Hanns Braun (athlete)

Hanns Braun
Hanns Braun (2nd from the right) came second in the finish line over the 400 meters in 1912
Full name	Johannes Braun
nation	German Empire
birthday	October 26, 1886
place of birth	Munich or Wernfels ,  German Empire
size	180 cm
Weight	68 kg
date of death	October 9, 1918
Place of death	Croix-Fonsomme ,  France
Career
discipline	Sprint / middle distance run
society	Munich SC
End of career	1912
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 2 × 1 ×
Olympic games silver London 1908 Olympic relay bronze London 1908 800 m silver Stockholm 1912 400 m

Johannes "Hanns" Braun (born October 26, 1886 in Munich or Wernfels (depending on the source); † October 9, 1918 near Croix-Fonsomme north of Saint-Quentin , France ) was a German sculptor and athlete who participated in the 1908 Olympic Games in London and in 1912 in Stockholm was successful and in 1909 , 1910 and 1912German champion over the 400 meters. Braun, who set a world record and 15 German records between 1907 and 1912, was inducted into the Hall of Fame of German Sports in 2008.

Life

Hanns Braun was the sixth child of the battle painter Louis Braun , who worked in Munich, and his wife Maria, born in Zopfingen, Switzerland. Bürger, born in Munich, where he attended the Maximiliansgymnasium from 1896 after attending elementary school and left the 7th grade in the summer of 1905.

Braun initially turned to art. In October 1906 he entered the sculpture class of the professor of Christian art, Sebastian Schmitt (1858–1942), at the Munich Art Academy. His further artistic training has not been passed on in detail; He presumably also studied architecture in Berlin.

Since his father had a weakness for sport, he registered his son in 1902 with the then largest sports club in Munich, the Münchner SC . As the right wing of the soccer department of the MSC, he moved to their soccer department when they joined FC Bayern Munich on June 1, 1906 - while maintaining the independence and the designation "FA Bayern im Münchner SC". After setting two German records in Leipzig for the Olympic Games, he took part in the 1908 Olympic Games in London at the age of 22 and won the bronze medal in the 800 m medium-distance run . In the " Olympic Relay ", which has not run since then - together with Arthur Hoffmann , Hans Eicke and Otto Trieloff - he finished second behind the US team and thus won the silver medal . He also started in the 1,500 meter run .

At the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 , he won the silver medal in the 400-meter run. He was the favorite over 800 meters, but finished sixth. The then thirty-year-old sports official Carl Diem wrote: “Hanns Braun deserves a special discussion here. Our Munich sportsman was considered invincible before Stockholm, even in large American sports circles. The history of the last few weeks has corrected this opinion. It remains to be seen whether it is right or not. In any case, Braun's defeats are typical evidence of the power of the sporting principle of selection, which only ever blossoms when the broad underclass of the good average and the good class above is present. ”Hanns Braun also took part in the 4 times -400 meter relay participated, but retired in the 2nd heat .

Over the 400 meters he was three times German champion. He was also the English champion over 880 yards three times. Such competitions abroad meant a lot of time and were accordingly rare, travel was expensive and the athletes were subject to strict amateur status.

After the Olympic Games in Stockholm he devoted himself to his profession as an academic sculptor. He achieved a high reputation in Munich society. He was also a so-called "external member" of the Berliner Sport-Club (BSC).

Braun entered the First World War in 1914 . He moved in with the Infantry Leib Regiment (Munich). Later he volunteered for the air force and completed his training as a pilot. In 1916 he was assigned to the newly established Jagdstaffel 34 b . On October 9, 1918, he was commissioned to cover the activities of the German troops. The mission took him and two comrades from his squadron to the Belgian border - where the Cambrai railway junction is, right on the Scheldt . It is said to have been a slightly hazy but beautiful autumn day. During the flight - one week before his 33rd birthday and three weeks before Compiégne signed the armistice - the aircraft of his comrade, NCO Ulm, from his own Fighter Squadron 34b collided at 11.00 a.m. He found his final resting place in the German military cemetery Vladslo in Belgium , grave location: Block 3, grave 2170.

Honors and souvenirs

The Southern German Athletics Association founded the Hanns-Braun-Gedächtnis-Preis in 1921 , which was awarded until 1935. From 1935 to the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, the prize was awarded by the “Reichsfachamt Athletics” at the national level. The statue, which was lost in the chaos of war, has been awarded again since 1951 by the German Athletics Association as an annual touring prize for special achievements and exceptional merits in management positions in memory of the exceptional athlete; it is the highest award given by the German Athletics Association for “special achievements and extraordinary merits in the management of German athletics” (quote).

In the period from 1941 to 1945 , today's municipal stadium on Grünwalder Strasse in Munich was known as the Städtische Hanns-Braun-Kampfbahn . The Hanns-Braun-Brücke in the Olympic Park in Munich was named after him. In the Olympiapark Berlin , Hanns-Braun-Straße was named after him and is now the seat of the Hertha BSC office and the organizing committee for the 2009 World Athletics Championships . In addition, there has been the Hanns-Braun-Stadion , an athletics sports field on Hanns-Braun-Strasse , which was also named after him, since the 1936 Olympic Games .

Web links

• Hanns Braun in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait, dates and biography of Hanns Braun in the Hall of Fame of German Sports
• From the foundation to 1920 - extract from the club's history on muenchner-sportclub.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brauns Rekorde ( Memento of the original from August 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on germanroadraces.de. 
2. ^ Annual report 1904/05, Maximiliansgymnasium Munich, archive.
3. ↑ matriculation 1884-1920: 03177 Hans Braun [1] , Munich, Academy DBK
4. ↑ Braun's transfer to FA Bayern in Münchner SC on successfans.com.
5. ↑ Honor roll (of FC Bayern Munich) of the members who died in World War I on successfans.com.
6. ↑ Hanns Braun on frontflieger.de.
7. ↑ Braun on the roll of honor for members who died in World War I on successfans.com.
8. ↑ Hanns Braun ( Memento from August 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on germanroadraces.de.

literature

• Illustrated catalog of the XI. international art exhibition Munich 1913, No. 459, 460, 460a.
• Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.
• Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1849 to 1918 . Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012, pp. 430–434 (Fig.). ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 .