Hans Woellke

Hans Woellke
Full name	Hans Otto Woellke
nation	German Empire
birthday	February 18, 1911
place of birth	Bischofsburg ,  German Empire
size	178 cm
Weight	105 kg
job	police officer
date of death	March 22, 1943
Place of death	Chatyn ,  Soviet Union
Career
discipline	Shot put
Best performance	16.60 m
society	Police SV Berlin
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × European championships 0 × 0 × 1 × German championships 7 × 1 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold Berlin 1936 16.20 m  European championships bronze Paris 1938 15.52 m  German championships gold Nuremberg 1934 15.24 m gold Berlin 1935 15.33 m gold Berlin 1936 15.86 m gold Berlin 1937 15.82 m gold Wroclaw 1938 15.63 m bronze Berlin 1939 15.84 m silver Berlin 1940 15.78 m gold Berlin 1941 15.14 m gold Berlin 1942 15.74 m

Hans Otto Woellke (* 18th February 1911 in Bishop's Castle , Warmia , East Prussia ; † 22. March 1943 at Khatyn , near Minsk , Belarus ) was a German athlete , who in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin , the shot put won (15.96 - 14.76 - 15.72 - 15.90 - 16.20 m - 14.98). The course of the competition was also shown in the Olympic film by Leni Riefenstahl .

Hans Woellke's title was the first German Olympic athletics victory in men's competitions. In addition, Hans Woellke won the bronze medal in the shot put at the European Athletics Championships in 1938 (15.45 - 15.19 - 15.52 m - 14.94 - 14.32 - 15.03). At the European Athletics Championships in 1934 he was eighth (14.67 m).

Hans Woellke started for the police SV Berlin and trained with Wilhelm Landmesser . During his competition time he was 1.78 m tall and 82 kg heavy. Hans Woellke was a police officer and was promoted from Revier Oberwachtmeister to police lieutenant for his Olympic victory.

During World War II he was a captain of the police in a regiment of the police in Guba (Belarus). After his death, as a result of a battle with partisans near Chatyn , he was promoted to Major in the Police by Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler . His grave was in the Minsk Memorial Cemetery (Moskauer Str., Grave 28, Row 22, West Side). On the north side of today's Moskauer Chaussee there is now a cemetery that was laid out in the times of the Soviet Union; Trees were planted on the south side of the Chaussee, the old location of the Wehrmacht cemetery. Graves are no longer recognizable there.

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
• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .

Web links

• Hans Woellke in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

1. ↑ The day of death is in the database SportsReference and in the Biographical Handbook of Klaus Amrhein, in Volker Kluge's Olympiachronik March 23 is listed (Volker Kluge: Die Chronik IS 884f).
2. ^ According to Volker Kluge (Die Chronik I, page 885) the promotion took place posthumously.
3. ↑ See minsk-old-new.com