Harry Glass

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Harry Glaß in Altenberg, 1956

Harry Glaß in Altenberg, 1956

nation Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic
birthday October 11, 1930
place of birth Klingenthal ,  German EmpireGerman EmpireGerman Empire 
date of death December 14, 1997
Place of death Rodewisch ,  GermanyGermanyGermany 
Career
society SC structure / SC Dynamo Klingenthal
Trainer Hans Renner
National squad since 1953
End of career 1962
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
National medals 4 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo
GDR championships
gold 1954 Oberhof
gold 1955 Oberhof
gold 1956 Oberhof
bronze 1957 Brotterode
gold 1958 Altenberg
silver 1959 Lauscha
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
 Four Hills Tournament 5. ( Four Hills Tournament 1956/57 )
 

Harry Glaß (born October 11, 1930 in Klingenthal / Sa. , † December 14, 1997 in Rodewisch ) was a German ski jumper . He won bronze in ski jumping at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, the first Olympic medal for the GDR. In addition to Helmut Recknagel and Werner Lesser , he was one of the first three ski jumpers in the GDR to jump among the world's best.

Life

The son of a shoemaker grew up in Klingenthal in Vogtland. After his parents divorced, Glaß went to Wasserburg am Inn with his father as a teenager, probably during the Second World War . When he had a fatal accident there, Glaß returned to his homeland in 1946, which was now in the Soviet occupation zone. There he also learned the trade of shoemaker in Klingenthal from 1946 to 1950. From 1950 he worked as a tusk in uranium mining at SDAG Wismut , and from 1954 as a shooting master . Initially a soccer player, he started from 1952 parallel with ski jumping training at what was then BSG Wismut Klingenthal. Later he completed a sports degree.

In 1956, when he was taken over by SC Dynamo Klingenthal, he became a member of the German border police, which at that time was subordinate to the Ministry of the Interior. When he left the DGP, he carried the rank of first lieutenant. As an employee of the SC Dynamo, he was a member of the German People's Police , his last rank was major.

Sports career

First beginnings

Glaß celebrated its first success in the winter of 1952. At the Saxon winter sports championships, he won the bronze medal in the special jumping event on the Altenberger Schanze des Friedens with a width of 48.5 meters behind national champion Herbert Leonhardt and second-placed Siegmund Leonhardt . With the III. Winter sports championships of the GDR, which took place in Oberhof at the end of January / beginning of February 1952, were not enough for Glaß for a podium place. However, he was able to win two comparison competitions of the so-called GDR core team in Mühlleithen and Schierke . Members of this core team included Werner Lesser , Herbert Queck and the still active Hans Renner . Glaß passed a first major test in 1953 at the 35th German Nordic Ski Championships , in which a delegation with GDR athletes took part for the first time. On the Murgtalschanze the Klingenthaler achieved a 5th place as the best GDR representative. At the shortly thereafter GDR championships, which took place for the special jumpers in Oberwiesenthal , Glaß missed another medal. As a result, he was not nominated for the Academic Winter Games, at which Werner Lesser, Kurt Meinel and Siegmund Leonhardt represented the GDR in ski jumping. Nevertheless, Glaß still belonged to the so-called GDR core team and, after good performance at the beginning of 1954, was nominated for the Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun , Sweden , where GDR athletes were allowed to compete for the first time. He was officially listed as an athlete for SV Wismut. For example, Glaß won the New Year's competition in 1954 in Oberhof. It is worth mentioning his jumping style with folded arms, which was his unique selling point in top sport at the time and was unusual until the end of the 1960s. At the world championship, however, Glaß only achieved a 64th place out of 69 participants in the special jump because after a good first run he reached into the snow on the second jump. Overall, the performance of the GDR special jumpers with a 49th place for Franz Renner and a 53rd place for Werner Lesser as further representatives was rather disappointing. A week after the World Cup, however, Glaß won the GDR championships in ski jumping in Oberhof, his first GDR championship title. After the disappointment at the Nordic and Alpine World Championships in Sweden, the German Sports Committee decided in the summer of 1954 to focus on winter sports. This went hand in hand with the establishment of sports clubs, which were founded in autumn 1954. The sports association Aufbau founded SC Aufbau Magdeburg with a focus on winter sports in Klingenthal. A short time later, in January 1955 at the latest, this winter sports focus was published independently in the press under the name SC Aufbau Klingenthal. Harry Glaß also switched to this sports club, where the athletes received not only proper training conditions but also a monthly salary. In addition, Hans Renner, who had retired from active ski jumping, was appointed head coach of the special jumpers and trained the top jumpers of the GDR in international comparisons, to which of course Harry Glaß belonged in addition to Werner Lesser.

