Fritz Wenninger

Fritz_Wenninger
Fritz Wenninger in 1921 after winning his first European championship in Offenbach am Main
Full name	Johann Friedrich Wenninger
nation	German Empire
birthday	June 5, 1899
place of birth	Zuffenhausen ,  German Empire
date of death	October 29, 1951
Place of death	Tübingen ,  FR Germany
Career
discipline	Shot put , hammer throw , javelin throw , discus throw
society	KSV Zuffenhausen SV Stuttgarter Kickers FK Pirmasens
Medal table
German championships 3 × 2 × 0 ×
German championships gold Duisburg 1922 Shot put gold Frankfurt am Main 1923 Shot put silver Berlin 1927 Hammer throw gold Düsseldorf 1928 Hammer throw silver Wroclaw 1929 Hammer throw

Johann Friedrich "Fritz" Wenninger (born June 5, 1899 in Zuffenhausen , † October 29, 1951 in Tübingen ) was a German athlete for heavy athletics in stone throwing , shot put , hammer throw , weight throw , javelin throw , wrestling and discus throw . European champion in stone throwing, hammer throwing, discus throwing, shot put, weight throwing, ball throwing and multiple German champion .

Career

Fritz Wenninger grew up in Zuffenhausen , where he soon joined the Kraftsportverein (KSV) in Zuffenhausen. During the First World War he became a marine in Wilhelmshaven, where, according to contemporary witnesses, he trained daily. After the First World War, he quickly achieved his first sporting successes. In 1919 he became Württemberg champion in weightlifting (heavyweight class)

From 1920 he won numerous regional championships and on June 13, 1921 Fritz Wenninger became European champion in Offenbach am Main in stone pushing (10.41 m) and in weight throwing (heavyweight) and in August he was also German champion in stone pushing in Offenbach am Main in 1921 2nd place after Josef Straßberger at the European Weightlifting Championships . On August 7, 1921, he won the German weight throwing championship (19.46 m) in Plauen. Fritz Wenninger remained a member of the Zuffenhausen gymnastics club, but soon also belonged to the athletics department of the Stuttgarter Kickers and also competed for the Herkules Pirmasens athletics club . In 1922 he became German champion in the shot put in Duisburg (Athletics Club Herkules Pirmasens). He was the first German to surpass the 14 m mark in the shot put and won another German championship with a sensational 14.68 m. In addition, he was given a special honor when he set a Norwegian record that was highly regarded at the time in successful competitions in Stockholm , Gothenburg and Malmö . The year 1923 brought further highlights in Fritz Wenninger's sports life. In Frankfurt he became three-time German champion in stone throwing, weight throwing and the shot put (Athletics Club Herkules Pirmasens) and in the international athletics match Germany - Switzerland he won the shot put. On September 7, 1924, he won the European championships in discus throwing, shot put and ball throwing in Neunkirchen (Saar) . In the javelin throwing discipline, which is also taking place, he reached 2nd place. In the same year he won the German stone throwing championship in Mannheim . On August 2, 1925, he became German champion in stone pushing (heavyweight) at the German weightlifting championships. In 1928 he joined the Stuttgarter Kickers and was German hammer throw champion. This discipline remained the record holder with 47.34 m for a long time.

At the German lawn power sports championships in August 1930 in Regensburg , he achieved first prize in the pentathlon with 288 points. On August 23, 1931, he received the first prize in the pentathlon at the German championship for lawn power sports in Zuffenhausen. At the German lawn power sports championships on September 10, 1933 in Neuaubing , "Wenninger from Württemberg", as he was often called, won the hammer throw (heavyweight) and won the heavyweight three-way battle with 291 points. In addition to the above-mentioned European championships, he achieved a total of 15 German championship titles.

In 1932 he was registered on the German list of participants for the Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, the then owner of the Crailsheimer Hof in Stuttgart-West suffered a hand injury shortly before, which is why he had to cancel his participation.

In 1936 he took part in the Olympic Games in Berlin as a supervisor for German heavy athletes, especially wrestlers and weightlifters.

