Josef Otto

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Josef Otto approx. 1903 - original in family ownership

Josef Otto (born September 28, 1880 in Dieburg ; † January 21, 1961 ) was a German heavy athlete. Between 1896 and 1926 he won around 300 honorary prizes as an all-round athlete in the disciplines of wrestling , chiselling , discus throwing , hammer throwing , shot put and stone pushing , including four world championships , 30 German and 58 other championships.

biography

Members of the Athletik-Sport-Verein 1895 Darmstadt, photo from around 1905 - the original in family ownership

Josef Otto was the son of Joseph Otto and Anna Maria Otto. He had a brother, Edmund Otto. With his wife Regina, geb. Windschmitt, he had 4 children, Edmund, Ferdinand, Berta Augusta and Maria Elisabeth.

In 1896 Josef Otto came to Darmstadt at the age of 16. There he learned the craft of carpenter . He then worked as a foreman in Georg Schleidts (1878–1942) carpentry until 1904 . At that time he was successful in heavy athletics and inspired Joseph Otto for weight training. In the Athleten-Verein-Darmstadt founded by Schleidt in 1894, his brother Edmund, Hermann Gross and Ludwig Eiberger , among others, were active.

Josef Otto then worked as a stage master at the Darmstadt State Theater from 1904 to 1918. In 1922 he took over the Zum Landsberg restaurant on Ballonplatz / corner of Alexanderstrasse and Magdalenenstrasse in Darmstadt. There he had a petrol pump set in front of the inn in 1926 in order to benefit from the emerging automobile traffic. The facility, which was enlarged several times, fell victim to the bombing in World War II. After the reconstruction, he continued to operate the petrol station until he handed it over to his son Edmund and grandson Josef Schlegel in 1956.

Athletic career and successes

At the turn of the century Josef Otto teamed up with the student Speitel from Pforzheim and practiced with the large iron ball (without lead filling) and with the heavy iron discus during lunch breaks on the parade ground in Darmstadt.

At an international sports festival in Frankfurt's Palmengarten, he took part in the discus competition for the first time - at that time, a 2.50 m "square ring" was thrown without twisting - and came third behind two Czechs .

Otto started first for the Athletik-Sport-Verein 1895 Darmstadt, later for the Darmstädter SC. He achieved his first championships in wrestling in 1898 and in 1899 in Duisburg and Munich in stone throwing and chiselling. In Strasbourg, after three victories in discus throwing, he was the first German to throw over 40 m (41.70), the very coveted challenge prize of the then imperial governor of Alsace-Lorraine, Karl von Wedel .

In 1906, after he had already completed his competitions, his supervisor reported him to throw hammer. He didn't know the device and wanted to try it out. Right away, he threw the German record with over 40 m.

In 1912 he was unable to take part in the German championships due to illness; his brother Edmund Otto became German weight throwing champion that year.

A world record in weight throwing set in 1913 in Breslau - 19.70, with a 25 pound weight - was not set until after 1960.

In 1926 he was once again German master in lifting at the German Heavy Athletics Championships in Frankfurt am Main.

Placements

year space Style / discipline Weight class Result
1898 1. Wrestling Main Association of the German Athletes' Association
1899 Various successes Wrestling, prying, rocking, discus Duisburg, Munich,

in Strasbourg Otto received the challenge award from Count von Wedel

1901 3. Greco-Roman wrestling Heavyweight German championships.
1903 1. Greco-Roman wrestling Heavyweight German Championships, Association Festival, Stuttgart, German Athletes Association
1904 1. discus World champion, in Duisburg
1904 1. Stone throwing World champion in Duisburg
1905 1. Sling ball throwing Frankfurt, Association for Gymnastics
1906 1. Sling ball throwing Nuremberg, FC Franconia Nuremberg
1906 1. discus German record 41.70 m
1909 1. Shot put German championships
1910 1. Shot put German championships
1910 3. Ball throwing 3 kg Frankfurt, International Exhibition for Sports and Games
1913 1. Weight throwing World record 19.55 meters with 25 pounds
1913 1. Stone throwing World Championship,
1914 1. Shot put Olympic test fight, Frankfurt a./M.
1926 1. To stem German champion, German heavy athletics championships in Frankfurt a / Main

swell

  1. ↑ Darmstädter Echo, author Bernd Hensel, November 8, 1994 and November 29, 1994
  2. ↑ a b c d e f magazine "Leichtathletik" issue no. 8 from February 19, 1952
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Newspaper clipping from 1926 without a title
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Bulletin of SV 98 Darmstadt from December 1949
  5. ↑ 19.55 m according to the newspaper clipping without a title from 1926
  6. ↑ Excerpt from Darmstädter Tageszeitung without title from March 21, 1974
  7. ↑ http://www.sport-komplett.de/sport-komplett/sportarten/r/ringen/hst/107.html
  8. ↑ a b c Honorary award in the original family property
  9. ↑ Original medal in family ownership
personal data
SURNAME Otto, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German heavy athlete
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH The castle
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1961