Hans Fritsch (athlete)

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Hans Fritsch (right) at a ceremony for the Olympic sailing competitions (1972)

Hans Fritsch (born August 9, 1911 in Darkehmen in East Prussia ; † August 24, 1987 in Bremen ) was a German athlete and Olympic participant who was successful as a discus thrower in the 1930s .

Fritsch began his career with MTV Darkehmen, in 1931 he belonged to SV Darkehmen. After a year at the police school, he joined the police SV Berlin from 1933 to 1935 . In 1936 he was a lieutenant in the Luftnachrichtenkorps in Berlin-Kladow and worked for various Luftwaffe sports clubs with interruptions at Hannover 96 in 1939 and at MSV Wünsdorf until 1941 . After the Second World War, he joined the Oldenburger Turnerbund .

At the German championships in 1931 in the decathlon, Fritsch was second behind Hans-Heinrich Sievert . In 1935 and 1936 he took third place in the discus throw, and in 1937 he was fifth. From 1934 to 1939 he competed five times in the German national jersey. At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, he was the standard bearer of the German Olympic team. Fritsch reached the Olympic final in the discus throw and finished eleventh with 45.10 m in the preliminary fight.

During the war, Fritsch was a successful fighter pilot and was a member of the General Staff, which, contrary to strict orders , "defended the city of Oldenburg to the last man" and handed it over to the British Army without resistance. In 1945, the British military administration appointed him cultural department of the state of Oldenburg . As a major in the reserve and later as a lieutenant colonel in the Bundeswehr, he carried out several military exercises with the Luftwaffe intelligence force. He was the founder and long-time chairman of the Association of German Olympians and a board member of Olympians International . He was a founding member and the first secretary of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History . For his services to sport in Lower Saxony , he was included in the institute's gallery of honor for sport in Lower Saxony . Large parts of his estate are in the archives of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History .

Top performances

  • Discus throw: 49.02 m, June 21, 1936, Saarbrücken
  • Decathlon: 7636.375 points, 27/28. June 1931, Koenigsberg

literature

  • Klaus Amrhein: Biographical manual on the history of German athletics 1898–2005 . 2 volumes. Darmstadt 2005 published on German Athletics Promotion and Project Society.
  • Hans Fritsch: Witness to the surrender and the new beginning of culture in the Oldenburger Land: from the diaries of an intelligence officer and concert agent 1945–1948 . With a biographical sketch by Karl Veit Riedel. Published by the city of Oldenburg, cultural department. Holzberg, Oldenburg, 1987, ISBN 3-87358-280-5 .
  • Arnd Krüger : The standard bearer: Hans Fritsch (1911-1987) . In: Arnd Krüger & Bernd Wedemeyer (Hrsg.): Learn sports history from biographies . Festschrift for the 90th birthday of Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Henze. Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History , Hoya 2000, ISBN 3-932423-07-0 , pp. 252-271.

Individual evidence

  1. http://nish.de/index.php/archiv.html

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