Hans-Georg Aschenbach

Hans-Georg Aschenbach
Hans-Georg Aschenbach at the GDR Ski Championships 1973
nation	GDR
birthday	October 25, 1951
place of birth	Brotterode ,  GDR
job	Sports soldier, sports teacher, doctor
Career
society	ASK forward Brotterode
status	resigned
End of career	1976
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 3 × 0 × 0 × SFWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 × DDRM medals 8 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold 1976 Innsbruck Normal hill  Nordic World Ski Championships gold 1974 Falun Normal hill gold 1974 Falun Large hill gold 1976 Innsbruck Normal hill  Ski flying world championships gold 1973 Oberstdorf singles GDR championships gold 1971 Normal hill gold 1973 Normal hill gold 1973 Large hill gold 1974 Normal hill gold 1974 Large hill gold 1975 Normal hill gold 1975 team gold 1976 Large hill gold 1976 team
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Four Hills Tournament	1. ( 1973/74 )
last change: February 26, 2012

Hans-Georg Aschenbach (born October 25, 1951 in Brotterode ) is a former German ski jumper . He was Olympic champion, world champion and won the Four Hills Tournament. After his escape in 1988, he uncovered compulsory state doping in competitive GDR sports .

Sporting successes

In 1969 Aschenbach became Junior European Champion, two years later, at the age of 20, he won his first GDR championship title in Johanngeorgenstadt . In 1972 he took part in the Olympic Winter Games in Sapporo and landed 31st on the normal hill. In 1973/1974, after victories in Oberstdorf and Innsbruck, he won the Four Hills Tournament , having previously achieved a personal best of 157 meters in Oberstdorf in 1973 Ski flying world champion. In 1974 he was elected World Champion of normal and large hill in Falun, Sweden, and athlete of the year in the GDR . The following year he was operated on on the meniscus. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Innsbruck he won gold on the normal hill and eighth on the large hill . He also won the ski flying week in Ironwood (USA) in 1976 , where he set a hill record of 154 meters. Then he ended his sports career.

Training and engagement in the sports system of the GDR

After his active career, he graduated as a sports teacher. He then studied at the Military Medical Section of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University in Greifswald . He returned to Thuringia in 1988 as a military doctor . At ASK Vorwärts Oberhof he was the medical supervisor of the ski jumpers and doctor of the GDR national team. He held the rank of lieutenant colonel in the National People's Army .

Aschenbach was a delegate at the SED party congress and a member of the GDR Peace Council . According to his own statements, this was done specifically in order to obtain permission from the state apparatus to travel to the West again after he had been noticed by the MfS because of “petty-bourgeois tendencies” and “character weaknesses”.

Escape to the Federal Republic of Germany

On August 27, 1988 Aschenbach used the participation of the national team in the mat jumping in Hinterzarten to break away to the west. In front of the team hotel he shook off his guard from the state security and sped off with a friend who had fled the GDR six months earlier and was waiting for him in his car.

He had to leave his family behind in the GDR. After his escape, he reported in Bild am Sonntag about compulsory doping in competitive sport in the GDR : Children and young people were being doped without them and their parents knowing. He also took Oral-Turinabol himself .

After his escape, Hans-Georg Aschenbach took a job as an orthopedist at the Mooswaldklinik in Freiburg im Breisgau with Armin Klümper . A few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall , his family received, through the mediation of the UN, permission to also move to Freiburg. Since 1993 he has been practicing as a resident doctor in Freiburg-Munzingen.

In 2012 he published under the title Your Hero. Your traitor. My life for competitive sport his memoirs.

successes

Hill records

place	country	Expanse	set up on	Record up
Falun	Sweden	90.0 m ( HS : 100 m)	February 16, 1974	March 10, 1981
Falun	Sweden	104.0 m ( HS : 134 m)	February 23, 1974	March 8, 1985

Awards

• In 2015 he was accepted into the Hall of Fame of German Sports of the Stiftung Deutsche Sporthilfe

Publications

• with Hendrik Rümenap: Your hero. Your traitor. My life for competitive sport. Mitteldeutscher Verlag, Halle 2012, ISBN 978-3-89812-892-6
  • Hans Georg Aschenbach: Inner conflict , review by Thomas Purschke in the Berliner Zeitung , March 14, 2012
  • Settlement with the GDR sport: Olympic champion Aschenbach: From hero to traitor , review by Friedhard Teuffel in Tagesspiegel , March 21, 2012

literature

• Klaus Gallinat, Olaf W. Reimann:  Aschenbach, Hans-Georg . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Hans-Georg Aschenbach in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Hans-Georg Aschenbach in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Hans-Georg Aschenbach in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Literature by and about Hans-Georg Aschenbach in the catalog of the German National Library
• Sports doctor Aschenbach: "I am not an opponent of competitive sports" in an interview with Günter and Philipp Breitbart in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , January 6, 2012
• Ski jumper Hans-Georg Aschenbach: "I want to know who is a friend and who is an enemy" , interview with Katharina Sperber in the Berliner Zeitung , January 14, 2012
• Oberhof-Stasi no snow from yesterday , Mainpost , September 20, 2004

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Escape of an Olympic Champion . In: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk . June 20, 2011
2. ↑ Christoph Becker: Hans-Georg Aschenbach: "Me here, and Miami Vice was on West TV" . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 26, 2011
3. ^ Friedhard Teuffel: Settlement with the GDR sport: Olympic champion Aschenbach: From hero to traitor . In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 21, 2012 (part 2)
4. ^ "GDR sport cannot be reduced to doping" , Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , February 2, 2010
5. ↑ Michael Voß: Ski jumping idol Aschenbach presented his book in Erfurt , Thüringer Allgemeine March 16, 2012
6. ↑ DOSB: Five other members in the "Hall of Fame of German Sports" ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. . September 7, 2015. Online at www.dosb.de. Retrieved September 20, 2015.