich Puch ( Sports Friends Potsdam )	2:39:03 h	Wilhelm Borgsen ( Police SV Berlin )	2:41:00 h
Marathon , team competition	Sportfreunde Potsdam ( Erich Puch , Hoppe, Trapp)	23 P (places 2/19/31)	Reichsbahn and Post SG Stuttgart ( Hermann Helber , Bürklein, Fritz Helber )	31 P (seats 9/21/35)	Post-SV Stephan Breslau (Maruschke, Franz Barsicke , Engel)	36 P (seats 18/22/33)
110 m hurdles	Karl Kumpmann ( ASV Cologne )	15.0 s	Erwin Wegner ( SS Sports Association Berlin )	15.0 s	Ferdinand Beschetznick ( DSC Berlin )	15.4 s
400 m hurdles	Georg Glaw ( SS Sports Association Berlin )	53.2 s	Friedrich-Wilhelm Hölling ( VfR Silesia 1897 Breslau )	53.6 s	Werner Klix ( Post-SG Berlin )	53.9 s
3000 m obstacle	Ludwig Kaindl ( TS Jahn Munich )	9: 25.8 min	Willi Heyn ( TSV 1860 Munich )	9: 29.0 min	Rolf Seidenschnur ( Kieler TV )	9: 30.0 min
4 × 100 m relay	DSC Berlin ( Wilhelm Leichum , Harald Mellerowicz , Martin Fischer , Schramm)	41.9 s	Eintracht Frankfurt ( Adolf Metzner , Albert Steinmetz , Gerd Hornberger , Ludwig Zahn )	42.3 s	Post SV Mannheim ( Heinrich Herrwerth , Günter Köster , Garrecht, Karl Neckermann )	42.5 s
4 × 400 m relay	Luftwaffe SV Berlin ( Gerhard Strasen , Hähnel, Hans Brandscheit , Erich Linnhoff )	3: 19.0 min	SCC Berlin ( Max Müller , Bruno Galuba , Wilhelm Single , Manfred Bues )	3: 20.6 min	VfR Schlesien 1897 Breslau (Koschel, Förster, Edmund Geißler , Helling)	3: 21.8 min
4 × 1500 m relay	Hamburg AC ( Hans König , Hein Kröger , Bertram Berberich , Werner Körting )	16: 28.2 min	TSV 1860 Munich ( Josef Eder , Kurt Ritter , Erich Ill , Willi Heyn )	16: 32.6 min	SC Victoria Hamburg (Vigas, Jotzo, Erich Patzwahl , Herbert Kemker )	16: 41.4 min
10,000 m of walking	Hermann Schmidt ( Police SV Hamburg )	46: 15.8 min DR	Rudolf Modes ( TSG Leipzig-Lindenau )	48: 49.5 min	William Schnitt ( SCC Berlin )	49: 35.0 min
50 km street walking	Herbert Dill ( Reichsbahn SV Berlin )	4:45:32 h	Arno Peters ( Berlin AK 07 )	4:56:40 h	Karl Hähnel ( Black and White Erfurt )	5:00:25 h
50 km street walking , team competition	Brigade 35 Leipzig ( Erich Blau , Herbert Nagel , Martin Köhler )	10 P (places 4/5/9)	Black and White Erfurt ( Karl Hähnel , Ewald, Witzleb)	20 P (places 3/16 /?)	Sports community Hamburg (Neurath, Lange, Joel)	21 P (places 6/12 /?)
high jump	Gustav Weinkötz ( ASV Cologne )	1.90 m	Hans Martens ( Kieler TV )	1.90 m	Karl-Heinz Langhoff ( Heinkel Rostock )	1.90 m
Pole vault	Josef Haunzwickel ( White-Red-White Vienna )	4.00 m	Wolfgang Hartmann ( Old TV Breslau )	3.90 m	Julius Müller ( TV cake )	3.90 m
Long jump	Luz Long ( Leipziger SC )	7.40 m	Hans Gottschalk ( SV Siemens Nuremberg )	7.10 m	Erich Biebach ( HSV Quedlinburg )	7.08 m
Triple jump	Karl Kotratschek ( White-Red-White Vienna )	14.82 m	Heinz Wöllner ( TSV 1867 Leipzig )	14.52 m	Anton Gottlieb ( VfL Landau )	14.36 m
Shot put	Hans Woellke ( Police SV Berlin )	15.63 m	Gerhard Stöck ( SCC Berlin )	15.31 m	Ernst Lampert ( TSV 1860 Munich )	15.18 m
Discus throw	Ernst Lampert ( TSV 1860 Munich )	48.78 m	Johann Wotapek ( Police SV Vienna )	46.61 m	Willy Schröder ( Police SV Berlin )	46.40 m
Hammer throw	Karl Hein ( SV St. Georg Hamburg )	56.49 m	Karl Storch ( gymnastics club Fulda )	55.52 m	Erwin Blask ( Berliner SC )	55.25 m
Javelin throw	Gerhard Stöck ( SCC Berlin )	69.50 m	Friedrich Gerdes ( Police SV Berlin )	64.57 m	Ferdinand Büsse ( DSC Berlin )	62.43 m
Pentathlon , 1934 W. i. Klamm .: 1985 value.	Hans-Heinrich Sievert ( Eimsbütteler TV )	4061 P (3781 P)	Günther Gehmert ( ASV Cologne )	3814 P (3596 P)	Alfred Herbel ( TFC Ludwigshafen )	3790 P (3615 P)
Decathlon , 1934 W. i. Klamm .: 1985 value.	Hans-Heinrich Sievert ( Eimsbütteler TV )	7467 P (6982 P)	Sebastian Streidl ( TSV 1860 Munich )	6367 P (6139 P)	Alfred Herbel ( TFC Ludwigshafen )	6234 P (6090 P)

