Marianne Mahlberg

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Marianne Mahlberg (born January 31, 1914 in Cologne ; † April 18, 1981 there ) was a German rower . In 1939 she became the first German champion in single .

biography

Mahlberg was the daughter of a Cologne coal trader . She attended the Catholic Lyceum at St. Gereon von Surmann and Bonne and then the Merlo-Mevissen-Gymnasium , which she graduated with a secondary school leaving certificate. From 1930 she worked in her parents' business. She was a member of the Cologne Club for Water Sports (KCfW).

Up until the 1930s, rowing was considered improper for women: “Rowing is alien to the nature of women.” A “ladies' team” was only accepted in the KCfW in 1932 after long discussions. She operated style rowing , in which good posture, harmonious processes and precise movements were important, and initially consisted only of female members of the male club members. For practical reasons, the rowers were rowed in trousers, but after leaving the boats the rowers had to put on skirts immediately. "Mixed rowing" was strictly forbidden.

In 1937 Marianne Mahlberg started rowing. A year later she discovered her passion for racing rowing at a course for female rowers in Berlin . From then on she trained daily in the Deutz harbor , in winter she did "box rowing " and gymnastics in the KCfW boathouse in the Marienburg district of Cologne . Your trainer was Max Reimbold, himself a former successful racing rower. At the first German rowing championships for women in Leipzig in 1939, she won the title in the one over 1000 meters. She was then received by a cheering crowd at Cologne Central Station .

Her ambition to win more titles failed because of a hip problem that she had suffered from since childhood. Her parents died in the war years and the coal business was given up. In the autumn of 1946 she married Max Reimbold, who was a hardware manufacturer by profession, and continued to work for the KCfW. In the 1960s, the couple separated and Mahlberg's connection to rowing was lost. She died in 1981 at the age of 67 in her hometown of Cologne.

literature

  • Gabi Langen: loved, adored, adored. The idols of Cologne sports . Emons, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-89705-181-8 .
  • Gabi Langen (Ed.): From the handstand to marriage - women's sport in the Rhineland until 1945 . Emons Verlag, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-924491-11-9 , p. 138 .
  • Bettina Janecek: “Should women row?” Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , local edition Cologne, July 23, 2020, p. 29 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Remembrance Days . In: fembio.org. Retrieved January 17, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Langen, From handstand to marriage , p. 61/65.
  3. ↑ "Should women row?" - Marianne Mahlberg, 1914-1981 on sportsfrauen.de ( Memento from September 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b Langen, Beloved, worshiped, worshiped , p. 39.
  5. ↑ Langen, Beloved, Adored, Deified , p. 40.
personal data
SURNAME Mahlberg, Marianne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rower
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1981
Place of death Cologne