German Athletics Championships 1940

42nd German Athletics Championships

city	Berlin / 1 other location
Stadion	Olympic Stadium
Competitions	30 + 8 at other locations or dates
opening	August 10, 1940
Final day	August 11, 1940
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The 42nd German Athletics Championships took place on August 10 and 11, 1940, as in the previous year and the three following years in the Berlin Olympic Stadium. Sports events were held in Germany in the first years of World War II as unrestrictedly as possible, including these German Athletics Championships in 1940.

Some competitions did not take place as part of this event:

More battles (women: Pentathlon / men: five and decathlon ) - Weimar , 20 and 21 July
Marathon run (individual and team evaluation ) / 10,000 m track walking (individual evaluation) and
50 km walk (individual and team evaluation) - Berlin , August 18th

These were the first athletics championships during World War II , but three more followed. After the conquest of France , the National Socialists were at the height of their power. The civilian population in the German Reich was relatively little affected by the events of the war, especially with a view to the coming years. However, this did not apply to the Jewish people , who were already suffering greatly from the conditions.

The following overview summarizes the medalists of all competitions in 1940.

Medalists men

discipline	gold	power	silver	power	bronze	power
100 m	Harald Mellerowicz ( Air Force SV Berlin )	10.6 s	Manfred Kersch ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	10.8 s	Erich Borchmeyer ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	10.8 s
200 m	Willi Bönecke ( Air Force SV Berlin )	22.1 s	Jakob Scheuring ( Turnerbund Ottenau )	22.1 s	Kühnlein ( Post SV Berlin )	22.6 s
400 m	Cuno Wieland ( VfL Halle 1896 )	49.0 s	Erich Linnhoff ( Air Force SV Berlin )	49.3 s	Fritz Ahrens ( Air Force SV Berlin )	49.5 s
800 m	Rudolf Harbig ( Dresdner SC )	1: 51.6 min	Hans Brandscheit ( Air Force SV Berlin )	1: 54.6 min	Alfred Grau ( Air Force SV Berlin )	1: 55.7 min
1500 m	Ludwig Kaindl ( TS Jahn Munich )	3: 58.8 min	Dieter Giesen ( Air Force SV Berlin )	4: 00.4 min	Harry Mehlhose ( Luftwaffe SV Berlin )	4: 00.4 min
5000 m	Otto Eitel ( TSV Esslingen )	14: 45.2 min	Max Syring ( KTV Wittenberg )	14: 45.2 min	Hans Raff ( VfL Oberhausen )	14: 47.6 min
10,000 m	Anton Haushofer ( PSV Munich )	31: 29.4 min	Josef Legge ( VfL Bochum )	31: 50.6 min	Alfred Barth ( gymnastics club Göttingen )	31: 52.2 min
marathon	Erich Puch ( VfL Potsdamer Sportfreunde )	2:35:04 h	Ernst Weber ( Air Force SV Berlin )	2:35:25 h	Fritz Jahn ( BTSV 1850 Berlin )	2:41:33 h
Marathon , team competition	VfL Potsdamer Sportfreunde ( Erich Puch , Willi Trapp , Wilhelm Borns )	12 P (seats 1/8/9)	State Railroad and Post SG Stuttgart ( Hermann Helber , Fritz Helber , Bürklein)	19 P (seats 6/13/17)	BTSV 1850 Berlin ( Fritz Jahn , Jentzsch, Friedrich Blankenburg )	22 P (seats 3/18/28)
110 m hurdles	Ernst Becker ( Berlin SC )	15.4 s	Erwin Wegner ( Sports Association Berlin )	15.4 s	Hans Scheele ( DSC Berlin )	15.9 s
400 m hurdles	Max Mayr ( TSV 1860 Munich )	55.2 s	Heinz Brand ( DSC Berlin )	56.1 s	Karl-Heinz Wedlich ( TSV 1867 Leipzig )	57.2 s
3000 m obstacle	Rolf Seidenschnur ( Post SV Kiel )	9: 13.2 min	Hans Raff ( VfL Oberhausen )	9: 21.8 min	Franz Muschik ( SK Rapid Vienna )	9: 37.6 min
4 × 100 m relay	Berliner SC (G. Werner, Hans Schmidt , Ernst Becker , Günther Honolka )	43.0 s	Post SG Mannheim (Garrecht, Reisch, Karl Neckermann , Walter Feuerstein )	43.3 s	DSC Berlin (Rusitzka, Werner Eitel , H. Habermann, Gerhard Habermann )	44.1 s
4 × 400 m relay	Luftwaffe SV Berlin (Bodensieck, Alfred Grau , Fritz Ahrens , Erich Linnhoff )	3: 18.4 min	1. SV Jena (Peinel, Hippler, Rudolf Klupsch , Kurt Müller )	3: 21.6 min	Dresdner SC (Häring, Günter Baumann , Heß, Rudolf Harbig )	3: 22.4 min
3 × 1000 m relay	Luftwaffe SV Berlin ( Hans Brandscheit , Harry Mehlhose , Dieter Giesen )	7: 36.6 min	Hamburger SV (Kröger, Heinz Pidun , Herbert Behrend )	7: 41.4 min	Berliner SC ( Kurt Edel , Hartmut Fitzner , Willi Hermann )	7: 41.6 min
10,000 m of walking	Hermann Schmidt ( Police SV Hamburg )	46:27 min	Hermann Grittner ( Reichsbahn SV Cologne )	47:36 min	Josef Lipberger ( Infantry Regiment 335 Munich )	47:38 min
50 km street walking	Fritz Bleiweiß ( Berlin AK 07 )	4:47:43 h	Friedrich Prehn ( TSG Leipzig-Lindenau )	4:56:52 h	Erich Blau ( Brigade 35 Leipzig )	5:00:40 h
50 km street walking , team competition	Brigade 35 Leipzig ( Erich Blau , Herbert Nagel , Martin Köhler )	9 P (places 3/4/5)	Berlin AK 07 ( Fritz Bleiweiß , Jankowski, Horst Schulze )	17 P (seats 1/10/13)	Eintracht Braunschweig ( Gustav Peinemann , Hans Kandutsch , Karl Michel )	19 P (seats 6/8/11)
high jump	Hermann Nacke ( TSM Otto Schott Jena )	1.93 m	Horst Schlegel ( 1st SV Jena )	1.90 m	Ludwig Koppenwallner ( PSV Munich )	1.90 m
Pole vault	Rudolf Glötzner ( Turnerbund Weiden )	4.00 m	Josef Haunzwickel ( White-Red-White Vienna )	4.00 m	Hans Born ( SG Warsaw )	3.80 m
Long jump	Günther König ( Stettiner SC )	7.42 m	Gerhard Luther ( SC ATOS Berlin )	7.32 m	Rudolf Wikelski ( SV Allianz Berlin )	7.28 m
Triple jump	Fritz Gleim ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	14.89 m	Hans Mähnert ( VfL Halle 1896 )	14.53 m	Horst Vogt ( TSV 1867 Leipzig )	14.38 m
Shot put	Heinrich Trippe ( Police SV Berlin )	16.31 m	Hans Woellke ( Police SV Berlin )	15.78 m	Otto Luh ( Reichsbahn-SV Giessen )	14.90 m
Discus throw	Johann Wotapek ( Police SV Vienna )	48.37 m	Heinrich Trippe ( Police SV Berlin )	47.52 m	Ernst Lampert ( TSV 1860 Munich )	46.11 m
Hammer throw	Erwin Blask ( Berliner SC )	53.76 m	Sebastian Mayer ( TV Pasing )	52.75 m	Oskar Lutz ( Hüttenverein Dortmund )	52.52 m
Javelin throw	Karl-Heinz Berg ( Air Force SV Berlin )	67.73 m	Ferdinand Büsse ( DSC Berlin )	66.63 m	Herbert Loose ( LSV Halberstadt )	62.54 m
Pentathlon , 1934 W. i. Klamm .: 1985 value.	Rudolf Glötzner ( Turnerbund Weiden )	3879 P (3671 P)	Gerhard Luther ( SC ATOS Berlin )	3770 P (3612 P)	Gustav Weinkötz ( ASV Cologne )	3601 P (3411 P)
Decathlon , 1934 W. i. Klamm .: 1985 value.	Rudolf Glötzner ( Turnerbund Weiden )	6894 P (6580 P)	Edmund Harthaus ( SV Arnoldi 01 Gotha )	6301 P (6042 P)	Gerd Hilbrecht ( VfB Königsberg )	6234 P (6361 P)