First successes

In the following season, 1955, Glaß was able to defend his GDR championship title. Behind him came the up-and-coming, only 17-year-old Helmut Recknagel , who was personally trained by Hans Renner in Zella-Mehlis , in second place. The first real warning sign after the botched World Championship was Glaß at the Oberstdorf Ski Flying Week at the end of February 1955. In an international top field, won by the Finnish four hills tournament winner Hemmo Silvennoinen , he finished fifth in the overall standings. After the GDR jumpers had not yet competed in the pre-Olympic competitions in Cortina, the invitation to the ski flying week was the GDR jumpers' first appearance in western countries. Werner Lesser confirmed the good performance of the Renner protégés with 10th place overall. Only youngster Recknagel fell off a bit. In general, the GDR jumpers under the coach Hans Renner made enormous progress in the 1955 season. This was also recognized by the GDR government. In October 1955 Harry Glaß and Werner Lesser received the title of Masters of Sports .

Olympic precious metal

The following season 1955/56 culminated with the Winter Olympics in February 1956 in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy . It was clear that for the first time GDR athletes could take part in the games in an all-German team. However, domestic German elimination competitions decided on the composition of the Olympic squad. For ski jumping, a competition in Oberhof on December 28, 1955 and the first three competitions of the Four Hills Tournament 1955/56 were planned. This also means the first participation of jumpers from the GDR in this competition. In Oberhof, Glaß was second behind Max Bolkart . At the Four Hills Tournament, however, now in competition with the world's best, Glaß surprised the experts. A third place at the start in Oberstdorf was followed by two second places in Garmisch and Innsbruck. With that he led the overall standings after three jumping competitions. In the domestic German ranking he was also ahead of Max Bolkart. But because they wanted to train before the Olympics, the Olympic squad who had been nominated in Innsbruck left and did not take part in the jumping in Bischofshofen. Glaß was thus denied an overall victory in the later so prestigious Four Hills Tournament. After Innsbruck, the all-German selection of jumpers traveled to the Olympic site in Cortina, where the Campari Cup took place on January 8, 1956. In the absence of the Soviet, Finnish and Norwegian athletes, Glaß won this jumping on what was then the world's most modern ski jump, the Trampolina Italia , which was only inaugurated on December 8, 1955 . This made him the best-performing German ski jumper before the Olympic Games.

On January 20, 1956, Glaß left Berlin with his teammate Werner Lesser and coach Hans Renner. Unlike, for example, the cross-country skiers from the GDR who arrived in Cortina on the following Saturday, January 21, the ski jumpers were still training in Andermatt, Switzerland . During the first training session on the Olympic hill, Glaß showed with a width of 84 m that he was one of the broader favorites alongside the Finns.

The ski jumping was held on the last day of the Games, on February 5, 1956.. After the training on site, Glaß, Werner Lesser, Max Bolkart and Josef Kneisl were nominated for the competition. There had been a lot of discussions in advance, especially about Werner Lesser's personalities, because the Thuringian was originally only nominated as a substitute despite his strong results. The Thuringian was ultimately nominated for the competition due to an injury to the planned Sepp Weiler but also to Lesser's training performance. Harry Glaß caused a big surprise after the first round with the lead through a jump of 83.5 m. With 118.5 points, he was half a point ahead of Finn Aulis Kallakorpi and his compatriot Antti Hyvärinen , who, like Max Bolkart, took third place with 115 points. However, Glaß could not hold this position in the second round. Until then, the Hyvärinen, who had not been seen as a favorite for the title, managed a stylistically clean jump of 84 m, which was rated with the highest number of points of 119.5 for the day. Glass did not want to fall and jumped 80.5 m, for which he received 113.5 points. Kallakorpi jumping right after him jumped just as far, but with 114.5 points received one point more than Glaß. With that, the two Finns moved ahead of the Klingenthaler, even though Glaß was only half a point behind the silver rank. Yet Harry Glass had achieved something historical. With the bronze medal in ski jumping, he won the first Olympic medal for a German ski jumper and at the same time for an athlete from the GDR. Max Bolkart with fourth place and Werner Lesser with eighth completed the good German result, only Josef Kneisl with 26th place fell short of expectations.

