German Athletics Championships 1954

54th German Athletics Championships

city	Hamburg / 3 other places
Stadion	Volksparkstadion
Competitions	33 + 9 at other venues
opening	August 6, 1954
Final day	August 8, 1954
timeline
← Augsburg 1953	Frankfurt am Main 1955 →

The 54th German Athletics Championships were held from August 6th to 8th, 1954 in Hamburg 's Volkspark Stadium.

After a break of twenty years, there was another 800-meter run for women, which was followed by further medium and long-distance distances in the following decades.

Jutta Krüger improved her own German record in the javelin throw from 48.60 m to 49.67 m.

As in previous years, several more championship titles were awarded at various other locations:

Forest run (men) - Mainz-Gonsenheim , April 25th on a track length with individual and team evaluation
Marathon run (men) and 50 km walk (men) - Leverkusen , July 24th with individual and team ratings
All-around competitions (women: pentathlon ) / (men: pentathlon and decathlon ) - Duisburg Wedaustadion , 24./25. July with individual ratings

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 1954 / Results .

Medalists men

discipline	gold	power	silver	power	bronze	power
100 m	Heinz Fütterer ( Karlsruher SC )	10.5 s	Leonhard Pohl ( TSV Pfungstadt )	10.7 s	Adolf Kluck ( ASV Cologne )	10.7 s
200 m	Heinz Fütterer ( Karlsruher SC )	21.5 s	Leonard Pohl ( TSV Pfungstadt )	21.9 s	Peter Kraus ( VfB Stuttgart )	22.0 s
400 m	Karl-Friedrich Haas ( 1. FC Nuremberg )	47.4 s	Hans Geister ( CSV Marathon 1910 Krefeld )	48.2 s	Helmut Dreher ( Red-White Koblenz )	48.8 s
800 m	Olaf Lawrenz ( Berlin SC )	1: 50.1 min	Friedrich Stracke ( Barmer TV 1846 Wuppertal )	1: 51.5 min	Edmund Brenner ( SKV Eglosheim )	1: 51.9 min
1500 m	Werner Lueg ( Barmer TV 1846 Wuppertal )	3: 45.4 min	Günter Dohrow ( SCC Berlin )	3: 46.4 min	Heinz Laufer ( TG Schwenningen )	3: 47.8 min
5000 m	Herbert Schade ( Solingen LC )	14: 17.4 min	Friedhelm Bongard ( Solingen LC )	14: 46.0 min	Fritz Hänsch ( TSV Munich-East )	14: 48.0 min
10,000 m	Herbert Schade ( Solingen LC )	29: 30.0 min	Hermann Eberlein ( TSV 1860 Munich )	31: 25.2 min	Gerd von Hanu-Krüger ( TK Hannover )	31: 27.2 min
marathon	Hans Vollbach ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	2: 38: 44.4 h	August Blumensaat ( TUSEM Essen )	2: 39: 25.0 h	Willy Wange ( TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen )	2: 45: 30.6 h
Marathon , team competition	TSV Bayer 04 Leverkusen ( Hans Vollbach , Willi Wange , Klaus Köhler )	8:18:16 h	TUSEM Essen ( August Blumensaat , Fritz Schöning , Günter Leifhelm )	8:19:07 h	BTSV 1850 Berlin ( Gerhard Dorfeldt , Ernst Mensing , Hornbostel)	8:41:06 h
110 m hurdles	Bert Steines ( Red-White Koblenz )	15.1 s	Hans Zepernick ( Blue-White Osnabrück )	15.2 s	Karl-Ernst Schottes ( DSD Düsseldorf )	15.2 s
200 m hurdles	Bert Steines ( Red-White Koblenz )	24.4 s	Alfred Maier ( Post SV Munich )	25.1 s	Arthur Scheibner ( Stuttgart Kickers )	25.6 s
400 m hurdles	Kurt Bonah ( Werder Bremen )	53.0 s	Wolfgang Fischer ( Stuttgart Kickers )	53.5 s	Georg Sallen ( OSV Hörde )	53.7 s
3000 m obstacle	Karl-Heinz Schmalz ( Red and White Koblenz )	9: 03.2 min	Helmut Thumm ( TSV Bernhausen )	9: 04.0 min	Stephan Lüpfert ( VfB Stuttgart )	9: 16.6 min
