Hans Rösch

Hans Rösch
nation	Germany
birthday	December 24, 1914
place of birth	Munich ,  Germany
Career
discipline	Two, four
position	pilot
society	SC Rießersee
status	resigned
Medal table
World championships 1 × 2 × 1 ×
Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships bronze 1953 Garmisch-Partenkirchen four silver 1954 Cortina d'Ampezzo four gold 1958 Garmisch-Partenkirchen four silver 1960 Cortina d'Ampezzo four

Hans Rösch (born December 24, 1914 in Munich ; † after 1962 ) is a former German bobsleigh driver .

However, he began his sports career in the 1930s as a motorcycle racing driver and started in 1936 at the Feldberg race in the Taunus. After the Second World War he came back to this place of work, this time as a bobsleigh driver. In 1956, Hans Rösch became German four-man bobsleigh champion with the team Sylvester Wackerle , Alfred Hammer and J. Hummerl on a bobsled run that no longer exists between the Großer Feldberg and Oberreifenberg .

In 1958 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen he was world champion in the four-man bobsleigh and received the silver laurel leaf from the Federal President on September 12, 1959 with his team (Walter Haller, Alfred Hammer and Theo Bauer) .

successes

German championships

• 1955:

Two-man bobsleigh: 1. Hans Rösch / Hans “Dix” Terne

Four- man bobsleigh: 1st Rösch / Terne / Michael Pössinger / Max Esprester

• 1956:

Four- man bobsleigh: 1st Rösch / Sylvester Wackerle / Alfred Hammer / J. Hummerl

• 1960:

Four-man bobsleigh: 1st Rösch / Walter Haller / Hammer / Theodor Bauer

World championships

• 1953:

Four-man bobsleigh: 3rd Rösch / Pössinger / Terne / Wackerle

• 1954:

Four-man bobsleigh: 2nd Rösch / Pössinger / Terne / Wackerle

• 1958:

Four-man bobsleigh: 1st Rösch / Hammer / Bauer / Haller

• 1960:

Four- man bobsleigh: 2nd Rösch / Hammer / Bauer / Alfred Kandbinder

Olympic games

• 1956:

Two-man bobsleigh: 9th Rösch / Lorenz Nieberl

Four-man bobsleigh: 6th Rösch / Nieberl / Pössinger / Wackerle

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Rösch on munzinger.de
2. ↑ Chronicle - Bayerischer Bob- und Schlittensportverband eV 1948–1998. Bayerischer Bob- und Schlittensportverband eV, p. 9 , accessed on January 26, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Chronicle - Bayerischer Bob- und Schlittensportverband eV 1948–1998. Bayerischer Bob- und Schlittensportverband eV, p. 7 , accessed on January 26, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Information given by the Federal Government to the Bundestag on September 29, 1973 - Printed matter 7/1040 - Annex 3, pages 54 ff., Page 56

Web links

• Hans Rösch in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Newsreel with Rösch 2nd place at the 1954 Bobsleigh World Cup, bundesarchiv.de