After the Olympic Games, Glaß initially competed in a jumping in St. Moritz , Switzerland , which he also won. Then a part of the jumping elite found themselves in Czechoslovakia, where they jumped on three jumps during a week of jumping. Glaß took 2nd place in Vysoke nad Jizerou and 3rd in Špindlerův Mlýn . Teammate Werner Lesser, who won the jumping in Vysoke nad Jizerou, was always there. It was not until February 13, 1956, a good week after jumping in Cortina, that Glaß set foot on home soil again. At a reception on what was then Stalinplatz in Klingenthal in front of 4,000 spectators, Glaß received, among other things, a television set and a small-film projector as a prizes for his success.

After his Olympic medal, ski jumping was eagerly awaited at the VII GDR winter sports championships in Oberhof. On the Thuringian hill, Glaß relegated his teammate Werner Lesser to second place in his third GDR championship title with a new hill record of 77 m. Third was Helmut Recknagel. In the period that followed, Glaß took part in several internationally well-staffed ski jumping competitions in the end of the season, including ski flying on the Kulm (March 8-11) or the ski games in Zakopane , Poland , where he also took top places. (On the first day of competition on the Kulm, he was second behind Werner Lesser). However, Glaß was able to win the last competition of the Olympic season on the local Vogtlandschanze in Klingenthal ahead of his teammate and long-term competitor Werner Lesser. The achievements of the two ski jumpers were again recognized by the state after this successful Olympic season. Glaß and Lesser received the title of Honored Master of Sport on August 2, 1956 .

A rival grows up

The post-Olympic season 1956/57 started with a first competition in Oberwiesenthal on December 27, 1956. This should also serve as the first assessment of the situation for the subsequent Four Hills Tournament . Glass came in 14th place. Then it went to Oberstdorf, for the first competition of the Four Hills Tournament. Glaß took eighth place. This was followed by a rather disappointing 24th place in Innsbruck, again an eighth place in Garmisch and finally a seventh place in Bischofshofen. In the end, that meant fifth place in the overall ranking on Glaß's first full tour, one place behind team-mate and long-term rival Werner Lesser. As a result, Glaß took part in various internationally well-staffed jumping competitions, in which he sometimes achieved very good placements. At the end of February 1957, he finished third in Kouvola, Finland , and fourth at the legendary ski games on Holmenkollen and the ski flying week in Planica . In mid-March 1957 he won the renowned jumping on the Feldbergschanze with an unprecedented grade of 59.5 out of 60 possible points. Glaß also won the internationally well-attended memorial in Zakopane at the end of the season. In the meantime, however, he had grown up with a serious competitor in the GDR selection, the young Helmut Recknagel. Not yet nominated for the 1956 Olympic Games, 1957 was the year of his rise to the top of the world. At the Four Hills Tournament he had already indicated his capabilities with a 10th place in the overall ranking. At the GDR championships he came behind Werner Lesser, but ahead of Harry Glaß on the silver rank. The highlight of the season, however, was Recknagel's win on Holmenkollen. No Central European had succeeded in doing this before. The victory at the ski flying week in Planica rounded off his breakthrough year. This meant that Glaß was no longer the undisputed top jumper in the GDR selection.

