Gerhard Stock

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Gerhard Stöck (born July 28, 1911 in Kaiserswalde , Wirsitz district ; † March 29, 1985 in Hamburg ) was a German athlete and Olympic champion.

Athletic career

The son of a butcher grew up in Schönlanke and from 1930 studied philology at the universities of Königsberg , Halle (Saale) , Greifswald and Berlin . At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, the SC Charlottenburg athlete competed in two disciplines. After he had already won the bronze medal in the shot put competition on August 2, 1936 (Olympic champion: Hans Woellke ), he also took part in the javelin competition on August 6, 1936 . After the fourth attempt, only in fifth place, he threw the spear in the penultimate attempt to a distance of 71.84 m and thus won the gold medal with over one meter ahead of his favorite Finnish rivals Yrjö Nikkanen and Kalervo Toivonen . Stöck had responded skillfully to the adverse wind conditions and threw the spear particularly flat. He was also registered for the decathlon competition that took place shortly afterwards , but could not compete because of a knee injury that opened again.

Stöck was three times student world champion, in 1935 in javelin and pentathlon and in 1939 in the shot put.

At the German Championships in 1938, Stöck also won the gold medal in the javelin throw, after becoming runner-up five times between 1933 and 1937. In 1939, 1946 and 1947 Stöck also won silver. On August 28, 1935, Stöck threw 73.96 m in Helsinki in the German javelin throw record, which lasted for 19 years.

In 1935, 1936 and 1938 he was German runner-up behind Hans Woellke in the shot put. Stöck won further medals in this discipline in 1946 (bronze) and 1947 (silver).

In 1935, Stöck was German runner-up in the decathlon, despite zero points in the pole vault . With a height of 1.91 m, he had a competition weight of 84 kg.

In 1948, Stöck moved to Hamburger SV and ended his active career there.

Professional career

After his legal clerkship in 1938, Stöck became a teacher specializing in physical exercise, geography, geology and biology. He had already become a member of the SA in 1933 , from 1944 as Sturmbannführer and in 1937 also joined the NSDAP . After the war, between 1950 and 1975 he was the head of the sports department of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg. At the Olympic Games in 1956 and 1960 he was chief de mission of the all-German Olympic team , in 1964 its deputy. From 1986 to 2006, the Sports Department of the City of Hamburg awarded the Gerhard Stöck Prize to deserving athletes and clubs. The rugby women of FC St. Pauli returned the prize awarded to them in 2006 with a reference to Stöck's Nazi past. Thereafter, the award was tacitly discontinued.

His daughter Jutta Stöck was a successful German sprinter in the 1960s .

literature

  • 1936, The Olympic Games and National Socialism. Ed .: Reinhard Rürup , Topography of Terror Foundation, Argon Verlag Berlin, 1996, ISBN 978-3870243500 .
  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . Volume 2, German Athletics Promotion and Project Society, Darmstadt 2005.
  • Paul and Peter Busse: The careers of the Olympic champion Gerhard Stöck. In: Diethelm Blecking , Lorenz Peiffer (ed.) Sportsmen in the "Century of the Camps". Profiteers, resistors and victims. Göttingen: Die Werkstatt, 2012, pp. 116–122
  • Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ According to the church book of Kaiserswalde 1911, after the Second World War, Stöck always gave the wrong year of birth 1910.
  2. ↑ Kluge, 1997. pp. 885f
  3. ↑ DIED: Gerhard Stöck . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1985 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Kluge, 1997. S. 885f and Rürup, 1996. S. 208
  5. ↑ http://www.fcstpaulirugby.de/?p=2441
  6. ↑ Even the commemorative publication for the 60th anniversary of the Hamburger Sportbund ( Memento of the original from December 22nd, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (P. 13; PDF; 2.1 MB) in June 2008 suggests that the prize would still be awarded. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hamburger-sportbund.de
personal data
SURNAME Stöck, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and Olympic champion
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserswalde , district of Wirsitz
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 1985
Place of death Hamburg