Grete Winkel

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Grete Winkels (also Margarete Debus ) (born June 15, 1918 in Bad Godesberg ; † December 30, 2017 ) was a German athlete . She started for ASV Cologne .

Career

Grete Winkels was born in Bad Godesberg as the daughter of a middle-class family; her father worked for the Reichsbahn . She attended a girls' high school in her home town and completed in 1937, the school-leaving examination . During her school days she began to play sports on Godesberger TV , first as a gymnast , then as a track and field athlete . In the summer of 1935 she was discovered as a runner in a sighting competition (the "Unknown Olympic Fighter"). In 1936 she switched to the schoolgirls sports club Cologne (SSV), as she was training to be a chemical laboratory assistant in Cologne.

On June 21, 1936, as a member of a relay of the German national team (with Emmy Albus , Käthe Krauss and Marie Dollinger ) over 4 x 100 meters with 46.7 seconds , Winkels set a world record, which in another race was 46 , 5 seconds was improved; Winkels was the final runner. However, the record was less than seven weeks old: on August 8 in Berlin , Albus, Krauss, Dollinger and Ilse Dörffeldt were a tenth faster. She was nominated as a relay runner-up for the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, but was not used. Their special route, the 200 meters, was not on the program in Berlin. She later reported that she admired Jesse Owens for his running style. A trainer said to her: “But that's just a beautiful animal. Mrs. Winkels, that's not a human! "

As a sprinter , Grete Winkels was able to place five times in German championships:

  • 100 m:
  • 200 m:
    • 1939 champion (25.3 s)
    • 1940 champion (25.6 s)
    • 1941 runner-up (25.7 s) behind Dora Blask (25.6 s)

On July 28, 1940, she ran 25.1 s over 200 meters in Parma and came in second place on the annual world best list. She also appeared as a high jumper. Her best height: 1.54 m, jumped in 1941.

Grete Winkels strongly advocated equal rights for female athletes and turned against "traditional prejudices" such as that of Gausport teacher Heinz Debus, whom she married in 1942. With the support of Fritz Nottbrock , she campaigned for the financially weak SSV to be integrated into the ASV Cologne as a women's department: “And my husband was the biggest opponent who claimed that women do not belong in a men's club. They only disturb the club. "

During the Second World War , Grete Winkels studied chemistry in Bonn and received her doctorate. Her husband Heinz Debus, with whom she had a child, died in 1946 as a Soviet prisoner of war. In 1948 she married her brother-in-law and had two more children. In 1949 she founded the Bad Godesberg paint factory with a colleague . She worked as a trainer for many years and remained active in sports into old age. In 2013 she retired from business life and has lived in a nursing home ever since.

literature

  • Jürgen Müller: Fritz Nottbrock - Gustav Weinkötz - Grete Winkels. Cologne athletes during the Nazi era . In: Ansgar Molzberger / Stephan Wassong / Gabi Langen (eds.): Siegen für den Führer. The Cologne sport in the Nazi era (=  series of publications of the NS Documentation Center of the City of Cologne ). tape 20 . Emons, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95451-604-9 , pp. 211-217 .
  • Grete Winkels - portrait . In: Gabi Langen (Ed.): From the handstand to the marriage status. Women's sport in the Rhineland . Emons / Deutsches Sportmuseum , Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-924491-11-9 , p. 110-113 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Margarete Debus: Obituary notice. In: trauer.general-anzeiger-bonn.de. General-Anzeiger (Bonn) , January 13, 2018, accessed on June 16, 2018.
  2. ↑ Müller, Winkels , p. 211.
  3. ↑ Gerd Michalek: "It's just a beautiful animal" (archive). In: deutschlandfunk.de. July 30, 2011, accessed June 14, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b Müller, Winkels , p. 216.
  5. ↑ Years of development in color: Margarete Debus founded her Godesberg lacquer factory in 1949. In: general-anzeiger-bonn.de. January 15, 2016, accessed June 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Winkels, Grete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Debus, Grete; Debus, Margarete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Godesberg , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 2017