Michael Köhler (luge rider)

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Köhler at the GDR championships in 1964 on the Spießbergbahn Friedrichroda

Michael Köhler (born February 26, 1944 in Zwickau ) is a former German luge athlete .

Michael Köhler is the younger brother of the Olympic luge champion Thomas Köhler and started like him for SC Traktor Oberwiesenthal . In 1965 he and Wolfgang Scheidel won the doubles title at the Luge World Championships in Davos . In 1969 he was third in the world championship with Klaus-Michael Bonsack , a year later he won the world championship title alongside Bonsack behind the Austrian doubles Manfred Schmid and Ewald Walch .

He had been successful nationally since the first half of the 1960s. In 1963 Köhler was runner-up behind his brother in Oberbärenburg . A year later he won the title on the Spießbergbahn in Friedrichroda ahead of his future double partner Bonsack. In the two-seater he won the bronze medal with Scheidel in 1964 and 1965. In 1969 he was runner-up with Bonsack behind Horst Hörnlein and Reinhard Bredow . A year later they both won the title.

In the 5th electoral period (1967–1971) he represented the FDJ in the People's Chamber of the GDR.

literature

  • Bodo Harenberg (Red.): The Stars of Sports from AZ , Habel, Berlin and Darmstadt 1970, p. 128

Web links

Commons : Michael Köhler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Secretariat of the People's Chamber on behalf of the President of the People's Chamber of the GDR (ed.) "The People's Chamber of the German Democratic Republic: 5th Election Period" , Berlin, Staatsverlag der DDR, 1967, p. 369
personal data
SURNAME Koehler, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German luge, MdV (FDJ)
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Zwickau