In 1940 Fritz Wenninger was drafted into the Navy in Wilhelmshaven . When he returned to Stuttgart in 1945, the Crailsheimer Hof, like large parts of downtown Stuttgart, was in ruins and he moved with his wife Bertha, née Bühler (married in 1933) and his daughter Lore (married in 1957 to Manfred Spieth) to Reusten in the Ammertal, where he took over the in-laws' Gasthof Lamm. At the end of the 1940s he personally removed an extension of the Wolfsberg in order to be able to build a ballroom. The broken high rock face behind the inn is still visible today.

Shortly after the banquet hall was built, he fell seriously ill. When he died in a clinic in Tübingen in 1951, sports comrades and friends from all over Germany and neighboring countries came to his funeral service.

European championships

• 1921, stone pushing, 1st place, 10.41 m, EM in Offenbach am Main, KSV Zuffenhausen
• 1921, weight throw, 1st place (heavyweight), EM in Offenbach am Main, KSV Zuffenhausen
• 1921, weightlifting 2nd place, after Josef Straßberger , EM in Offenbach am Main, KSV Zuffenhausen
• 1924, discus throw, 1st place, Neunkirchen (Saar) , KSV Zuffenhausen
• 1924, shot put, 1st place, Neunkirchen (Saar), KSV Zuffenhausen
• 1924, ball throw, 1st place in Neunkirchen (Saar), KSV Zuffenhausen
• 1924, javelin throw, 2nd place in Neunkirchen (Saar), KSV Zuffenhausen

swell

• Yearbook of German Athletics-Sport 1920, Sportverlag Alfons Berger, Stuttgart, page 38.
• 1891–1931, Forty Years of German Weightlifting, Yearbook of the German Athletic Sports Club from 1931, pages 55, 91, 104, 106, 109, 111, 113, 125.
• Reprint from No. 24 of the specialist magazine " Athletik ", 1936, Verlag Athletik, Stuttgart, page 2.
• Sports newspaper of the Stuttgarter Neue Tagblatt, March 30, 1936: "A Stuttgart man looks after Olympic heavy athletes - an honorable task for old master Fritz Wenninger."
• Sports magazine Der kleine Sportbericht , Stuttgart, November 7, 1951, page 6: “Former Fritz Wenninger suddenly died”.
• Heimat-Rundschau, daily newspaper for the northern parts of Stuttgart, May 23, 1961: Fritz Wenninger Memorial Sports Festival on the Schlotwiese.
• Südwest-Presse Tübingen, July 31, 1976: "Memory of a heavy athlete of stature: Wenninger from Württemberg".
• Original winning certificates and documents from the European and German championships.

Web links

• Outline of the history of lawn power sport with the history of stone throwing, European stone throwing champion Fritz Wenninger, 1921
• Fritz Wenninger in the list of German hammer throw champions
• Fritz Wenninger in the list of German champions in the shot put

Individual evidence

1. ^ 'In: Jahrbuch Deutscher Athletik-Sport 1920, Sportverlag Alfons Berger, Stuttgart , 1920, p. 38.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} In: Sports newspaper of the Stuttgarter Neues Tagblatt, Ein Stuttgarter looks after Olympic heavy athletes , 1936, p. 6
3. ↑ cf. Wikipedia biography Josef Straßberger (weightlifter)
4. ^ In: 1891–1931, Forty Years of German Strength Sports, Yearbook of the German Athletic Sports Club , 1931, pp. 106ff.
5. ↑ In: Heimat-Rundschau, daily newspaper for the northern parts of Stuttgart , 1961, p. 13.
6. ↑ In: Special print from No. 24 of the specialist journal "Athletik", 1936, Verlag Athletik, Stuttgart , 1936, p. 2.
7. ↑ In: 1891–1931, Forty Years of German Strength Sports, Yearbook of the German Athletic Sports Club , 1931, p. 104 ff.
8. ↑ ^{a b} In: Südwest-Presse , July 31, 1976, p. 11.