Marten von Barnekow

Marten von Barnekow (born March 18, 1900 in Kronburg , † January 29, 1967 in Sophienreut bei Hof ) was a German show jumper .

He was a member of family v. Barnekov .

In 1929 he won the Derby and 1932 General the German Jumping Derby in Hamburg - Klein Flottbek . He won the gold medal with the team in show jumping at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin . In the individual ranking, he finished 26th on Nordland .

Von Barnekow spoke out in "The training of the show jumping horse" for moderation in the assembling exercises for show jumpers.

“This type of work, which is quite difficult for the average rider, is mostly applied and carried out incorrectly. (...) As in the walk and trot, the main thing remains to walk on the long rein with a long neck with the nose carried in front of the vertical, consciously renouncing the straightening with strong bending of the hindquarters. "

- Marten von Barnekow : The training of the jumping horse, Düsseldorf, 1959, p. 12 f

Barnekow joined the SS in 1934 . Just one year later he realized that the only way to successfully prepare for the Olympic Games in Berlin was to switch to the Wehrmacht. He therefore asked for his release from the SS and prepared for the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin in the Wehrmacht's Hanover cavalry school . At the equestrian competitions he won the gold medal in team jumping on "Nordland" together with Kurt Hasse on "Tora" and Heinz Brandt on "Alchemist". In 1938 he rejoined the SS to continue his equestrian career for the SS main riding school in Munich .

literature

• Marten von Barnekow: The training of the jumping horse. Sankt Georg Verlag, Düsseldorf, 3rd edition 1959
• Alfred Petermann: Sports Lexicon . Book and Time, Cologne 1969
• Berno Bahro: SS Sport. Organization, function, meaning . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn a. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-506-77288-6

Web links

• Marten von Barnekow in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article314413/In-den-Anfaengen-nur-fuer-Herrenreiter.html

Individual evidence

1. ^ Berno Bahro: SS Sport. Organization, function, meaning . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn a. a. 2013, p. 241.
2. ↑ Organizing Committee for the XI. Olympiad Berlin eV: XI. Berlin Olympics 1936. Official report, Berlin 1937, p. 919.
3. ^ Berno Bahro: SS Sport. Organization, function, meaning . Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn a. a. 2013, p. 246.