German Athletics Championships 1948

48th German Athletics Championships
city	Nuremberg / 2 other locations
Stadion	Municipal stadium
Competitions	30 + 9 at other venues
opening	August 14, 1948
Final day	August 15, 1948
timeline
← Cologne 1947	Bremen 1949 →

The 48th German Athletics Championships were held on August 14th and 15th, 1948 in the municipal stadium in Nuremberg . The division of Germany had already progressed so far that it was only about the championships of the three western occupation zones . The Soviet occupation zone had its own championship competition. With a few exceptions, all competitions were held in Nuremberg as part of the event. In contrast to the men's decathlon, the women's 200-meter run, as in 1946 and 1947, was not on the program again. As before , the marathon was shortened this year to a distance of 30 km.

The following championship competitions took place at different locations on different dates:

• It started with the forest run (men), which took place in Fellbach near Stuttgart on April 18th on a route length with individual and team evaluation.
• In September, the remaining disciplines were held at an event in Hamburg :
  • the marathon shortened to 30 km (September 19)
  • the 25km street walking (September 19)
  • the men's pentathlon (September 19)
  • the all-round competitions (women: pentathlon ) / (men: and decathlon ), each with individual ratings (19/20 September).

The following overviews summarize the medal winners. A more detailed overview with the first six in each of the individual disciplines can be found under the link German Athletics Championships 1948 / Results .

