Herbert Leonhardt

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Herbert Leonhardt Ski jumping Nordic combinationCross-country skiing
Herbert Leonhardt (1954)
nation Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic
birthday January 27, 1925
date of death July 1986
Career
discipline Ski jumping
Nordic combined
cross-country skiing
society SC structure Klingenthal
Medal table
National medals 4 × gold 0 × silver 2 × bronze
 

Herbert Leonhardt (born January 27, 1925 , † July 1986 ) was a German Nordic skier who started in ski jumping , cross-country skiing and Nordic combined .

Life

Leonhardt, a trained carpenter, began his sports career in the company sports community (BSG) Musik Klingenthal-Aschberg of the Harmonikawerke Klingenthal .

Leonhardt won all four gold medals in the Nordic disciplines at the winter sports championships of the Soviet occupation zone in Oberhof in 1949 . A year later he only finished fourth in the cross-country skiing singles of Schierke and won bronze in the combined. He also landed 28th in singles at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo . A year earlier he secured a bronze medal in cross-country skiing at the GDR championships. As an active player, he won eleven gold medals at GDR championships and in 1953 was the first winter sportsman in the GDR to be awarded the honorary title of " Master of Sports " by Walter Ulbricht .

After studying at the German University for Physical Culture in Leipzig , he began his coaching career at SC Dynamo Klingenthal , first in Nordic Combined, and from 1961 in special jumping. Ulrich Pschera , Matthias Buse , Manfred Deckert and Klaus Ostwald were among his protégés .

Leonhardt was elected to the first council of the small Vogtland community of Mühlleithen in 1949. In the municipal elections in 1965 he was re-elected to the council of the municipality, was deputy mayor of Mühlleithen from 1971 and ran again for the municipal council in the municipal elections on May 6, 1984.

Major of VP Herbert Leonhardt was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and died after a short illness at the age of 61.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What the start list says . In: Neues Deutschland , February 15, 1951, p. 6.
  2. ↑ Neues Deutschland, February 12, 1949, p. 4.
  3. ↑ Neues Deutschland, March 2, 1950, p. 6.
  4. ↑ Neues Deutschland, March 3, 1950, p. 6.
  5. ↑ 18 received the title "Master of Sports" . In: Neue Zeit , July 11, 1953, p. 5.
  6. ↑ Herbert Leonhardt remembers the difficult beginning . In: Neues Deutschland , January 25, 1979, p. 5.
  7. ↑ When Herbert won four times . In: Neue Zeit , February 6, 1985, p. 6.
  8. ↑ Several times active: H. Leonhardt . In: Neue Zeit , April 4, 1984, p. 5.
  9. ↑ In one sentence . Announcement in the Berliner Zeitung of July 9, 1986, p. 6 and thanks to his family in Neues Deutschland , August 18, 1986, p. 6.
personal data
SURNAME Leonhardt, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ski jumper
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1925
DATE OF DEATH July 1986