Kurt Koerner

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Kurt Koerner Ski jumping
nation German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire
birthday May 13, 1912
place of birth Klingenthal ,  German Empire
date of death between 1940 and 1945
Career
 

Kurt Körner (born May 13, 1912 in Klingenthal , † between 1940 and 1945 ) was a German ski jumper .

Career

Körner first drew attention to himself in 1930 at an international winter sports festival in Oberwiesenthal by winning the youth class. A year later he reached fifth place at the second Workers' Olympiad in Mürzzuschlag . In the summer of 1932, Körner joined SV Klingenthal . In 1934, Körner won the cup competition on the Vogtlandschanze in his home town of Klingenthal . In the same year he secured victory at the Silesian Championships in Krummhübel (Karpacz).

At the Olympic Winter Games in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936 , Körner achieved 12th place on the Great Olympic Hill as the best German jumper with jumps on 66 and 65.5 meters . He had crashed in the first round and lost all chances of winning positions. In retrospect, however, his first jump was changed to 70 meters after it was assumed that Körners was disadvantaged after a verbal attack. A year later he jumped to 15th place at the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1937 in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc . Subsequently, his international career was considered to be over, but Körner achieved a good result in the New Year's competition in 1938 in Oberstdorf, with which he secured the invitation to the international sports week in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which he finished sixth.

In 1939 he won the 20th Reinhold Glaß commemorative runs in Klingenthal after winning this competition in 1937. In the winter of 1940 he won the Vogtland Championship in Mühlleithen and later the Saxony Championship in Oberwiesenthal. These are Körner's last known results.

Körner, who was married with a son and a daughter, subsequently died between 1940 and 1945 as part of his service in World War II . He was officially declared "missing" in 1945. 15 years later, on January 18, 1959, Mayor Baumgart and DSLV Vice President Lothar Köhler inaugurated the Kurt-Körner-Schanze in Klingenthal, which allowed jumps of up to 27 meters. But it only existed for almost 10 years and fell into disrepair as a new training center after the construction of the Kleiner Aschbergschanze .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Thorald Meisel: A Klingenthaler in the world's ski elite. In: Free Press . Medien Union , May 12, 2012, accessed November 28, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Vogtlandschanze . klingenthal.de. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
  3. ↑ Kurt-Körner-Schanze . klingenthal.de. Retrieved April 6, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Grains, kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ski jumper
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Klingenthal , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH between 1940 and 1945