Medalists men

discipline	gold	power	silver	power	bronze	power
100 m	Heinz Fischer ( Prussia Krefeld )	10.7 s	Konrad Wittekindt ( VfL 1860 Marburg )	10.7 s	Günther Pesch ( Hammer SpVg. 03/04 )	10.8 s
200 m	Leo Lickes (Prussia Krefeld)	22.2 s	Werner Zandt ( Stuttgart Kickers )	22.6 s	Werner Wigner ( ASV Zirndorf )	22.9 s
400 m	Gerhard Audorf ( Berlin SC )	49.5 s	Hubert Huppertz ( RSV Ahrweiler )	49.7 s	Hans Geister ( SV Black and White Westende Hamborn )	49.7 s
800 m	Heinz Ulzheimer ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	1: 51.8 min	Karl Kluge ( Werder Bremen )	1: 54.0 min	Günther Steines ( 1st SC Mayen )	1: 54.0 min
1500 m	Heinz Westerteicher ( Black and White Radevormwald )	4: 01.4 min	Willi Maus ( Turner Club Gelsenkirchen 1874 )	4: 01.8 min	Hermann Hammersen ( Blue-White Osnabrück )	4: 02.0 min
5000 m	Ludwig Warnemünde ( SC Victoria Hamburg )	15:04.4 min	Hermann Eberlein ( TSV 1860 Munich )	15: 04.6 min	Otto Eitel ( TSV Esslingen )	15: 05.4 min
10,000 m	Otto Eitel ( TSV Esslingen )	31: 49.0 min	Edmund Nadolny ( Rot-Weiß Oberhausen )	32: 19.8 min	Willi Holtkamp ( Red-White Koblenz )	32: 41.0 min
Marathon - 30 km	Josef Legge ( VfL Bochum )	1: 46: 50.2 h	Wilhelm Borns ( FSV Frankfurt )	1: 47: 16.4 h	Georg Goldemund ( TSV 1860 Munich )	1: 48: 51.4 h
Marathon - 30 km, team classification	FSV Frankfurt ( Wilhelm Borns , Egon Pfarr , Hans Engel )	14 P (places 2/8/13)	Reichsbahn SV Stuttgart ( Willi Bürklein , Karl Meyer , Rummel)	29 P (places 9/10/27)	DLC Aachen ( Willy Peters , Kriescher, Aretz)	34 P (places 4/20/32)
110 m hurdles	Ernst Becker ( Werder Bremen )	15.0 s	Hans Zepernick ( Blue-White Osnabrück )	15.4 s	Edmund Hidas-Hikisch ( SV Wasserburg )	15.4 s
400 m hurdles	Edmund Hidas-Hikisch ( SV Wasserburg )	55.6 s	Karl Kohlhoff ( Holstein Kiel )	55.6 s	Heinz Bockelbrinck ( OSV Hörde )	57.1 s
3000 m obstacle	Rolf Seidenschnur ( Rendsburger TSV )	9: 44.4 min	Willi Maus ( Turner Club Gelsenkirchen 1874 )	9: 45.0 min	Franz Schlittmann ( TSV 1860 Munich )	10: 10.6 min
4 × 100 m relay	Prussia Krefeld ( Paul Schochow , Leo Lickes , Wilhelm Bauer , Heinz Fischer )	42.5 s	SV St. Georg 1895 Hamburg ( Walter Lege , Steffen, Rehders, Lindemann)	43.0 s	TSV 1860 Munich ( Hans Hertlein , Gerhard Luther , Hans Rümping , Rudolf Königl )	43.4 s
4 × 400 m relay	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen ( Walter Krapoth , August Kirsch , Karl-Heinz Surray , Karl-Friedrich Rückebeil )	3: 23.0 min	Holstein Kiel (Sommer, Herbert Sonntag , Hoffmeister, Karl Kohlhoff )	3: 24.6 min	1. FC Nürnberg ( Georg Wagner , Leopold Färber , Günther Horn , Fritz Hauselt )	3: 24.8 min
3 × 1000 m relay	Eintracht Frankfurt ( Fritz Schlockermann , Hofferberth, Heinz Ulzheimer )	7: 45.6 min	Prussia Krefeld (Bongartz, Heitzer, Kraus)	7: 47.8 min	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen ( Rolf Lamers , Heinz Hoewner , Karl Grünsfelder )	7: 48.0 min
10,000 m of walking	Hermann Grittner ( Reichsbahn SV Cologne )	49: 28.4 min	Rudolf Lüttge ( Eintracht Braunschweig )	49: 29.0 min	Konrad Dietz ( Post SV Bonn )	50: 33.6 min
25 km walk	Rudolf Lüttge ( Eintracht Braunschweig )	2: 09: 03.0 h	Hermann Grittner ( Reichsbahn SV Cologne )	2:12:29 h	Fritz Bleiweiß ( SG Tiergarten Berlin )	2:13:25 h
25 km walk , team competition	Eintracht Braunschweig ( Rudolf Lüttge , Walter Stoltz , Theo Arendes )	6:57:02 h	Hamburger SV ( Hermann Schmidt , Rudolf Modes , Feucht)	6:58:17 h	BV Herne-Süd ( Willi Schneidereit , Tietze, Kroschek)	7:09:36 h
high jump	Ludwig Koppenwallner ( VfL Munich )	1.90 m	Hermann Nacke ( Police SV Kiel )	1.88 m	Dieter Hoppenrath ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	1.81 m
Pole vault	Rudolf Glötzner ( Turnerbund Weiden )	3.80 m	Kurt Landschulze ( Police SV Cologne )	3.70 m	Hugo Magris ( Stuttgart Kickers )	3.70 m
Long jump	Gerhard Luther ( TSV 1860 Munich )	7.32 m	Heinz Steffen ( SV St. Georg 1895 Hamburg )	7.16 m	Heinz Kreulich ( TC Gelsenkirchen 1874 )	7.15 m
Triple jump	Horst Vogt ( ASC Fulda )	14.34 m	Kurt Unger ( ASV Horb )	13.85 m	Helmut Wiersdorf ( VfL Oldenburg )	13.66 m
Shot put	Karl Jansen ( ASV Cologne )	14.80 m	Otto Luh ( VfB Giessen )	14.53 m	Josef Bongen ( VfL 1895 Krefeld )	14.22 m
Discus throw	Heinz Rosendahl ( Black and White Radevormwald )	46.00 m	Gerhard Hilbrecht ( TSV 1860 Munich )	45.28 m	Ernst Figgen ( OSV Hörde )	42.80 m
Hammer throw	Karl Storch ( ASC Fulda )	55.22 m	Karl Wolf ( Karlsruher TV 1846 )	55.17 m	Karl Hein ( SV St. Georg 1895 Hamburg )	53.66 m
Javelin throw	Heinrich Will ( Rendsburger TSV )	60.50 m	Johannes Boeder ( SG Eichkamp Berlin )	57.51 m	Gerd Middelberg ( Black and White Radevormwald )	57.05 m
Pentathlon , 1934 W. i. Klamm .: 1985 value.	Gerhard Luther ( TSV 1860 Munich )	3909 P (3729 P)	Hermann Nacke ( Police SV Kiel )	3690 P (3500 P)	Ludwig Koppenwallner ( VfL Munich )	3685 P (3491 P)
Decathlon , 1934 W. i. Klamm .: 1985 value.	Gerhard Luther ( TSV 1860 Munich )	6691 P (6458 P)	Ludwig Koppenwallner ( VfL Munich )	6578 P (6345 P)	Hans Zepernick ( Blue-White Osnabrück )	6355 P (6230 P)
Forest run - 7500 m	Ludwig Warnemünde ( SC Victoria Hamburg )	24:02 min	Otto Eitel ( TSV Esslingen )	24:05 min	Hermann Eberlein ( TSV 1860 Munich )	24:23 min
Forest run , team competition	TSV 1860 Munich ( Hermann Eberlein , Georg Goldemund , Hans Glöckler )	25 P (seats 3/5/17)	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen ( Edmund Nadolny , Walter Türk , Rolf Lamers )	28 P (seats 4/11/13) >	TSV Esslingen ( Otto Eitel , Helmut Bolzhauser , Ruf)	37 P (places 2/8/27)

