German Athletics Championships 1951

51st German Athletics Championships

city	Düsseldorf / 3 other locations
Stadion	Rheinstadion
Competitions	34 + 7 at other venues
opening	July 28, 1951
Final day	July 29, 1951
timeline
← Stuttgart 1950	Berlin 1952 →

The 51st German Athletics Championships were held on July 28 and 29, 1951 in the Düsseldorf Rheinstadion . Almost all disciplines including the marathon took place in the context of this event.

In the pole vault , Julius Schneider set a new German record with 4.20 m.

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

Forest run (men) - Uelzen , April 22nd on a route with individual and team evaluation
All-around competitions (women: pentathlon ) / (men: pentathlon and decathlon ), each with individual ratings - Wetzlar , 18./19. August
50 km walk (men) - Braunschweig , September 9, with individual and team evaluation

For the first time, another hurdle race on the 200 meter route was included in the competition program for men . In the following year this competition was canceled again, but was then part of the championship competitions from 1953 to 1965. The men's pentathlon was last held as the "German Pentathlon". The decathlon disciplines from the first day were evaluated .

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 1951 / Results .

Medalists men

discipline	gold	power	silver	power	bronze	power
100 m	Heinz Fütterer ( Karlsruher FC Phönix )	10.8 s	Peter Kraus ( VfL Munich )	10.8 s	Werner Zandt ( Stuttgart Kickers )	10.8 s
200 m	Peter Kraus ( VfL Munich )	21.4 s	Werner Zandt ( Stuttgart Kickers )	21.4 s	Heinz Kosina ( 1. FC Schwandorf )	22.0 s
400 m	Hans Geister ( CSV Marathon 1910 Krefeld )	47.2 s	Karl-Friedrich Haas ( 1. FC Nuremberg )	47.3 s	Eugen Vogt ( TSV 1860 Munich )	48.2 s
800 m	Urban Cleve ( Prussia Krefeld )	1: 50.0 min	Heinz Ulzheimer ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	1: 50.1 min	Ernst Viebahn ( Rot-Weiß Oberhausen )	1: 54.4 min
1500 m	Karl Kluge ( Werder Bremen )	3: 50.2 min	Werner Lueg ( Sportfreunde Gevelsberg )	3: 50.6 min	Heinz Laufer ( DSV Hannover 1878 )	3: 50.8 min
5000 m	Herbert Schade ( Barmer TV 1846 Wuppertal )	14: 19.6 min	Walter Müller ( TSV 1860 Munich )	14: 39.4 min	Siegfried Steller ( SCC Berlin )	15: 11.8 min
10,000 m	Erich Kruzycki ( SC Victoria Hamburg )	31: 45.2 min	Günter Heßelmann ( SuS 09 Dinslaken )	31: 50.2 min	Hermann Eberlein ( TSV 1860 Munich )	32: 03.8 min
marathon	Wilfried Hogrefe ( TK Hanover )	2:46:06 h	Heinz Kuderski ( TuS Jahn Werdohl )	2:50:52 h	Josef Legge ( VfL Bochum )	2:54:33 h
Marathon , team competition	TK Hannover ( Wilfried Hogrefe , Gerd von Hanu-Krüger , Rodowski)	8:54:10 h	FSV Frankfurt ( Egon Pfarr , Erich Lachhein , Otto Haupt )	9:27:06 h	ETSV Altona-Eidelstedt ( Theodor Meinecke , Lehmann, Wilhelm Grube )	10:29:52 h
110 m hurdles	Wolfgang Troßbach ( Berlin SC )	15.0 s	Günter Theilmann ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	15.1 s	Hans Zepernick ( Blue-White Osnabrück )	15.2 s
200 m hurdles	Bert Steines ( Red-White Koblenz )	24.7 s	Fritz Butenholz ( DTSG 74 Hanover )	25.3 s	Friedel Schirmer ( FC Stadthagen )	25.6 s
400 m hurdles	Karl Kohlhoff ( Red-White Koblenz )	53.4 s	Georg Sallen ( OSV Hörde )	53.4 s	Oskar Scharr ( SpVgg.Feuerbach )	53.6 s
3000 m obstacle	Helmut Gude ( TSV Esslingen )	9: 02.4 min	Erhard Kynast ( Green-White Braunschweig )	9: 22.4 min	Günther Woeller ( Werder Bremen )	9: 26.2 min
