Meinrad Miltenberger
Meinrad "Auto" Miltenberger (born December 6, 1924 in Herdecke ; † September 10, 1993 ibid) was a German canoeist and canoe trainer . He won several German and European and world champion and was by winning the first post-war - gold medal for Germany at the 1956 Summer Olympics known.
biography
Meinrad Miltenberger completed a three-year electrician apprenticeship after finishing elementary school in Herdecke, his birthplace . As a teenager he was active as a track and field athlete and gymnast . From 1941 he was a member of the Herdecker Kanu-Club 1925 e. V. (HKC), for whom he always competed almost all his life, and took part in the German youth championships in his first year.
After his time as a soldier in World War II , being wounded in Italy ( Cortina d'Ampezzo ) and being a prisoner of war , he completed a mason training in the Hasper Hütte steelworks in the neighboring town of Hagen-Haspe and concentrated his sporting activities on canoeing. He was seven times German champion, Western European champion and took part in the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki . There he took fifth place in a single kayak over 1000 meters and in a two-person kayak over 10,000 meters together with Karl-Heinz Schäfer in sixth place. In 1956 he became Olympic champion in a two-man kayak with Michel Scheuer . He was then awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.
From 1959 Miltenberger worked for ten years as a national trainer at the German Canoe Association , then until 1987 as a regional trainer in Berlin , where he also made his specialist sports instructor . He then returned to his hometown and died there in 1993 at the age of 68.
For winning the world championship, he received the silver bay leaf on July 29, 1954.
Miltenberger was first married to Lotti Schulz, who died in 1977. He later married Ruth Rohrbach, a canoeist.
successes
German Championships (men, 500 m)
- 1951 2nd place
- 1952 1st place, German champion
- 1953 2nd place
- 1954 1st place, German champion
- 1955 1st place, German champion
- 1956 1st place, German champion
- 1957 1st place, German champion
- 1958 2nd place
- 1959 2nd place
European Championships (Men, Germany)
- 1957 2nd place (two-man, 500 m, together with Schmidt)
- 1959 European Champion (4 × 500 m; together with Paul Lange , Bernhard Schulze , Helmuth Schneider )
1954 World Championships in Mâcon
- 1st place, world champion in a two-man kayak (500 m) together with Ernst Steinhauer
- 2nd place, single kayak (500 m)
1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne
- Gold medal in a two-man kayak for Germany (1000 m; 3: 49.6 min) together with Michel Scheuer
World Championships 1958 in Prague
- 1st place, world champion (4 × 500 m; together with Paul Lange , Fritz Briel , Helmut Herz )
- 3rd place, two-person kayak (500 m) together with Paul Lange
literature
- Brunhilde Conjaerts: Modest athlete with a strong will - Meinrad "Auto" Miltenberger, Herdeckes first Olympic champion. In: Herdecker Blätter. No. 4/2. Jg./1993. Pp. 32-34
Web links
- Meinrad Miltenberger in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Literature by and about Meinrad Miltenberger in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sports report of the Federal Government of September 29, 1973 to the Bundestag - Printed matter 7/1040 - page 61
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Miltenberger, Meinrad |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Miltenberger, car (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German canoeist and canoe trainer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 6, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Herdecke |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 10, 1993 |
| Place of death | Herdecke |