Heinrich Troßbach

Heinrich Troßbach (born March 8, 1903 in Metz , Lorraine ; † October 8, 1947 in Kulmbach ) was a German athlete who was successful in the 110-meter hurdles discipline in the 1920s . He started for Eintracht Frankfurt and from 1924 for the Berliner Sport-Club .

Career

On June 3, 1923, he ran in Frankfurt with 15.1 s European record, which he was able to repeat in Frankfurt on September 16 of the same year. The following year he lost his record to the Swede Sten Pettersson , who was the first European to run under 15 seconds with 14.9 s, but on August 8, 1925 in Berlin, he also ran 14.9 s and missed the Canadian Earl Thomson set a world record of 14.8 s in 1920 by just a tenth of a second. As early as 1922 Heinrich Troßbach had improved Walter Martin's ten-year-old German record of 15.8 s by no less than half a second to 15.3 s. He achieved this time on August 20 in Duisburg . It was not undercut by Ferdinand Beschetznick until 1931 .

Heinrich Troßbach's two-fold misfortune was that he was denied an Olympic medal and recognition of his world record: Germany was not invited to the 1924 Games in Paris (and 1920 in Antwerp) due to its role in the First World War , and world records were the rule at the time can only be recognized if all the hurdles remain in place. The fable times that Troßbach ran with 14.6 and 14.5 s on August 16, 1925 in Frankfurt could not be taken into account. In the world best list of 1925, however, he is in first place with 14.5 s - and also in seventh place over 400-meter hurdles , over which he had run 55.0 s.

Troßbach had a competition weight of 78 kg with a height of 1.87 m.

He was employed as the main office manager in the German Reich Association for physical exercises in Berlin.

His son Wolfgang (born August 24, 1927), silver medalist at the 1949 World Student Games in Merano (Merano) and participant in the 1952 Olympic Games , was able to place ten German championships over 110 meter hurdles between 1946 and 1955. In 1951, 1952 and 1953 he was a champion. This father / son success story, with almost identical achievements in a technical discipline, is unprecedented in Germany to this day, in Austria the javelin throwers Erwin and Walter Pektor are comparable.

Successes in German championships over 110 meter hurdles

• 1922: Master before Ernst Paulus and Arthur Holz
• 1923: Master in front of Reinhold Kasten and Stein
• 1925: Meister vor Morgenroth and Hans Steinhardt
• 1926: Masters before Morgenroth and Ewald Schulze
• 1928: Third behind Hans Steinhardt and Willi Welscher
• 1929: Second behind Willi Welscher and ahead of Erwin Wegner
• 1931: Third behind Ferdinand Beschetznick and Erwin Wegner

further

• 1923: Master over 400 m hurdles
• 1925: Champion over 400 m hurdles in a record time of 55.0 s (not recognized for breaking a hurdle)
• 1926: Second over 400 m hurdles behind Otto Peltzer

Heinrich Troßbach has achieved six German championship titles over both hurdles.

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