Medalists women

discipline	gold	power	silver	power	bronze	power
100 m	Marga Petersen ( Werder Bremen )	12.3 s	Margot Gundlach ( SpVgg Bingen-Büdesheim )	12.4 s	Elfriede Möller ( TuS Alstertal Hamburg )	12.5 s
80 m hurdles	Maria Sander born Domagala ( Rot-Weiß Oberhausen )	11.9 s	Erika Borchardt ( Hamburger SV )	12.1 s	Hanni Wahnemühl ( SSV Wuppertal )	12.1 s
4 × 100 m relay	Werder Bremen ( Hannelore Mikos , Marga Petersen , Alwine Schulz , Helga Huhn )	49.0 s	SSV Wuppertal ( Emmy Albus , Hildegard Luhmann , Marianne Dekkers , Ruth Limbach nee Schwanck )	49.2 s	Eintracht Frankfurt (Haxel, Morgenthal, Margot Glöckner , Resi Gugler née Kurz )	49.5 s
high jump	Gertrud Pagalies ( TuS Duisburg 48/99 )	1.53 m	Frieda Strüver ( TS Jahn Munich )	1.52 m	Hildegard Gerschler ( TSV Braunschweig )	1.52 m
Long jump	Gisela Jahn ( SG Eichkamp Berlin )	5.60 m	Irmgard Kirchhoff ( KSV Hessen Kassel )	5.43 m	Erika von der Busche ( MTV Lüneburg )	5.39 m
Shot put	Gertrud Schlueter ( SV St. Georg Hamburg )	13.12 m	Marianne Schulze-Entrup ( TV Münster 1862 )	12.65 m	Lena Stumpf ( VfL Germania Leer )	12.13 m
Discus throw	Else Hümmer born Graf ( SV 1873 Nuremberg-South )	40.26 m	Anna Klooss ( KSV Hessen Kassel )	39.57 m	Karen Uthke ( ASV Cologne )	39.15 m
Javelin throw	Inge Wolf b. Plank ( 1. FC Nuremberg )	45.69 m	Alwine Lehr ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	40.37 m	Gertrud Ulbrich ( TSV Schwaben Augsburg )	38.02 m
Pentathlon , official value. i. Klamm .: 1980 value.	Lena Stumpf ( VfL Germania Leer )	410 P (3541 P)	Marianne Schulze-Entrup ( TV Münster 1862 )	378 P (3232 P)	Gertrud Schlueter ( SV St. Georg Hamburg )	333 P (3104 P)

literature

• Fritz Steinmetz: 75 years of the German Athletics Championships: (1898–1972) . 1st edition. Bartels and Wernitz, Berlin / Munich / Frankfurt (M.) 1973, ISBN 3-87039-956-2 (A contribution to the history of athletics).

Web links

• German athletics champions (until 2003) on sport-komplett.de
• Don't be afraid of the black man , report in Spiegel online, Der Spiegel 33/1948 from August 14, 1948 and a. on the imaginary chances of German track and field athletes at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London - not yet admitted there
• Results of the German Marathon Championships (30 km) in Hamburg on September 19th on the website Marathonspiegel
• Results of the German Marathon Championships (30 km) team ranking in Hamburg on September 19th on the website Marathonspiegel

Individual references and notes

1. ↑ Venues of the German Athletics Championships since 1946 (PDF; 47 kB)
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.