Luise Finke

Luise Finke (born February 13, 1917 in Elbing ; † October 26, 2002 , born as Luise Lockemann) was a German educator and athlete.

Life

Luise Lockemann came to Jena with her parents in 1926 , where her father Theodor Lockemann had been appointed director of the university library. As a student, she was an active athlete who successfully competed in many competitions for the Jena Association for Movement Games (VfB). She had been close friends with Siegfriede Dempe since the early 1930s , but was overshadowed as a track and field athlete. From 1934 Luise Lockemann studied physical exercises at the University of Marburg and competed successfully in student championships several times. After completing her studies, in 1938 she became a technical teacher at the "Educational Institute for Women 's Professions - Potters" in Weimar . In 1939 she became a trainee teacher at the state high school in Jena, but was assigned to the Institute for Physical Education at the University of Jena in 1940 . As a teacher training candidate, she was allowed to continue at university championships and achieved her greatest successes in the years 1938 to 1940, when she entered for the University of Jena. At the same time, she continued her career as a track and field athlete, trained under Fritz Huhn and became student world champion in high and long jump in Vienna in 1939 . Her participation in the 1940 Olympic Games in the long jump competition was considered safe, but the Second World War prevented this.

Lockemann was a member of the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM) from 1935 to 1941 and from 1939/40 the group sports warden of the Hitler Youth (HJ), from 1939 to 1941 a member of the NSLB and in 1940 of the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV).

After the war ended in 1945, the then 28-year-old went to Göttingen , where she worked in university sports at the Georg August University . Later she moved to Hanover and devoted herself to athletics more and more other sports, such as hockey . At the beginning of the 1960s she began orienteering , to which she remained true to the end. In addition to the sporting activity, Finke was also active as a functionary in the state committee for orienteering of the Lower Saxony Gymnastics Association .

Luise Finke was married. Her daughter was also one of the most successful orienteers in Germany for a long time.

Awards

• 1937: German vice-champion in high jump
• 1938: German student champion in high jump and long jump
• 1939: Student world champion in high and long jump
• 1940: German student champion in high jump and long jump
• 1941: German championships in high jump, bronze medal
• 1951: German vice-champion in high jump
• 1994: Orienteering age group world championships gold
• 1996: Orienteering age group world championships silver
• 1997: Orienteering age group world championships bronze
• 1999: Orienteering age group world championships silver
• 2001: Orienteering age group world championships silver

Honors

In 2010, a path was named south of today's HDI-Arena in the Hanover Sports Park in Luise-Finke-Weg

literature

• German Society for Athletics Documentation 1990 eV, Bulletin No. 3/1992, p. 33

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Georg Kremer: Women at the Institute for Physical Exercise at Jena University from 1934 - 1945 (PDF file; 2.03 MB), in: Jena Contributions to Sport, Issue 12, 2007, p. 5, ISBN 978-3- 9811310-2-4 , accessed November 15, 2010
2. ↑ State capital Hanover: Scientific consideration of eponymous personalities: List of street names to be retained , July 2018, p. 12
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Athletics - German Championships (high jump - women) , accessed on November 15, 2010
4. ^ Conrad von Meding: Six new sporty names around the arena , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 16, 2010, p. 17