4 × 100 m relay	ASV Cologne ( Heinz Oberbeck , Adolf Kluck , Emil Heydt , Manfred Germar )	41.7 s	Eintracht Frankfurt ( Eckefried Becker , Karl Blümmel , Richter, Schweigert)	41.9 s	Karlsruher SC ( Franz Bastian , Lothar Knörzer , Heinz Fütterer , Günter Kussmaul )	42.0 s
4 × 400 m relay	Red and White Koblenz ( Wolfgang Schmidtke , Günther Steines , Hubert Huppertz , Helmut Dreher )	3: 16.9 min	SCC Berlin (Schmode, Walter Sichling , Günter Dohrow , Seifert)	3: 17.1 min	CSV Marathon 1910 Krefeld (Niepoth, Volker Rösch , Buchmann, Hans Geister )	3: 19.3 min
3 × 1000 m relay	Barmer TV 1846 Wuppertal ( Friedrich Stracke , Hans Emde , Werner Lueg )	7: 26.5 min	Police SV Berlin ( Peter Wunderlich , Herbert Pieritz , Hans Deutschländer )	7: 27.0 min	TSV 1860 Munich ( Alfred Brand , Günther Wagner , Heinrich Moser )	7: 27.8 min
10,000 m of walking	Claus Biethan ( Hamburger SV )	49: 46.4 min	Alfred Schnabel ( MTV Giessen )	50: 18.0 min	Alfred Fattmann ( black and white food )	50: 32.2 min
50 km walk	Hermann Grittner ( ESV Olympia Cologne )	5: 10: 20.2 h	Gustav Peinemann ( Eintracht Braunschweig )	5: 12: 04.0 h	Walter Stoltz ( Eintracht Braunschweig )	5: 16: 10.2 h
50 km walk , team competition	Eintracht Braunschweig ( Gustav Peinemann , Walter Stoltz , Viktor Siuda )	15: 47: 02.4 h	Hamburger SV ( Emil Griem , Rudolf Modes , Claus Biethan )	16: 45: 39.2 h	ESV Grün-Weiß Essen (Tietze, Riemenschneider, Willi Schneidereit )	17:10:18.2 h
high jump	Werner Bähr ( Olympia Neumünster )	1.96 m	Hans-Jürgen Jenss ( VfL Wolfsburg )	1.93 m	Günther Theilmann ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	1.93 m
Pole vault	Julius Schneider ( SC Pforzheim )	4.10 m	Wigo Biffart ( TSG Neustadt )	3.80 m	Willi Reissmann ( TV Fürth 1860 )	3.80 m
Long jump	Heinz Oberbeck ( ASV Cologne )	7.39 m	Günther Jobst ( Düsseldorfer SC 99 )	7.25 m	Fritz Gleim ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	7.23 m
Triple jump	Theo Strohschnieder ( TV Cloppenburg )	14.67 m	Herbert Pfeffer ( SV Darmstadt 98 )	14.49 m	Kurt Trozowski ( TuS Jahn Werdohl )	14.45 m
Shot put	Josef Klik ( TuS Fritzlar )	14.56 m	Werner Eckert ( FC Wehr )	14.46 m	Gerhard Brink ( Rendsburger TSV )	14.37 m
Discus throw	Karl Oweger ( TSV 1860 Munich )	50.20 m	Günther Noack ( Grünweiß Frankfurt )	48.32 m	Heinz Rosendahl ( Black and White Radevormwald )	47.32 m
Hammer throw	Karl Storch ( Borussia Fulda )	57.18 m	Hugo Ziermann ( Grünweiß Frankfurt )	55.29 m	Paul Ronge ( Black and White Radevormwald )	50.31 m
Javelin throw	Herbert Koschel ( Red-White Koblenz )	68.48 m	Gerhard Kelle ( TSV Süßen )	67.16 m	Emil Sick ( Stuttgart Kickers )	63.68 m
Pentathlon , 1952 W. i. Klamm .: 1985 value.	Horst Bodenstein ( TK Hannover )	2874 P (3320 P)	Werner Schmidt ( TG Rüsselsheim )	2788 P (3226 P)	Hans-Georg von Schnering ( University of Münster )	2671 P (3176 P)
Decathlon , 1952 W. i. Klamm .: 1985 value.	Friedel Schirmer ( FC Stadthagen )	5993 P (6494 P)	Heinz Oberbeck ( ASV Cologne )	5883 P (6365 P)	Erwin Meister ( 1. FC Kaiserslautern )	5683 P (6207 P)
Forest run - 7740 m	Stephan Lüpfert ( VfB Stuttgart )	24: 07.0 min	Helmut Gude ( VfB Stuttgart )	24: 07.6 min	Walter Konrad ( TSV 1860 Munich )	24: 10.8 min
Forest run , team competition	VfB Stuttgart ( Stephan Lüpfert , Helmut Gude , Helmut Thumm )	9 P (seats 1/2/8)	TSV 1860 Munich ( Walter Konrad , Hermann Eberlein , Walter Müller)	15 P (places 3/5/10)	SC Dahlhausen ( Erich Kruzycki , Reinhold Betting , Wiegand)	28 P (seats 17/11/23)

