Hans Marr (ski jumper)
Hans Marr 
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 German Empire
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| birthday | October 7, 1914 |
| place of birth |
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| date of death | March 20, 1942 |
| Place of death |
Baryssau , Soviet Union.svg){kind=small}
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| End of career | 1939 |
Hans Marr (born October 7, 1914 in Oberhof , † March 20, 1942 in Baryssau ) was a German ski jumper .
Career
Marr, who like his father was a shoemaker, started skiing at an early age. After the first ski jump was built in his home town of Oberhof in 1928 , he was one of the first jumpers. He celebrated his first victory at the Thuringian Championship in 1930.
Marr was part of the German team at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In the individual competition on the normal hill, he reached 10th place as the best German. From 1937 he belonged to the 3rd Mountain Infantry Regiment 100 in Bad Reichenhall as a non-commissioned officer .
At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 1938 , Marr reached 18th place with jumps of 63 and 61 meters. A year later at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Zakopane in 1939 he reached 13th place.
On the Schanze des Friedens in 1941 he jumped the largest distance ever achieved there of 72 m. (Hill record)
Marr fell during the Second World War in the Russian campaign in 1942 as a member of Sergeant Troop Unit 2, Company Jagdkommando 1, in Belarus after skiing down a mine. He was buried in Shchituny without a name. The transfer to the Duchowschtschina war cemetery by the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge is planned; Hans Marr's personal data are entered in the memorial book there.
The Hans Marr Cup , a regional ski jumping cup competition, is held in Oberhof and the surrounding area in honor of Marr . In the 1950s it was planned to rename the youth ski jump at Wadeberg in Hans-Marr-Schanze , which was rejected in 1956.
literature
- Jens Jahn , Egon Theiner : Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping . 1st edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2004, ISBN 3-89784-099-5 .
Web links
- Hans Marr in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Hans Marr on The-Sports.org
- History of the Erfurt ski jumping hill with biography of Marrs
Individual evidence
- ↑ Egon Theiner: Encyclopedia of Ski Jumping , p. 154
- ↑ Hill record
- ^ Information from the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, Kassel, 2015
- ↑ Historical sports facility hike in Oberhof ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2013 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. , PDF on oberhof.de
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| SURNAME | Marr, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ski jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oberhof , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 1942 |
| Place of death | Baryssau , Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic , Soviet Union |