Max Walter (Turner)

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Max Walter (* 1912 ; † 1975 ) was a German gymnast for TSG Weinheim .

Career

Walter was next to Willi Stadel and Franz Beckert the third strongest gymnast from Baden and next to Franz Eschwei one of the strongest gymnasts at TSG Weinheim. As members of the Baden squad, both won the German team championship four times from 1938 to 1941. In 1938 he also won the Baden Gymnastics Championships in 1938 .

In 1934 he and Eschwei were officially nominated as candidates for the 1936 Olympic Games, as were the Weinheim gymnast Margot Benefitberger-Hammer and the handball player Leonhard Schwöbel, who also belongs to the club .

Walter took part in numerous competitions, for example in a district comparison match for North Baden in 1936 and in the Baden championships in apparatus gymnastics in 1937. On April 28, 1940, Walter was part of the Baden division team together with Anton Kippert , Emil Anna , Hans Pludra , Karl Stadel , Franz Beckert and Willi Stadel German team champions in apparatus gymnastics . In the all-around competition at the German Gymnastics Championships held in Karlsruhe in 1941 , Walter, now a member of the Air Force , came 19th.

After World War II he was a record keeper at times at the club committee and was among others in 1964 it in at a labor Mörlenbach-Rohrbach in the Hessian Mumbachtal here where the club in 1961 when Karl Wambolt of Umstadt leased the "Lindenhof" and the medieval Hofgut a modern recreational sports model system for the TSG departments. The inauguration took place seven years after his death on May 15, 1982.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ High gymnastics class in Lahr in: Freiburger Zeitung of 9 November 1936th
  2. ^ Walter, Max. In: TSG Lexicon. Special edition of the TSG Journal for the Jubilee, TSG Weinheim, March 2012, p. 36. ( PDF ( Memento of the original dated August 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tsg-weinheim.de
  3. ↑ Eschwei, Franz. In: TSG-Lexikon. 2012, p. 8.
  4. ↑ Olympia. In: TSG Lexicon. 2012, p. 22.
  5. ↑ Major gymnastics event in Lahr in: Freiburger Zeitung of November 6, 1936.
  6. ↑ Baden Championships in apparatus gymnastics in: Freiburger Zeitung of January 18, 1937.
  7. ↑ With 15.8 points ahead of German champions in: Badische Presse of April 29, 1940.
  8. ^ Deutsche Turnzeitung , Berlin February 9, 1941 (Volume 6, Volume 86), p. 50.
  9. ↑ Heinz Keller: A dream came true in Rohrbach. In: TSG Journal. Edition 01/2016, TSG Weinheim, pp. 12-13.
personal data
SURNAME Walter, Max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH 1912
DATE OF DEATH 1975