4 × 100 m relay	Eintracht Frankfurt (P. Schulz, Eckefried Becker , P. Schäfer, Konrad Wittekindt )	42.1 s	Prussia Krefeld ( Heinz Fischer , Josef Heinen , Wilhelm Bauer , Jeuken)	42.1 s	SV Phönix Ludwigshafen ( Heinz Gruber , Werner Brunst , Ernst Ruppert , Horst Sturm )	42.1 s
4 × 400 m relay	CSV Marathon 1910 Krefeld ( Georg Niepoth , Leo Lickes , Wolfgang Miedecke , Hans Geister )	3: 14.8 min	Rot-Weiß Koblenz ( Gerhard Audorf , Peter Mirkes , Karl Kohlhoff , Hubert Huppertz )	3: 15.4 min	MTV Wolfenbüttel ( Paul Steindor , Heinz Blumenberg , Harry Decker , Karl-Heinz Steinhoff )	3: 19.8 min
3 × 1000 m relay	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen ( Karl-Heinz Surray , Karl-Friedrich Dörsing , Ernst Viebahn )	7: 27.4 min	SpVgg. Feuerbach (Stark, Kurt Anderko , Siegfried Binder )	7: 28.3 min	\| TK Hannover ( Dieter Klages , Klaus Wiegel , Peter Bock )	7: 32.2 min
10,000 m of walking	Rudolf Lüttge ( Eintracht Braunschweig )	47: 51.2 min	Bernd Schwertel ( VfR 07 Limburg )	50: 51.4 min	Siegfried Kemper ( SCC Berlin )	50: 56.4 min
50 km walk	Rudolf Lüttge ( Eintracht Braunschweig )	4:58:06 h	Robert Kübler ( TSV Georgii Allianz Stuttgart )	5:02:24 h	Gustav Peinemann ( WSV Braunschweig )	5: 06.26 h
50 km walk , team competition	Eintracht Braunschweig ( Rudolf Lüttge , Theo Arendes , Walter Stoltz )	15:28:47 h	WSV Braunschweig ( Gustav Peinemann , Helmut Ludwig , Viktor Siuda )	16:15:05 h	SCC Berlin ( Reinhold Hertel , Meyer, Siegfried Kemper )	16:17:47 h
high jump	Werner Bähr ( Olympia Neumünster )	1.91 m	Bernd Naumann ( SC Frankfurt 1880 )	1.88 m	Peter Zeiß ( KSV Hessen Kassel )	1.85 m
Pole vault	Julius Schneider ( SC Pforzheim )	4.20 m DR	Gustav Stührk ( TSV 1860 Munich )	3.70 m	Walter Simon ( OSC Berlin )	3.60 m
Long jump	Herbert Göbel ( SV Korbach 09 )	7.19 m	Fritz Gleim ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	7.08 m	Harry Jungmann ( Regensburg Gymnastics Association )	7.07 m
Triple jump	Werner Bodenhagen ( MTV Wolfenbüttel )	14.63 m	Kurt Trozowski ( TuS Jahn Werdohl )	14.32 m	Kurt Müller ( SC Pforzheim )	14.25 m
Shot put	Werner Theurer ( SpVgg.Feuerbach )	14.77 m	Josef Hipp ( TSG Balingen )	14.67 m	Josef Bongen ( TSV Viersen )	14.31 m
Discus throw	Heinz Rosendahl ( Black and White Radevormwald )	46.77 m	Walter Janssen ( Werder Bremen )	45.50 m	Ernst Kunz ( OSC Berlin )	45.30 m
Hammer throw	Karl Wolf ( Karlsruher TV 1846 )	56.96 m	Karl Storch ( Borussia Fulda )	55.41 m	Erwin Blask ( Grünweiß Frankfurt )	51.77 m
Javelin throw	Emil Sick ( Stuttgart Kickers )	69.54 m	Hans-Joachim Schmid ( TSG Balingen )	62.66 m	Heinrich Will ( Rendsburger TSV )	62.01 m
Pentathlon , 1934 W. i. Klamm .: 1985 value.	Friedel Schirmer ( FC Stadthagen )	3843P P (3527 P)	Hubert Huppertz ( Red-White Koblenz )	3591 P (3453 P)	Günther Theilmann ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	3542 P (3419 P)
Decathlon , 1934 W. i. Klamm .: 1985 value.	Friedel Schirmer ( FC Stadthagen )	6615 P (6405 P)	Hubert Huppertz ( Red-White Koblenz )	6346 P (6209 P)	Ludwig Koppenwallner ( VfL Munich )	6302 P (6102 P)
Forest run - 7600 m	Walter Müller ( TSV 1860 Munich )	23: 55.2 min	Günter Heßelmann ( SuS 09 Dinslaken )	24: 01.8 min	Erich Kruzycki ( SC Victoria Hamburg )	24: 14.4 min
Forest run , team competition	TSV 1860 Munich (Walter Müller, Hermann Eberlein , Ludwig Kaindl )	10 P (places 1/5/6)	TSV Esslingen ( Helmut Gude , Otto Eitel , Dieter Schlegel )	26 P (places 8/10/11)	Barmer TV 1846 Wuppertal (Braun, Herbert Schade , Heiko Emde )	42 P (Plä. 14/15/20)

