Halla
| Halla | |
| Race: | Hesse |
| Father: | Colonel |
| Mother: | Helene |
| Mother, father: | |
| Gender: | mare |
| Year of birth: | 1945 |
| Year of death: | 1979 |
| Country: | Germany |
| Colour: | brown |
| Stick measure: | 171 cm |
| Breeder: | Gustav Vierling |
| Owner: | Gustav Vierling |
| Equestrian: | Hans Günter Winkler |
| Halla medal table |
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 Germany
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| Olympic games | ||
| gold | 1956 | Stockholm, singles (under Hans Günter Winkler ) |
| gold | 1956 | Stockholm, team (under Hans Günter Winkler ) |
| gold | 1960 | Rome, team (under Hans Günter Winkler ) |
| World championships | ||
| gold | 1954 | Madrid, singles (under Hans Günter Winkler ) |
| European championships | ||
| bronze | 1958 | Aachen, singles (under Hans Günter Winkler ) |
Halla (* May 16, 1945 - May 19, 1979 ) was a Hessen mare . With Hans Günter Winkler in the saddle , Halla became world champion in 1954 and 1955, double Olympic champion in 1956 and again Olympic champion with the team in 1960.
Life
Halla was born on the Oberfeld state domain in Darmstadt , which was managed by Gustav Vierling . Her parents were Helene, a French prey horse of unknown origin, and the trotting stallion Colonel.
Prey horse Helene
As part of the campaign in the west was the summer of 1940 the members of a German artillery regiment, a saddled, stray fox -Stute hands. It was taken over by a department commander who named it Helene in memory of his fallen mare . After the French campaign, it was retired in Darmstadt and privately acquired by the commander, Colonel Hauck. Hauck fell in Russia in 1941, and his two sisters sold the animal to Gustav Vierling for 680 Reichsmarks. It was the only warm-blooded horse on the estate, and since the four children of quadrupeds wanted riding horses, it was decided to take care of foals. At the suggestion of Landstallmeister Dr. Thinker, Helene was paired with the well-known trotter stallion Oberst. She survived the air raid on Darmstadt with a burn on her croup and gave birth to the foal Witch on May 25, 1944 . The second foal was born on May 16, 1945. 15-year-old Ursula suggested the name Hella , but since one of the cousins was also called that, the name was changed to Halla .
First years
Halla was initially a racehorse. Because of her great jumping ability, she was retrained as an obstacle racehorse and finally discovered by the German Olympic Committee for Equestrianism . It should be used in the military , but was considered very difficult and changed riders several times. Despite great talent, she was unsuccessful. In 1951 the aspiring show jumper Hans Günter Winkler took over the mare. With him Halla won three Olympic golds and a total of 125 competitions.
1956 Olympic Games
It became a myth on June 17, 1956, when it carried the seriously injured Hans Günter Winkler flawlessly over the Olympic course in Stockholm in the decisive round . In order not to let the German team fall out of the ranking, he went into the second round with Halla despite great pain. As a result of pain-relieving and numbing syringes and suppositories - numerous sources name morphine - Winkler was so dazed that he had to be kept from falling asleep before starting with strong coffee and shaking him. In this state, Winkler was only able to bring Halla up to the obstacles, but could no longer transmit the usual signals to her by means of leg pressure. Winkler, who could hardly stay in the saddle, screamed in pain over the obstacles - and was the only rider to make no mistakes. At the last obstacle, the reporter Hans-Heinrich Isenbart enthusiastically shouted the legendary sentence: "And Halla laughs as if she knew what it was all about." With that, the German show jumpers had won gold in the team competition, and Winkler was Olympic champion in the individual competition despite this Injury.
successes
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Olympic games
- 1956 in Stockholm : Gold medal team
- 1956 in Stockholm : gold medal singles
- 1960 in Rome : gold medal team
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World Championship
- 1954 in Madrid : gold medal singles
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European Championship
- 1958 in Aachen : individual bronze medal
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German championships
- 1959 in Berlin : German champion
retirement
After she left the sport on October 25, 1960, she went into breeding and gave birth to eight foals, but they were not as successful as her. Halla, who spent her last years on the Oberfeld estate , died on May 19, 1979 at the old age of 34 on the farm where she was born.
Honors
In Warendorf , the seat of the German Equestrian Association (FN), a street was named after her and a life-size bronze sculpture was set up in front of the DOKR , which is supposed to remind of the “miracle mare”. Bronze sculptures in front of the Warendorfer Sparkasse branch also commemorate the famous animal and its descendants.
The artist Gunther Granget was commissioned to model a porcelain figure of the mare.
In honor of the mare, the name Halla was blocked by the FN (Fédération Équestre Nationale), d. This means that no competition horse may be registered under the name Halla.
Philatelic
On May 2, 2019, the first day of issue, Deutsche Post AG issued a supplementary postage stamp in the For sport series worth 70 + 30 euro cents. The brand carries the text "And Halla laughs as if she knew what it was about" . The additional proceeds from the sale of the brand will be donated to Deutsche Sporthilfe .
Trivia
In the film Ostwind Halla is named as the grandmother of the horse Ostwind, which gives the title. Subsequently also great-grandmother of the foal "Ora".
literature
- Hans Günter Winkler: Halla, my horses and me . FN-Verlag der Deutschen Reiterlichen Vereinigung, Warendorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-88542-430-7 (first published in 1958 as Meine Pferde und ich ).
- 1960: Halla. The story of her career. Cornet, Verden / Aller
Web links
- deutschlandfunk.de , calendar sheet , June 17, 2016, Eduard Hoffmann : Wonder mare Halla carries injured show jumper to victory
Individual evidence
- ↑ Herbert Plate : Scion of a prey horse: The famous Halla! The world and Olympic champion will be 30 years old this month. In: Das Tier , Volume 15, No. 5 (May 1975), p. 52 f.
- ↑ SMS horse news about Halla ( memento of the original from January 29, 2016 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. . Accessed January 29, 2016.
- ↑ DER SPIEGEL 29/2018, p. 117
