Klaus Ulonska

Klaus Ulonska
Klaus Ulonska (2012)
Full name	Klaus Dinckels-Ulonska
nation	BR Germany
birthday	December 10, 1942
place of birth	Cologne
date of death	March 13, 2015
Place of death	Cologne
Career
discipline	sprint
society	ASV Cologne
Medal table
European championships 1 × 0 × 0 × German championships 2 × 2 × 1 ×
European championships gold Belgrade 1962 4 × 100 m relay  German championships gold Düsseldorf 1961 4 × 100 m relay silver Düsseldorf 1961 100 m silver Hamburg 1962 4 × 100 m relay gold Augsburg 1963 4 × 100 m relay bronze Augsburg 1963 200 m

Klaus Ulonska (born December 10, 1942 in Cologne ; † March 13, 2015 ibid), actually Klaus Dinckels-Ulonska , was a German athlete and sports official .

Life

In his youth, Ulonska was a sprinter who was particularly successful in the relay race . In 1961 he was the first German champion in the men's 4-by-100-meter relay of ASV Cologne . In the same year he finished second in the 100-meter run . At the European Championships in 1962 in Belgrade he won together with Peter Gamper , Jochen Bender and Manfred Germar which the 4-by-100-meter dash gold medal . In the 200-meter run of these European Championships, however, he was eliminated in the intermediate run. In the same discipline, he won third place at the German championships in 1962. In 1963, the then 1.74 m tall and 68 kg heavy athlete finally won the German championship again in the 4 x 100 meter run with the ASV Cologne relay.

Klaus Ulonska with the award certificate of the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class (2014)

Together with Wolfgang Overath Ulonska completed a commercial apprenticeship at Kaufhof . Later he was managing director of Dinckels-Ulonska Bedachungsartikel GmbH in Cologne, whose management he gave up in 2005.

As an active track and field athlete, Ulonska was also involved as a sports official and in politics. For many years he was a member of the Cologne City Council for the CDU . He also organized the successful ASV sports festival and was at times head of the Kölner EK ice sports club and the local city sports association.

For decades, Ulonska was also active in the Cologne carnival as the meeting president and in 1973 in the Cologne triumvirate as the virgin Claudia .

In 2006 Ulonska became the first chairman of SC Fortuna Köln , which he led back to the third division after a sporting and financial crisis and led it until the end of his life.

He met his wife, Helge Lotte, nee Schurr (1944–2018), while he was active as a track and field athlete. Their daughter Alexandra is married to the entrepreneur Patrick Adenauer .

Grave in the Melaten cemetery (July 2018)

At the age of 72, Ulonska died of a heart attack in his hometown of Lindenthal, Cologne, and was buried in the Melaten cemetery (HWG, between lit. M + T).

Honors

In 1987 Ulonska received the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon for his commitment to local politics and in 2014 the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class in recognition of his life's work, which he received in the presence of Ralf Jäger , Minister of the Interior and Local Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia , from Jürgen Roters , the Lord Mayor the city of Cologne .

In 2019 a footpath at the Südstadion in Cologne-Zollstock was named Klaus-Ulonska-Weg in his honor.

Web links

Commons : Klaus Ulonska  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Klaus Ulonska in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Fortuna Stories - The President
• Cornel Wachter : A sprinter, right to the end. Obituary for Fortuna President Klaus Ulonska on 11freunde.de.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Philip Sagioglou, Christian Krämer: Obituary for Klaus Ulonska: A friend of the city and its citizens , Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, March 13, 2015.
2. ↑ Commercial register no. 71IN17104
3. ↑ Disruptive fire from within our own ranks on rundschau-online.de v. September 28, 2009
4. ↑ Winding paths in Der Spiegel issue 33/1989
5. ↑ Susanne Happe: On the death of Klaus Ulonska: A bundle of energy and a reliable friend . In: Kölnische Rundschau . ( rundschau-online.de [accessed on July 16, 2018]).
6. ^ Memorial page of Helge Lotte Ulonska. Retrieved July 16, 2018 . 
7. ^ President Klaus Ulonska dies of a heart attack
8. ↑ Phillip Arens: All of Cologne weeps for an original. In: Bild.de. March 14, 2015, accessed March 14, 2015 . 
9. ^ Message from report-k from April 7, 2014
10. ^ Heribert Rösgen: Street named after Klaus Ulonska . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . October 24, 2019, p. 25 .