Medalists women

discipline	gold	power	silver	power	bronze	power
100 m	Marga Petersen ( Werder Bremen )	12.2 s	Maria Sander born Domagala ( SuS 09 Dinslaken )	12.3 s	Ursula Knab ( USC Heidelberg )	12.4 s
200 m	Maria Hertneck ( Stuttgart Kickers )	25.6 s	Christel Neukirch ( Bonn FV )	25.6 s	Karin Fehring ( MTV Munich 1879 )	25.7 s
80 m hurdles	Maria Sander born Domagala ( SuS 09 Dinslaken )	11.6 s	Anneliese Seonbuchner ( 1. FC Nuremberg )	11.7 s	Lore Fauth ( Stuttgart Kickers )	11.9 s
4 × 100 m relay	Werder Bremen ( Helga Kluge née Huhn , Marga Petersen , Hannelore Mikos , Lena Stumpf )	48.4 s	SSV Wuppertal ( Renate Kortenhaus , Kläre Vorthmann , Marianne Dekkers , Hildegard Hellwig )	48.5 s	1. FC Nürnberg ( Wilhelmine Schubert , Anneliese Seonbuchner , Helma Horlacher , Lotte Wackersreuther )	48.6 s
high jump	Margarete von Buchholtz ( Stuttgarter Kickers )	1.55 m	Luise Lockemann ( 1. SC Göttingen 05 )	1.55 m	Hildegard Gerschler ( Freiburg FC )	1.50 m
Long jump	Lore Fauth ( Stuttgart Kickers )	5.80 m	Elfriede von Nitzsch ( TK Hannover )	5.74 m	Klare Vorthmann ( SSV Wuppertal )	5.63 m
Shot put	Gertrud Kille ( SV St. Georg Hamburg )	13.26 m	Dorothea Kreß ( VfL Pinneberg )	12.33 m	Lilli Kähler ( USC Heidelberg )	12.25 m
Discus throw	Marianne Werner b. Schulze-Entrup ( Prussia Munster )	42.72 m	Karen Sonneck born Uthke ( TK Hanover )	41.95 m	Else Hümmer born Graf ( 1. FC Nuremberg )	40.76 m
Javelin throw	Marlies Müller ( Red-White Koblenz )	46.49 m	Elisabeth Groß ( 1. FC Nuremberg )	42.81 m	Alwine Lehr ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	40.27 m
Pentathlon , official value. i. Klamm .: 1955 value.	Lena Stumpf ( Werder Bremen )	436 P (4292 P)	Maria Sander born Domagala ( SuS 09 Dinslaken )	426 P (4285 P)	Lore Fauth ( Stuttgart Kickers )	426 P (4300 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
Film clips u. a. from the German Athletics Championships 1951 on filmothek.bundesarchiv.de, range: 5:26 min to 6:50 min
What a shame, Kunge like a horse Spiegel online, article from July 11, 1951
Results of the German Marathon Championships men in Düsseldorf on July 28th on the website Marathonspiegel
Results of the German Marathon Championships men team ranking in Düsseldorf on July 28th on the website Marathonspiegel

Individual references and notes

↑ Development of the German Records (PDF; 50 kB).
↑ 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 rated according to an older German women's pentathlon table, disciplines: Day 1 - shot put, high jump, 200 m / day 2 - 80 m hurdles, long jump.

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

[2] Venues of the German Athletics Championships since 1946 (PDF; 47 kB).

[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 rated according to an older German women's pentathlon table, disciplines: Day 1 - shot put, high jump, 200 m / day 2 - 80 m hurdles, long jump.