Helmut Kienert

Helmut Kienert (* 1927 ; † 2000 ) was a German weightlifter.

Career

Helmut Kienert , a real Berlin boy, was a good gymnast as a child and played the accordion professionally. In 1944 he was drafted away from high school to join the tank grenadiers in Neuruppin (basic training). As a 17-year-old, in the final phase of the Second World War , he was seriously wounded in the right shoulder in retreat battles in Hungary / Budapest. In the hospital, during the last days of the war, he was able to start his journey home by train to Berlin by exchanging hospital tickets (typically Helmut!) With another comrade. His goal was to get to his mother, who remained alone in Berlin, despite the serious shoulder injury - the right arm was fixed in front of his upper body (his brother had died shortly before near Messina / southern Italy). Helmut spent the last hours of the war with his mother in an air raid shelter on Schlossstrasse in Berlin-Charlottenburg.

After the war he began weightlifting at Siegfried-Nordwest Berlin . His first coaches were Lewin and Meier. In 1951 he became known on the Berlin level when he achieved good results in team fights and the Berlin championships. From 1958 to 1960, when he was over 30 years old, he was the German light heavyweight champion three times in a row. In 1959 he was also used at the World Championships in Warsaw and came to a respectable 10th place in the World Cup and 8th place in the European Championship. Helmut Kienert had turned his hobby, music, into his profession and performed as an accordion virtuoso in many theaters, bars and restaurants. Since this usually happened at night, it is all the more admirable how he always reconciled his profession with sport. It took a lot of commitment and enjoyment of sport.

Helmut always had an open ear for all sports comrades and musician friends and was valued by everyone who knew him because of his impartial, funny character. His death was a great loss for many of us.

International success

(WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship)

• 1959, 10th place ( 8th place ), WM + EM in Warsaw , Ls, with 365 kg;

German championships

• 1953, 2nd place , Ls, with 332.5 kg, behind Erwin Tratz , Nuremberg , 347.5 kg and in front of Fritz Mast, Munich , 330 kg;
• 1954, 4th place , Ls, with 340 kg, behind Tratz, 355 kg, Günter Siebert , Leipzig , 350 kg and Hans Claussen , Lübeck , 347.5 kg;
• 1955, 4th place , Ls, with 345 kg, behind Karl-Heinz Haag , Moers , 362.5 kg, Heinz Kilian (weight lifter) , Kassel , 355 kg and Alfred Hintz, Hanover , 355 kg;
• 1956, 3rd place , Ls, with 355 kg, behind Haag, 370 kg and Horst Wessel, Hamburg , 357.5 kg;
• 1957, 3rd place , Ls, with 365 kg, behind Haag, 387.5 kg and Kilian, 365 kg;
• 1958, 1st place , Ls, with 370 kg, ahead of Gotthard Bauer, Passau , 367.5 kg and Kilian, 357.5 kg;
• 1959, 1st place , Ls, with 375 kg, in front of Bauer, 375 kg and Norbert Fehr , Mutterstadt , 372.5 kg;
• 1960, 1st place , Ls, with 372.5 kg, ahead of Anton Leuthe , Fellbach , 370 kg and Willi Müller , Flözlingen, 352.5 kg;
• 1962, 7th place , Ls, with 352.5 kg, winner: Bernd Krug , Mainz , 385 kg, ahead of Müller, 380 kg;
• 1963, 6th place , Ls, with 360 kg, winner: Krug, 392.5 kg ahead of Helmut Schaal, Mutterstadt, 380 kg;
• 1964, 5th place , Ls, with 355 kg, winner: Helmut Werheid , Cologne , 390 kg ahead of Heinz Vierthaler, Regensburg, 377.5 kg

swell

• "Athletik" trade journal from 1952 to 1965