Heinrich-Wilhelm Johannsmann

Heinrich-Wilhelm Johannsmann medal table
Show jumping
Germany
European championships
silver	1979	Show jumping, team (with Sarto )

Heinrich-Wilhelm "Kaiser" Johannsmann (born December 23, 1951 in Ebbesloh ) is a former German show jumper .

Career

Heinrich-Wilhelm Johannsmann grew up on his parents' horse breeding farm. At the age of 12 he started riding his father's broodmares. Later he got the opportunity to ride the horse of the club chairman at the Steinhagen riding club . During these years his nickname "Der Kaiser" was coined: his first riding instructor told him that he should sit "straight" like an emperor on a horse. After finishing school he planned a career as a professional rider, but at the request of his parents began an apprenticeship as a saddler. After completing this apprenticeship, he went to Lutz Goessing in 1973 , whom he already knew through personal contact at his home facility, and did his training as a rider here. He also supported him while he was doing his military service at the sports school of the Bundeswehr in Warendorf. In addition, also counted Hans Günter Winkler to his instructors.

In 1978 he left the Goessing stable and switched to the Römersee Stud of Gerhard Brenninkmeyer (then co-owner of C&A ) in Heiden as a rider . The first part of his international tournament career began with the horses Sarto and Chico made available to him here . In the same year he took part with the German team at the World Show Jumping Championships in Aachen, where he reached fifth place with the team. The greatest success of his career followed a year later, when he won silver with Sarto as part of the German team in the team classification at the 1979 European Championships in Rotterdam. In 1981 Johannsmann went back to the Goessing family's stable, and Thomas Frühmann was his successor at the Römersee Stud .

His second phase of success in international sport began in 1997. In that year he got three state stallions from the Warendorf State Stud ( Prosario , Potsdam and Grail Guardian ) for training. In addition to his tournament career, he was an honorary trainer for the DOKR national performance center in Warendorf from May 1998 to April 2004 . From 2002 he was together with Rudolf Könemund and Lutz Gripshöver a founding member of the Sabrina Illbruck team, with whom he also took part in the Riders Tour team competition.

The year 2005 was the last of his active riding career, after winning the Vienna Hall Derby in October 2005, he said goodbye to the audience in December at the festival hall tournament in Frankfurt (Main) and ended his equestrian career. After his sporting career, he worked as a trainer, including in Ludger Beerbaum's stable .

From 2011 to 2013 he was head of the team for Ukrainian teams at Nations Cups, with Nobert Nuxoll assisting him from April 2012 . From 2014 he will work as a trainer for the German regional associations.

Private

Johannsmann has three brothers; the company of one of his brothers is considered to be the leading horse transport company in Europe.

Heinrich-Wilhelm Johannsmann has been married since 1977 and lives in Ebbesloh, his birthplace. His son is married to the German-Danish dressage rider Nathalie Princess zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg .

Former competition horses (selection)

• Gralshüter (* 1990), brown Hanoverian stallion, trademark: silver-gray mane, father: Grail knight, mother's father : Akzent II, owned by the Warendorf State Stud until the beginning of 2007, ridden by Marielle Magreiter in 2007
• Prosario (* 1989), dark bay Westphalian stallion, father: Pinocchio, mother's father: Pakt, owned by the Warendorf State Stud until the beginning of 2007, ridden by Marielle Magreiter in 2007
• Potsdam (* 1989; † 2009), black stallion from the Rhineland , father: Polydor, mother's father: Goldstern, euthanized at the beginning of 2009 due to injury

successes

In addition to the listed successes in international championships, Johannsmann was seventh at the World Cup finals in 1980. He was also, for example, second in the Hanover Grand Prix 1998, Frankfurt 1999, Vienna 2000, Leipzig 2000, Munich 2001, Hickstead 2001, Wiesbaden 2002, Balve 2003 and Hachenburg 2004 as well as winner of the Grand Prix of Nörten-Hardenberg 2002, Redefin 2002 and Paderborn 2003.

He also took part in Nations Cups for Germany a total of 22 times.

Web links

• Heinrich-Wilhelm Johannsmann in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinrich-Wilhelm Johannsmann in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely accessible)
2. ↑ The Emperor of Show Jumping and his three boys - trainer Johannsmann surprises at Riders Tour , Andreas Kerstan for Die Welt , August 14, 2001
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Interview with Heinrich-Wilhelm Johannsmann: "The horses made everything possible for me" ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2016 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; 762 kB), Stübben-Magazin 03/2005, pages 14 and 15  
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Heinrich Wilhelm Johannsmann ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Portrait on the website of the Sabrina Illbruck team  
5. ↑ Thomas Frühmann was in mortal danger , Dieter Ludwig, January 26, 2010
6. ↑ Onischenko calls Paul Schockemöhle for help - April 24, 2012 ( Memento of the original from May 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , PferdeSport International, April 24, 2012 
7. ↑ New national coach: René Tebbel trains Ukraine , Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , September 20, 2013
8. ↑ The »Kaiser« changes his saddle ( memento from October 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
9. ^ Offspring in the Princely House , Dieter Ludwig for Rhineland's horses and riders
10. ↑ The Christmas Tale of the Princess and the Carpenter ... , Dieter Ludwig, January 7, 2010
11. ↑ Extract from the old FEI horse success database: Prosario NRW
12. ↑ FEI horse database: Potsdam NRW  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
13. ↑ Polydor son Potsdam put to sleep ( memento of the original from April 21, 2009 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. , Cavallo , April 2, 2009 
14. ↑ FEI short biography: Heinrich-Wilhelm Johannsmann