Hermann Weingärtner

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Hermann Otto Ludwig Weingärtner (born August 27, 1864 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † December 22, 1919 there ) was a German gymnast and Olympic champion .

He was the son of the gymnastics and swimming instructor and bathing establishment owner Gustav Weingärtner and his wife Wilhelmine. He was the third oldest of five sons after Albert and Robert (younger brothers Max and Adolf). The family lived at Fischerstrasse 2, 94/95 and 100.

Weingärtner trained as a businessman in Frankfurt (Oder) and did gymnastics at the Frankfurt Gymnastics Club in 1860. He went to Berlin for professional reasons and in 1885 he joined the Berlin Gymnastics Association . He achieved his first major national success at the 8th  German Gymnastics Festival in 1894 in Breslau (Wrocław), a year later he won a gold plaque at the National Gymnastics Festival in Rome.

At the 1st Summer Olympic Games in Athens in 1896 , Weingärtner won the individual competition on the horizontal bar on April 9th . He also won the team competitions on horizontal bar and parallel bars . He achieved second places in the rings and in the pommel horse . He is also said to have been third in the individual competition on parallel bars, with other sources, including the official website of the International Olympic Committee , assigning his bronze medal to the “vault men”, which corresponds to jumping on a jumping horse . With three silver medals, together with Alfred Flatow and Paul Masson , he was the most successful winner behind Carl Schuhmann and achieved second place in the international overall ranking.

In Germany he was banned from participating in the Olympics because the German Gymnastics Association boycotted the Olympics. He went back to Frankfurt (Oder) and was in charge of his father's bathing establishment on the island of Ziegenwerder until his death in 1919. On December 22nd, 1910 he received the rescue medal on the ribbon for rescuing a drowning man.

Hermann Weingärtner married the baker's daughter Elisabeth Kummert in 1900, with whom he had three children: Ella, Erich and Klara.

Hermann Weingärtner died on December 22, 1919 of a heart attack that he suffered while crossing a boat from Ziegenwerder to the bank of the Oder at the end of Bischofstrasse. The now dignified grave received a plaque on December 10, 2018.

In his honor, the main path on the island of Ziegenwerder in Frankfurt (Oder) has been called Hermann-Weingärtner-Weg since 1996 .

In 2007, Marcus Thätner , European Championship third in the wrestling , received the Hermann Weingärtner Prize, awarded for the first time by the city of Frankfurt (Oder), and the associated premium of 1896 euros. In 2009 Romy Tarangul (bronze medalist of the World Championships in the class up to 52 kilograms ) received it from the Judo Club 90 Frankfurt (Oder). Other award winners include a. World cycling champion Reinhard Scheer 2011 and skeet shooter Ralf Buchheim 2013.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Eberhard Fehland, Hans-Jürgen Losensky: Sports City Frankfurt (Oder) . Editor: Association of Sports History of the City of Frankfurt (Oder) eV 2005, p. 10f
  2. ^ Hermann Weingärtner in the official website of the International Olympic Committee
  3. ↑ Housing Book 1912, page IV, looking back on December 2010
  4. ↑ Obituary and obituary of the gymnastics club 1860 in the Frankfurter Oderzeitung from December 25, 1919
  5. ↑ http://www.moz.de/index.php/Moz/Article/category/Frankfurt%2B%2528Oder%2529/id/215668 accessed October 16, 2008 at 10:40 p.m.
  6. ↑ Dietrich Stulpe: Jury chooses Romy Tarangul in Märkische Oderzeitung , January 21, 2010, Lokalsport, p. 17
  7. ↑ Hubertus Rößler: "Awarding of prizes with dance insert" in Märkische Oderzeitung , September 9, 2013, Frankfurter Stadtbote, p. 13
personal data
SURNAME Weingärtner, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weingärtner, Hermann Otto Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gymnast and Olympic champion
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 1919
Place of death Frankfurt (Oder)