In Recknagel's shadow

From left: Helmut Recknagel, Harry Glaß and Werner Lesser, the GDR top trio, at Glaß's last GDR championship title in Altenberg

In the World Cup season, Glaß found it difficult to get going. If you could see his performance in the well-filled Christmas jumping competition in Oberhof in December 1957 with 13th place as a slip, the performance in the first half of the Four Hills Tournament was out of the question for a jumper in his class. Due to unsteady jumps, the Klingenthaler took 55th place at the beginning in Oberstdorf and 23rd place in the New Year's event in Garmisch, although he jumped the furthest on the Olympic hill with 87 and 86.5 m. In Innsbruck Glaß was able to show his class again for the first time and with a 5th place indicated that he was still to be expected. At the Bergisel he was only separated by one point from a podium place. He was able to prove this good form again in Bischofshofen at the end of the tour. Behind the overall tour winner Helmut Recknagel, who won the tour for the first time after a weak start in an unprecedented race to catch up, Glaß took second place in the daily standings. In the overall ranking, however, this was only enough for 18th place. From then on Glaß showed ascending form. In Kouvela he was fifth in strong Scandinavian competition, at the GDR championships he was able to beat the title favorite Helmut Recknagel, who had been weakened by flu, and won his fourth and last GDR championship title. With that, Glaß was set for the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, Finland . At the world championships, the Finn Juhani Kärkinen was able to win the competition in front of over 100,000 spectators and thus crown himself world champion. Behind them, however, a three-way battle broke out between the Finn Ensio Hyytiä , Helmut Recknagel and Glaß, in which the Klingenthaler finally took the ungrateful fourth place. Although the performance of the Renner protégés with 3rd, 4th and 8th place from Werner Lesser was more than respectable, but according to Recknagel's biographical statements Harry Glaß was inconsolable about the missed medal. The 1958 Holmenkollenspiele were also more than unfortunate. After the first round, Glaß was in second place and after the fall of the world champion Kärkinen, who had up to then been first placed, he could have gone down in history as the successor to Helmut Recknagel as the winner from Holmenkollen. But after a distance of a very good 69.5 m, Glaß fell 10 m into the snow after landing and only took 40th place. Recknagel, however, came second. Things didn't go well for Glaß at the Oberstdorf ski flying week. While Recknagel was able to win the competition, Glaß only achieved 17th place in the overall ranking of all three jumping days due to a fall. Nevertheless, the season came to a conciliatory end. Glaß was able to win an internationally strong jumping competition in Klingenthal, in Oberwiesenthal when jumping for the challenge cup of the Karl-Marx-Städter Volksstimme he only had to admit defeat to Recknagel. The finally strong season of the Renner protégés was also honored by the GDR government on June 12, 1958. Walter Ulbricht honored Lesser, Recknagel, Glaß and their selection trainer Hans Renner with the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze . In winter sports, the jumping trio was the flagship of the GDR at that time.

The winter sports season 1958/59 started unpleasant for Glaß. In the summer of 1958 he broke his ankle playing volleyball and so he had to watch the first comparative competitions in late autumn 1958. At the Christmas competition in Oberwiesenthal, which also saw top international class at the start with the Finns Niilo Halonen and World Champion Kärkinen, Glaß showed an attractive result for the first time with third place. Of course, the Klingenthaler was back in the squad for the Four Hills Tournament . Glaß got off to a promising start with 8th place in Oberstdorf, while Helmut Recknagel won the jumping. After the New Year's competition, Glaß had to bury all dreams of a podium finish on the tour. After the first round, still in 8th place, he fell in the second round and finished the competition in 31st place. While Recknagel finally celebrated his second Tourness victory, Glaß came in tenth place in the overall ranking after 4th place in Innsbruck and 5th place in Bischofshofen. The inauguration of the Great Aschbergschanze on February 1st, 1959 in Glaß'Heimat Klingenthal was an important event in the season with few highlights. Again, it was emblematic that after the rather unsuccessful consecration jump in the subsequent ski jumping competition, the Klingenthaler took the thankless fourth place, while Recknagel won the competition once more. Even at the GDR championships on the new Marktiegelschanze in Lauscha , Thuringia , Glaß could not defeat the high-flyer from Steinbach-Hallenberg . At this point Glaß could not have known that the silver medal would be his last championship medal. After the championships, a pre-Olympic competition on the ski jumping facility in Squaw Valley should be the next meeting of the world's elite in ski jumping. However, the US State Department refused entry to the GDR delegation because it was also home to SED members, including the Recknagel, Lesser, and Glaß trio of jumpers. The traditional jumping on Holmenkollen was the next international test of strength for the GDR athletes. In this, Glaß was able to take an excellent 7th place and place himself in front of Recknagel, who was only able to achieve 29th place due to a fall in the 1st round. At the ski flying week on the Kulm, Recknagel was again ahead of Glaß, the Thuringian in 2nd place, the Saxon in 7th place. The season was concluded with two internationally well-attended competitions in Klingenthal and Oberwiesenthal, the latter again for the Free Press Cup. In both competitions, Glaß stood on the podium again.

