Hermann of Valta

Hermann of Valta
nation	German Empire
birthday	August 27, 1900
place of birth	Munich ,  German Empire
date of death	November 27, 1968
Place of death	Garmisch-Partenkirchen ,  FR Germany
Career
discipline	Four-man bobsleigh
position	Pusher
society	SC Riessersee
Medal table
World Cup medals 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships gold Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1934 Four-man bobsleigh gold St. Moritz 1935 Four-man bobsleigh

Hermann von Valta (born August 27, 1900 in Munich , † November 27, 1968 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German bobsleigh driver .

Career

Hermann von Valta started for the SC Riessersee . At the Bobsleigh World Championship in 1934 he won the title in the four-man bobsleigh on the home track of pilot Hanns Kilian in Garmisch-Partenkirchen together with Fritz Schwarz and Sebastian Huber . The following year at the 1935 World Bobsleigh Championship in St. Moritz, the title was defended, with Alexander Gruber sitting in the bobsleigh for Sebastian Huber. At the 1936 Olympic Games in his hometown of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, von Valta and Kilian were the best-placed German in both competitions, but fifth in the two-man bobsleigh and seventh in the four-man bobsleigh, he clearly missed the medal ranks.

After his career, Hermann von Valta was head of the Agricultural Office in Augsburg and also headed the agricultural school there.

Web links

• Hermann von Valta in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )