German Athletics Championships 1949

49th German Athletics Championships

city	Bremen / 3 other locations
Stadion	Weser Stadium
Competitions	33 + 7 at other venues
opening	August 6, 1949
Final day	August 7, 1949
timeline
← Nuremberg 1948	Stuttgart 1950 →

The 49th German Athletics Championships were held on August 6th and 7th, 1949 in Bremen's Weser Stadium. It was the first national athletics championships after the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany. Almost all disciplines including the marathon took place in the context of this event.

There were three exceptions with championship competitions in other locations on other dates:

Forest run (men) - Büren , April 10th on a route with individual and team evaluation
All-around competitions (women: pentathlon ) / (men: pentathlon and decathlon ), each with individual ratings - Stuttgart-Feuerbach , 20./21. August
50 km walk (men) - Stuttgart-Feuerbach , August 21 with individual and team classification. This competition came back to the championship program after an interruption from 1942 to 1948.

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 1949 / Results .

Medalists men

discipline	gold	power	silver	power	bronze	power
100 m	Heinz Fischer ( Prussia Krefeld )	10.6 s	Günther Pesch ( Hammer SpVg. 03/04 )	10.8 s	Konrad Wittekindt ( SC Frankfurt 1880 )	10.9 s
200 m	Leo Lickes ( Prussia Krefeld )	22.2 s	Walter Schreiber ( TSV 1860 Munich )	22.6 s	Arno Boger ( TV Pforzheim 1834 )	22.9 s
400 m	Hubert Huppertz ( Red-White Koblenz )	47.8 s	Herbert Wudtke ( VfB Stuttgart )	48.4 s	Gerhard Audorf ( Berlin SC )	48.5 s
800 m	Heinz Ulzheimer ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	1: 51.4 min	Günther Steines ( Red and White Koblenz )	1: 52.3 min	Kurt Bonah ( Bielefelder TG )	1: 53.7 min
1500 m	Karl Kluge ( Werder Bremen )	3: 57.2 min	Kurt Anderko ( SpVgg. Feuerbach )	3: 58.0 min	Heinz Laufer ( VfL Schwenningen )	3: 58.0 min
5000 m	Otto Eitel ( TSV Esslingen )	14: 46.2 min	Herbert Schade ( Green-White Solingen )	14: 47.0 min	Helmut Bolzhauser ( TSV Esslingen )	14: 51.6 min
10,000 m	Otto Eitel ( TSV Esslingen )	31: 39.8 min	Hermann Eberlein ( TSV 1860 Munich )	32: 34.2 min	Willi Holtkamp ( Red-White Koblenz )	33: 11.4 min
marathon	Willi Bürklein ( Reichsbahn SV Stuttgart )	2: 53: 10.8 h	Josef Legge ( VfL Bochum )	2: 55: 08.0 h	Willy Peters ( DLC Aachen )	3:04:09.8 h
Marathon , team competition	Reichsbahn SV Stuttgart ( Willi Bürklein , Karl Meyer , Schmitt)	9:36:16 h	FSV Frankfurt ( Egon Pfarr , Wilhelm Borns , Erich Lachhein )	10:05:07 h	SV Büren 21 ( Willi Trapp , Brückner, Hans Starke )	10:39:41 h
110 m hurdles	Hans Zepernick ( Blue-White Osnabrück )	15.5 s	Ernst Becker ( Werder Bremen )	15.5 s	Wolfgang Troßbach ( ATS Kulmbach 1861 )	15.6 s
400 m hurdles	Karl Kohlhoff ( Holstein Kiel )	55.7 s	Heinz Bockelbrinck ( OSV Hörde )	56.2 s	Edmund Hidas-Hikisch ( VfL Munich )	56.4 s
3000 m obstacle	Ludwig Kaindl ( TSV 1860 Munich )	9: 35.0 min	Erhard Kynast ( Green-White Braunschweig )	9: 44.6 min	Peter Maassen ( Barmer TV 1846 Wuppertal )	9: 44.6 min
4 × 100 m relay	Prussia Krefeld ( Paul Schochow , Heinz Fischer , Wilhelm Bauer , Leo Lickes )	42.3 s	Hammer SpVg. 03/04 ( Georg Kremer , Günther Pesch , Graßhoff, U. Jonath)	42.5 s	Hamburger SV (Rohrssen, Mellerowicz, Dieter Wawrczyn , Lipphardt)	43.0 s
