Kurt Wedekind
Kurt Wedekind was a German gymnast. He died in World War II . Wedekind was one of the best German gymnasts and at times of the German team. He initially did gymnastics for TV 1861 Forst and later for the Aeltere Casseler Turngemeinde (ACT) in Kassel .
Life
Wedekind was a participant in the German championships in Essen and Berlin and in the German gymnastics festivals in Cologne and Stuttgart. At the German gymnastics championships on April 26, 1931 in the Grugahalle in Essen, he was fifth in the all-around competition.
At the Brandenburg Championships in Cottbus on March 6, 1932, he was champion ahead of Erich Bockenauer (TV Weißensee) and Schmickaly (Georg Jung gymnastics club). At the German Gymnastics Championships in Berlin in 1932 , he was fifth in the all-around competition. In 1932 he also appeared as one of the best gymnasts in Germany in the "beauty advertising gymnastics" in the Altenburger Landestheater .
In December 1933 Wedekind did gymnastics with the German team in the local forest.
In the last years before the Second World War, Kurt Wedekind was the most successful gymnast at ACT Kassel. In 1928 he won 10th place in the Twelve Fight at the German Gymnastics Festival in Cologne and received the highest number of points on the devices of all gymnasts.
He was often the winner of twelve competitions at district and guest festivals and was repeatedly one of the best apparatus gymnasts at German gymnastics festivals. He also won the Swiss Federal Gymnastics Festival in Aarau in 1932.
Wedekind won multiple German championships in Essen and Berlin and gymnastics festivals in Cologne (1928) and Stuttgart (1933).
Web links
- German gymnastics championships 1932 , in: Vossische Zeitung from April 28, 1932.
- German gymnastics championships 1931 , in: Spandauer Zeitung from April 27, 1932.
- Brandenburg Championships 1932 , in: Vossische Zeitung of March 7, 1932.
- German gymnastics championships 1932 , in: Vossische Zeitung of November 14, 1932.
- From all corners and edges , in: Vossische Zeitung of December 5, 1933.
On May 2, 1932, he took part in a "beauty advertising gymnastics " with other well-known gymnasts in the Altenburg State Theater .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e The history of the ACT 1925–1938; Retrieved July 12, 2017
- ↑ a b Reinhard Weber: Altenburger gymnasts once belonged to the world's elite. Ostthüringer Zeitung , July 14, 2015.
- ↑ The best German gymnasts came to Forst. Lausitzer Rundschau , December 3, 2005.
- ↑ Kurt Wedekind article in the Lausitzer Rundschau v. December 3, 2005
- ↑ Reinhard Weber: Altenburger gymnasts once belonged to the world's elite. Ostthüringer Zeitung , July 14, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wedekind, Kurt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gymnast |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | before 1946 |