Medalists women

discipline	gold	power	silver	power	bronze	power
100 m	Maria Sander born Domagala ( SuS 09 Dinslaken )	12.6 s	Irmgard Egert ( Eintracht Frankfurt )	12.7 s	Charlotte Böhmer ( OSV Hörde )	12.8 s
200 m	Charlotte Böhmer ( OSV Hörde )	24.7 s	Maria Arenz ( DSD Düsseldorf )	25.2 s	Helga Erny b. Klein ( SG Mannheim )	25.3 s
800 m	Isolde Beichler ( TSV Schwaben Augsburg )	2: 16.3 min	Marianne Weiß ( OSC Waldniel )	2: 17.2 m	Thea Isleb ( Post-SV Munich )	2: 21.2 min
80 m hurdles	Maria Sander born Domagala ( SuS 09 Dinslaken )	11.4 s	Zenta Gastl ( TSV 1860 Munich )	11.5 s	Anneliese Seonbuchner ( 1. FC Nuremberg )	11.5 s
4 × 100 m relay	OSV Hörde (Hlubek, Preker, Ostmann, Charlotte Böhmer )	48.8 s	Eintracht Frankfurt ( Renate Schwarzkopf , Irmgard Egert , Karola Ebenritter , Käthe Weigel )	48.8 s	1. FC Nürnberg ( Wilhelmine Schubert , Anneliese Seonbuchner , Maria Sturm , Ursula Holzwarth )	49.4 s
high jump	Ursula Schmückle ( TSG Ulm 1846 )	1.60 m	Renate Krämer ( ASV Cologne )	1.55 m	Gisela Bär ( SpVgg.Feuerbach )	1.55 m
Long jump	Lena Stumpf ( TV Leer )	5.87 m	Erika Fisch ( MTV Osterode )	5.80 m	Lore Fauth ( Stuttgart Kickers )	5.78 m
Shot put	Marianne Werner b. Schulze-Entrup ( SC Greven 09 )	14.60 m	Marlene Biedermann ( VfL Gladbeck )	13.81 m	Gerda Hagen ( Post-SV Düsseldorf )	13.55 m
Discus throw	Marianne Werner b. Schulze-Entrup ( SC Greven 09 )	46.02 m	Jolanda Mayr ( TSV Pfronten )	43.66 m	Karen Sonneck born Uthke ( TK Hanover )	43.61 m
Javelin throw	Jutta Krüger ( OSC Berlin )	49.67 m DR	Almut Brömmel ( TSV 1860 Munich )	45.43 m	Elisabeth Groß ( 1. FC Nuremberg )	43.85 m
Pentathlon , official value. i. Klamm .: 1955 value.	Maria Sander born Domagala ( SuS 09 Dinslaken )	3670 P (4307 P)	Lena Stumpf ( TV Leer )	3584 P (4271 P)	Marlene Biedermann ( VfL Gladbeck )	3471 P (4098 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 1954 on filmothek.bundesarchiv.de, range: 7:13 min to 9:35 min

Individual references and notes

↑ Venues of the German Athletics Championships since 1946 (PDF; 47 kB)
↑ Results of the German Marathon Championships in Leverkusen on July 24th on the Marathonspiegel website
↑ Results of the German Marathon Championships team ranking in Leverkusen on July 24th on the website Marathonspiegel
↑ Disciplines of men's pentathlon: long jump, javelin throw, 200 m, discus throw, 1500 m
↑ The pentathlon was rated from 1952 to 1954 according to the international table valid for women in those years, disciplines: Day 1 - shot put, high jump, 200 m / day 2 - 80 m hurdles, long jump.

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

[2] Results of the German Marathon Championships in Leverkusen on July 24th on the Marathonspiegel website

[3] Results of the German Marathon Championships team ranking in Leverkusen on July 24th on the website Marathonspiegel

[4] Disciplines of men's pentathlon: long jump, javelin throw, 200 m, discus throw, 1500 m

[5] The pentathlon was rated from 1952 to 1954 according to the international table valid for women in those years, disciplines: Day 1 - shot put, high jump, 200 m / day 2 - 80 m hurdles, long jump.