Gisela Mauermayer

European Championships 1938, women's shot put: (left to right) Wanda Flakowicz (bronze), Mauermayer (silver), Hermine Schröder (gold), Helma Wessel (4th e)

Gisela Mauermayer (born November 24, 1913 in Munich ; † January 9, 1995 there ) was a German athlete who won the discus throw at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin (47.63 - 41.64 - 40.70 - 36.27 - 43.54 - 44.26 m).

She was also successful in the shot put and pentathlon : At the 4th Women's World Games in 1934 she won the shot put (13.67 m), came second in the discus throw (40.65 m) and won the pentathlon with a world record of 377 points Table back then (shot put: 13.44 m, long jump : 5.51 m, 100 m : 13.0 s, high jump : 1.52 m, javelin throw : 32.90 m). At the European Athletics Championships in 1938 she won the discus throw (43.20 - 43.58 - 42.94 - 40.29 - 40.11 - 44.80 m), and she was second in the shot put with 13.27 m.

Gisela Mauermayer began athletics in 1926, made her first international appearance at the Women's World Games in 1930 and was a world record holder in pentathlon and shot put as early as 1934 . Since both disciplines were not included in the program of the 1936 Olympic Games , she concentrated on the discus throw. In total she became twenty-times German champion: seven titles in the shot put (1934, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941 and 1942), nine in the discus throw (1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942), once in the sling ball throw (1934) and three in the pentathlon (1933, 1934 and 1938). In 1942 she ended her sports career. From 1938 until the end of the Second World War she was a physical education teacher at a Munich high school. Even if women's competition sport was not wanted in some parts of the NSDAP, successful female athletes were courted by the party.

Due to her Nazi past - she had become a member of the NSDAP at the age of 18 in 1932 in order to keep the Association for Women's Interests as first chairperson - she was not given a job as a teacher after the Second World War . She then studied biology, did her doctorate and was a member of the government from 1954 to 1975, head of the library of the Zoological State Collection in Munich.

Gisela Mauermayer started for TV Nymphenburg Munich and trained with Josef Zachmeier . During her competition time she was 1.72 m tall and weighed 70 kg.

In 1951, Gisela Mauermayer was one of the founders of the first women's committee of the German Sports Confederation , of which she was an active member until 1967. The NOK for Germany chose her as a personal member, she later appointed a council of elders, to which she belonged until the end of her life. At the constituent meeting of the Board of Directors of the German Sports Aid Foundation on July 12, 1967, the NOK named her as NOK representative.

Web links

• Gisela Mauermayer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Gisela Mauermayer. In: FemBio. Women's biography research (with references and citations).
• Mevert, Friedrich: Enthusiastic all-rounder: On the 100th birthday of Gisela Mauermayer . DOSB press No. 46/12. November 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/biographie/gisela-mauermayer/
2. ↑ Michaela Czech: Women and Sport in National Socialist Germany: An investigation into the reality of female sport in a patriarchal system of rule. (= Articles for Sport and Society, Volume 7). Tischler, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-922654-37-1 .
3. ↑ Topic history trail on the history of the women's movement in Munich, 2012, p. 32
4. ^ Mevert, Friedrich: Enthusiastic multi-fighter: For the 100th birthday of Gisela Mauermayer . DOSB press No. 46/12. November 2013  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.