Medalists women

discipline	gold	power	silver	power	bronze	power
100 m	Erika Biess ( SCC Berlin )	12.2 s	Grete Winkels ( ASV Cologne )	12.3 s	Maria Jöckel ( TV Bad Orb )	12.4 s
200 m	Grete Winkels ( ASV Cologne )	25.6 s	Therese Kurz ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	25.8 s	Elfriede Möller ( VfR Frankenthal )	26.2 s
80 m hurdles	Erika Biess ( SCC Berlin )	11.6 s	Lieselotte Peter ( Post SV Oppeln )	12.2 s	Luise Krüger ( Dresdner SC )	12.3 s
4 × 100 m relay	Hamburger SV (Kröger, Elfriede Köhnsen , Christa Loch , Grete Trenkner )	49.7 s	Eintracht Frankfurt (Sowa, Resi Kurz , Kroll, Josefine Kohl )	49.8 s	SCC Berlin ( Eva Dürre , Dora Voigt , Erika Biess , Felicitas Schmidt )	50.1 s
high jump	Gunda Friedrich ( TG Würzburg )	1.60 m	Feodora Countess zu Solms ( MSV Wünsdorf )	1.60 m	Elisabeth Gronen ( Düsseldorfer SC 99 )	1.54 m
Long jump	Erika Junghanns ( Friesen Naumburg )	5.70 m	Irmgard Praetz ( Germania Jahn Salzwedel )	5.46 m	Irmgard Kirchhoff ( Hesse-Prussia Kassel )	5.44 m
Shot put	Gisela Mauermayer ( TV Nymphenburg Munich )	13.20 m	Minka Janello ( SCC Berlin )	12.24 m	Helma Wessel ( Rote Erde Iserlohn )	12.16 m
Discus throw	Gisela Mauermayer ( TV Nymphenburg Munich )	45.94 m	Anna Hagemann ( Hesse-Prussia Kassel )	42.73 m	Hilde Sommer ( VfB Breslau )	40.87 m
Javelin throw	Lisa Gelius ( TS Jahn Munich )	44.34 m	Luise Krüger ( Dresdner SC )	42.17 m	Susanne Pastoors ( gymnastics community in Berlin )	41.94 m
Pentathlon , official value. i. Klamm .: 1980 value.	Lisa Gelius ( TS Jahn Munich )	332 P (3136 P)	Gerda Schwartau ( SV St. Georg 1895 Hamburg )	315 P (3099 P)	Luise Krüger ( Dresdner SC )	296 P (2941 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 1940 on Leichtathletik-dgld.de
German athletics best list women 1940 on Leichtathletik-dgld.de

References and comments

^ Wikipedia article 1940
^ Chronicle 1940 on the website chroniknet.de
↑ 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 1940

[2] Chronicle 1940 on the website chroniknet.de

[3] 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.

[4] 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.