4 × 400 m relay	Hamburger SV ( Georg Lipphardt , Hermann Burnitz , Herbert Behrend , Hans Hieke )	3: 20.0 min	Rot-Weiß Koblenz ( Alfred Hochscheid , Bert Steines , Günther Steines , Hubert Huppertz )	3: 22.0 min	VfB Stuttgart (Kilian, Erhardt, Ellinger, Herbert Wudtke )	3: 22.2 min
3 × 1000 m relay	Prussia Krefeld (Bongartz, Heitzer, Hermann Arendt )	7: 34.4 min	Eintracht Frankfurt (Sauer, Hofferbert, Heinz Ulzheimer )	7: 34.6 min	Werder Bremen ( Hans Wever , Schiffer, Karl Kluge )	7: 37.2 min
10,000 m of walking	Rudolf Lüttge ( Eintracht Braunschweig )	49: 23.6 min	Hermann Grittner ( Reichsbahn SV Cologne )	52: 10.6 min	Bernd Schwertel ( VfR 19 Limburg )	52: 10.6 min
50 km walk	Friedrich Prehn ( SV Hamburg Police )	4:44:20 h	Fritz lead white ( MTV Braunschweig )	4:53:43 h	Rudolf Lüttge ( Eintracht Braunschweig )	4:56:51 h
50 km walk , team competition	Eintracht Braunschweig ( Rudolf Lüttge , Walter Stoltz , Wilhelm Kneifel )	15:37:37 h	Westfalia Herne (Koschzek, Kemper, Koppmeier)	16:26:23 h	Hamburger SV (Feucht, Rudolf Modes , Otto Biethan )	16:42:43 h
high jump	Hermann Nacke ( Police SV Kiel )	1.97 m	Ludwig Koppenwallner ( VfL Munich )	1.90 m	Günter Theilmann ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	1.85 m
Pole vault	Gustav Stührk ( TSV 1860 Munich )	3.90 m	Kurt Landschulze ( Prussia Krefeld )	3.80 m	Rudolf Glötzner ( Turnerbund Weiden )	3.80 m
Long jump	Heinz Kreulich ( TC Gelsenkirchen 1874 )	7.58 m	Gerhard Luther ( TSV 1860 Munich )	7.53 m	Helmut Wiersdorf ( VfB Oldenburg )	7.31 m
Triple jump	Theo Strohschneider ( TV Cloppenburg )	14.42 m	Paul Rapp ( Stuttgart Kickers )	14.12 m	Herbert Zimmer ( Rot-Weiß Oberhausen )	14.12 m
Shot put	Josef Bongen ( Prussia Krefeld )	15.27 m	Otto Luh ( VfB Giessen )	14.50 m	Helfried Mersinger ( TSG Heidelberg )	14.20 m
Discus throw	Gerhard Hilbrecht ( TSV 1860 Munich )	44.51 m	Heinz Rosendahl ( Black and White Radevormwald )	43.94 m	Walter Janssen ( Werder Bremen )	43.05 m
Hammer throw	Karl Wolf ( Karlsruher TV 1846 )	55.88 m	Karl Storch ( ASC Fulda )	54.64 m	Oskar Lutz ( OSV Hörde )	50.31 m
Javelin throw	Emil Sick ( Stuttgart Kickers )	62.10 m	Johannes Boeder ( Berlin SC )	59.45 m	Fritz Rudorf ( Hamburger SV )	58.66 m
Pentathlon , 1934 W. i. Klamm .: 1985 value.	Gerhard Luther ( TSV 1860 Munich )	3862 P (3675 P)	Herbert Vatter ( 1. FC Nuremberg )	3708 P (3564 P)	Josef Hipp ( Gymnastics Association Balingen )	3677 P (3501 P)
Decathlon , 1934 W. i. Klamm .: 1985 value.	Gerhard Luther ( TSV 1860 Munich )	6678 P (6445 P)	Josef Hipp ( Gymnastics Association Balingen )	6589 P (6349 P)	Ludwig Koppenwallner ( VfL Munich )	6165 P (5999 P)
Forest run - 7509 m	Otto Eitel ( TSV Esslingen )	24: 35.8 min	Ludwig Warnemünde ( SC Victoria Hamburg )	24: 36.0 min	Ludwig Kaindl ( TSV 1860 Munich )	24: 44.4 min
Forest run , team competition	TSV 1860 Munich ( Ludwig Kaindl , Hermann Eberlein , Hans Glöckler )	13 P (seats 3/4/8)	TSV Esslingen ( Otto Eitel , Helmut Bolzhauser , Helmut Gude )	21 P (seats 1/9/15)	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen ( Edmund Nadolny , Walter Türk , Willi Klömpken )	33 P (places 6/13/20)