End of career

The 1959/60 season began with political upheavals for the GDR ski jumpers. If in February 1959 the entry ban to Squaw Valley had already got you caught in the maelstrom of political entanglements, it was now the domestic German flag dispute that should quickly affect the Renner protégés. The political skirmish began when the federal government refused to allow GDR athletes to start wearing the GDR state emblem on their sportswear, which was introduced on October 1, 1959, or to raise the GDR flag at international sporting events in West Germany. Ultimately, it was carried out on the athletes' backs. Specifically, it was said that the Four Hills Tournament in Oberstdorf and Garmisch took place without the GDR jumpers around the two-time tournament winner Recknagel. Instead, a two-day competition event was rushed out of the ground in Oberwiesenthal, in which the jumpers from the CSSR and the Soviet Union, who also did not start on the German jumps, took part. For the first time in a long time, Glaß was able to beat Recknagel, who was seven years his junior, once again on both days of jumping, the Klingenthaler was in good shape. Then the GDR jumpers traveled to Innsbruck to prepare for the third competition of the Four Hills Tournament on Bergisel. After all, there was still an Olympic qualification pending, for which you needed jumping practice. Then came the shock in Innsbruck: during the first training jump on New Year's Day in 1960, Glaß had a serious fall after a 72 m jump in the icy run and suffered a fracture of his right ankle. He was operated on in Innsbruck. This was the second time Glaß had participated in the Olympics. On January 14, 1960, Glaß was transferred to the Berlin Charité , where he could watch Recknagel's Olympic victory in Squaw Valley from his hospital bed. Instead, the Oberwiesenthaler Veit Keuert qualified, who achieved a remarkable 12th place on the Olympic hill as a young man. Glaß's fate itself took up a large part of the media preparation for the Winter Olympics in the GDR media, as the successful ski jumpers were among the most popular athletes in the GDR at that time. Sun visited, among others, Walter Ulbricht and the former Politburo member Erich Honecker on 22 January 1960 the Klingenthaler at the bedside. Shortly before his departure for the Olympic Games, teammate Helmut Recknagel also stopped by Glaß at the Charite, the pictures went through the daily newspapers of the GDR. At the end of February Glaß could be released and for the 1960/61 season he started his training again as planned. He was originally registered for the Oberwiesenthaler Christmas jumping competition on December 26, 1960, then his start was withdrawn. Shortly thereafter, however, Glaß stood on the Aschbergschanze as a much-acclaimed jump-in with a 60m set. This approach was of course not enough for a nomination for the following Four Hills Tournament , which started again in Oberstdorf and Garmisch after the quarrels of the previous year. While Recknagel won the tour for the third time, Glaß tried desperately at home to get back to jumping. In the so-called Thuringian Three Hills Tournament, Glaß competed for the first time in the second competition in Schmiedefeld . As expected, the big favorite Recknagel won, but the real star of the day was Glaß, who achieved a remarkable fifth place with jumps of 71 and 71 m, in competition with all of the top GDR jumpers. The rising performance was enough for the DSLV and selection trainer Hans Renner to send Glaß to an international competition for the first time at the end of January 1961, to the International Swiss Jumper Week. At the competitions in Unterwasser , St. Moritz, Arosa and Le Locle , the Klingenthaler was able to stand out again from some well-known competitors such as the Finns Eino Kirjonen , Antero Immonen or Niilo Halonen , in Unterwasser he achieved his best placement with 11th place. As the best German jumper, Glaß was able to claim this placement in the overall tour even after completing the four competitions. Ultimately, however, the increasing exposure was probably too much, so that on February 21, 1961, the GDR daily newspaper reported another forced break due to severe pain in the foot. On the advice of the doctors, Glaß had decided to have another operation. By then, the Saxon had completed over 200 jumps since the fall of 1960. After his operation in April 1961, during which a cartilage was removed from the right ankle, Glaß actually started again with jumping training in autumn 1961. The DSLV management also took advantage of Glas's popularity to send him to Sweden with Werner Lesser at the end of October 1961, where the first plastic covered ski jumping hill built outside of the GDR was inaugurated in Örnsköldsvik . This should be Glaß's last international appearance. At the beginning of December 1961 the daily newspapers of the GDR reported Glaß 'resignation from competitive sports. The right foot was just too much of a problem for Glaß, and Sachse was now 31 years old.

