Hermann Nacke

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Hermann Nacke (born March 19, 1920 in Jena ; † April 12, 2008 ) was a German athlete who was successful as a high jumper and all-rounder in the 1940s . He jumped the German record and won four German championships:

  • 1940: master
  • 1941: Master
  • 1942: third
  • 1943: runner-up
  • 1947: runner-up in high jump, champion in pentathlon
  • 1948: Runner-up in high jump and pentathlon
  • 1949: Master
  • 1950: runner-up
  • 1952: runner-up

There were no German championships in 1944 and 1945.

On August 28, 1944, Hermann Nacke managed to jump over 2.01 m in Kiel , with which he improved Gustav Weinkötz's seven-year-old record by one centimeter. This record lasted for 13 years - it was not until 1957 that Günter Lein from Leipzig screwed it to 2.02 m.

Hermann Nacke did not have the opportunity to participate in international competitions. The Olympic Games of 1940 and 1944 were canceled due to the war, and no German athletes were invited to the 1948 Games in London , as well as to the European Championships in Oslo in 1946 and in Brussels in 1950 . At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 , German track and field athletes won a total of eight medals. The GDR was not allowed to send athletes. No German participant had been registered for the high jump competition, not even the reigning German champion Werner Bähr .

Hermann Nacke started for TSM Otto Schott Jena , from 1942 for Marine SV Kiel and in the post-war period for PSV Kiel .

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

Web links

Development of German records (PDF file; 98 kB)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Nacke: Obituary notice. In: Kieler Nachrichten , April 19, 2008, accessed on February 12, 2016.
  2. ↑ Invitation and documents for the 64th day of the Schleswig-Holstein Athletics Association eV Kreis Kiel, p. 8 accessed on February 12, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Nacke, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German athlete
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH April 12, 2008