Medalists women

discipline	gold	power	silver	power	bronze	power
100 m	Marga Petersen ( Werder Bremen )	12.1 s	Ruth Limbach b. Schwanck ( SSV Wuppertal )	12.4 s	Maria Sander born Domagala ( Rot-Weiß Oberhausen )	12.5 s
200 m	Margot Gundlach ( Hassia Bingen )	26.3 s	Ruth Wenzel ( Berliner SC )	26.4 s	Else Ostmann ( Bielefelder TG )	26.4 s
80 m hurdles	Maria Sander born Domagala ( Rot-Weiß Oberhausen )	11.9 s	Lore Fauth ( Stuttgart Kickers )	12.5 s	Siegfriede Dempe (Jena)	12.5 s
4 × 100 m relay	Werder Bremen ( Helga Kluge née Huhn , Marga Petersen , Hannelore Mikos , Lena Stumpf )	48.3 s	SSV Wuppertal ( Marianne Dekkers , Ruth Limbach née Schwanck , Emmy Albus , Renate Kortenhaus )	48.8 s	Berliner SC (Schimmel, Struck, Reich, Ruth Wenzel )	49.7 s
high jump	Margarete von Buchholtz ( Stuttgarter Kickers )	1.61 m	Hildegard Gerschler ( Eintracht Braunschweig )	1.60 m	Grete Beickelmann ( TuS Opladen )	1.58 m
Long jump	Elfriede Brunemann ( TK Hanover )	6.12 m	Lena Stumpf ( Werder Bremen )	5.96 m	Irmgard Kirchhoff ( KSV Hessen Kassel )	5.92 m
Shot put	Karen Uthke ( ASV Cologne )	13.21 m	Gertrud Schlueter ( SV St. Georg 1895 Hamburg )	13.16 m	Hilde Siemer ( Oldenburg Gymnastics Association )	12.53 m
Discus throw	Karen Uthke ( ASV Cologne )	41.86 m	Else Hümmer born Graf ( SV 1873 Nuremberg-South )	40.52 m	Theda Stumpf ( Werder Bremen )	39.18 m
Javelin throw	Inge Wolf b. Plank ( 1. FC Nuremberg )	43.68 m	Marlies Müller ( ASV Cologne )	40.38 m	Helga Karsten born Isberg ( SV St. Georg 1895 Hamburg )	40.29 m
Pentathlon , official value. i. Klamm .: 1980 value.	Lena Stumpf ( Werder Bremen )	361 P (3331 P)	Lore Fauth ( Stuttgart Kickers )	338 P (3234 P)	Karen Uthke ( ASV Cologne )	295 P (2883 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
Results of the German Marathon Championships in Bremen on August 6th on the website Marathonspiegel
Results of the German Marathon Championships team ranking in Bremen on August 6th on the website Marathonspiegel
Film clips u. a. from the German Athletics Championships on filmothek.bundesarchiv.de, range: 4:13 min to 2:20 min

Individual references and notes

↑ Venues of the German Athletics Championships since 1946 (PDF; 47 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] 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.