Hans Wiesenmayer

Hans Wiesenmayer (born December 17, 1924 in Jimbolia , Kingdom of Romania , † April 22, 2007 in Immenstaad on Lake Constance ) was a Romanian athlete . When he left for Germany in 1969, he obtained German citizenship.

Life

Wiesenmayer was the son of a Banat Swabian farming family. He attended the Catholic German boys' high school in Jimbolia and then the educational institution Banatia in Timișoara , where he graduated in 1943. In the early 1940s he won the Romanian championships in the decathlon twice and in 1943 became national champion in the long jump .

In January 1945 Hans Wiesenmayer was deported to the Soviet Union for forced labor with his father and sister . In 1947 he returned and began studying medicine in Timișoara. There he formed with Sidea, Gunesch, Baciu, Bonfert and others the handball eleven of the Societatea sportiva Politehnica club of the Timișoara Polytechnic University . He also belonged to the Electrica club , where he trained alongside athletes such as the Raica brothers, Hansi Söter , Luise Ernst and Jolán Balázs in athletics. In 1948 he was appointed to the Romanian national athletics team. In 1949 he switched to the Dinamo Bucharest sports club . In 1954 he finished his studies and worked as a sports medicine specialist in Bucharest for fifteen years .

Wiesenmayer took part in national and international competitions and won numerous titles in various disciplines of athletics. At the national level, he achieved 25 national championship titles in individual competitions and 15 in the relay race. He dominated the long jump for years and improved the Romanian national record several times, including in the 400-meter run and the triple jump . He started for Romania about 25 times in international competitions. At the international athletics championships he won once in the long jump and twice in the 400-meter run, he also won the long jump in international matches against Bulgaria , Belgium , Switzerland and the Soviet Union, and the 100-meter run against France in Bucharest , the long jump and the 4 x 100 meter relay and in Paris the 100 and 200 meter run , against Norway the 100 meter run, against the German Democratic Republic in Aue the 100, 200 and 400 -Meter run and the 4 x 100 meter relay. The competition in Aue in June 1957 was his most successful; Wiesenmayer won in all disciplines in which he competed. At the 1956 Balkan Games in Belgrade he was first in the 100 and 200-meter run and in the Balkan - Scandinavia competition in Athens in the same year he won the 400-meter run. He also dominated the 100-meter run at various international competitions in Sofia , Prague , Warsaw and Vienna .

In 1958 Wiesenmayer was excluded from the Dinamo club because of his so-called “unhealthy social origin” and “political unreliability” and banned from sports. He was later unofficially rehabilitated and appointed doctor of the Romanian Athletics Federation and coach of short distance runners. After a three-year forced break, he started in 1961 for the Bucharest sports club Progresul and again won the Romanian national championship title in the 400-meter run.

In 1969 Wiesenmayer moved from Romania to the Federal Republic of Germany . After training to become a specialist in anesthesia and intensive care medicine , he first worked as an assistant doctor , then as a senior physician and later as a senior physician representative. At the end of 1989 he retired.

Honors

• Maestru emerit al sportului , Honored Master of Sport , Romania
• Honorary citizen of Hatzfeld, 2005

Web links

• Hometown community Hatzfeld: Hans Wiesenmayer - one of the greats of Romanian athletics