Trainer at SC Dynamo Klingenthal

After his active career, Glaß worked for the SV Dynamo as a member of the German People's Police. From 1962 to 1980 he worked as a trainer in the junior division of SC Dynamo Klingenthal. Athletes like Wolfgang Stöhr , Henry Glass and Mathias Buse were among his protégés. In 1982 Glaß suffered a heart attack . From 1988 he was retired due to invalidity , as he could hardly walk properly from Innsbruck due to his foot injury.

Honors

Trivia

The former ski jumper Henry Glaß is neither related to nor by marriage with him.

literature

Web links

Commons : Harry Glaß  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Freie Presse from February 5, 2016, Sport page
  2. ↑ Neue Zeit of January 22, 1952 p. 6
  3. ↑ Neue Zeit of March 12, 1952, p. 6
  4. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of April 1, 1952 p. 4
  5. ↑ Neue Zeit of February 11, 1953 p. 5
  6. ↑ Neue Zeit of February 26, 1953 p. 5
  7. ^ New Germany of February 4, 1954, p. 8
  8. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 3, 1954, p. 8
  9. ↑ Neue Zeit of March 2, 1954 p. 5
  10. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of February 8, 1955, p. 4
  11. ↑ Neue Zeit of March 1, 1955 p. 5
  12. ^ ND of October 2, 1955, p. 8
  13. ↑ Neues Deutschland, December 29, 1955, p. 8
  14. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of January 10, p. 4
  15. ↑ Passauer Neue Presse of January 24, 1956 p. 7
  16. ↑ Passauer Neue Presse of January 28, 1956 p. 7
  17. ^ Passauer Neue Presse of February 6, 1956 p. 5
  18. ^ Berliner Zeitung of February 15, 1956 p. 5
  19. ↑ New hill record on the Kulm . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 10, 1956, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
  20. ↑ ND of April 3, 1956 p. 4
  21. ^ ND of August 5, 1956 p. 10
  22. ^ ND of December 29, 1956 p. 8
  23. ↑ Neue Zeit of February 19, 1957 p. 5
  24. ↑ Neues Deutschland, December 28, 1957, p. 8
  25. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of March 18, 1958 p. 4
  26. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of June 13, p. 1
  27. ^ New Germany of December 3, 1958, p. 8
  28. ↑ Neues Deutschland from February 2, 1959, p. 6
  29. ^ ND of February 9, 1959 p. 4
  30. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 1, 1960 p. 6
  31. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 4, 1960 p. 1
  32. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 15, 1960 p. 6
  33. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 23, 1960 p. 1
  34. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of February 6, 1960 p. 4
  35. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of February 28, 1960 p. 5
  36. ^ New Germany of December 27, 1960 p. 4
  37. ↑ Neue Zeit of December 30, 1960 p. 2
  38. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of January 14, 1961 p. 7
  39. ↑ Neues Deutschland, January 23, 1961, p. 4
  40. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 30, 1961 p. 4
  41. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of February 21, 1961 p. 9
  42. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of April 17, 1961 p. 4
  43. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 9, 1961 p. 1
  44. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of October 31, 1961 p. 1
  45. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of December 2, 1961 p. 17
  46. ↑ ND of June 13, 1958 p. 1
personal data
SURNAME Glass, Harry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ski jumper
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Klingenthal , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1997
Place of death Rodewisch , Germany