Medalists women

discipline	gold	power	silver	power	bronze	power
100 m	Käthe Krauss ( Dresdner SC )	12.2 s	Emmy Albus ( SCC Berlin )	12.4 s	Josefine Kohl ( Post SV Frankfurt )	12.5 s
200 m	Käthe Krauss ( Dresdner SC )	24.7 s	Dora Voigt ( SCC Berlin )	25.4 s	Ida Ehrl ( TSV 1860 Munich )	25.7 s
80 m hurdles	Lisa Gelius ( TS Jahn Munich )	11.6 s	Anni Spitzweg ( MTV 1879 Munich )	11.9 s	Lieselotte Peter ( Post SV Oppeln )	11.9 s
4 × 100 m relay	SCC Berlin ( Anneliese Müller , Dora Voigt , Emmy Albus , Ilse Dörffeldt )	49.2 s	Eintracht Frankfurt (Kroll, Resi Kurz , Eckhardt, Bernhardt)	49.3 s	Dresdner SC ( Elfriede Toobe , Käthe Krauß , Luise Krüger , Ursula Kanditt )	49.8 s
high jump	Gunda Friedrich ( TG Würzburg )	1.57 m	Feodora Countess zu Solms ( MSV Wünsdorf )	1.53 m	Elisabeth Gronen ( Düsseldorfer SC 99 )	1.53 m
Long jump	Irmgard Praetz ( TV Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn Salzwedel )	5.68 m	Erika Junghanns ( Friesen Naumburg )	5.55 m	Gisela Mauermayer ( TV Nymphenburg Munich )	5.53 m
Shot put	Gisela Mauermayer ( TV Nymphenburg Munich )	13.62 m	Hermine Schröder b. Wüst ( TV 1883 Mundenheim )	12.95 m	Elfriede Kirchhoff ( VfB Detmold )	12.08 m
Discus throw	Gisela Mauermayer ( TV Nymphenburg Munich )	48.18 m	Hilde Sommer ( VfB Breslau )	41.15 m	Paula Mollenhauer ( Eimsbütteler TV )	41.14 m
Javelin throw	Lisa Gelius ( TS Jahn Munich )	44.00 m	Lydia Eberhardt ( TV Eislingen )	43.60 m	Erika Matthes ( SC Brandenburg )	42.53 m
Pentathlon , official value. i. Klamm .: 1980 value.	Gisela Mauermayer ( TV Nymphenburg Munich )	418 P (3597 P)	Lisa Gelius ( TS Jahn Munich )	399 P (3464 P)	Grete Busch ( Elberfelder TG )	336 P (3197 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 1938 on Leichtathletik-dgld.de
German athletics best list women 1938 on Leichtathletik-dgld.de
Bavarian Jewish sports clubs before 1938 by Wolfgang Roth

References and comments

↑ Forgotten records on the DOSB website
↑ 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] Forgotten records on the DOSB website

[2] 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.

[3] 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.