Olympic Winter Games 1956 / Participant (Germany)

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Germany took part in the VII Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956 with an all-German team of 63 athletes (11 women and 52 men). The team consisted of 52 athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany and eleven athletes from the German Democratic Republic .

Standard bearer

The bobsleigh driver Andreas Ostler carried the flag of the all-German team during the opening ceremony.

• See also : List of the flag bearers of the German teams at the Olympic Games

Medals

The German participants were able to win a gold and a bronze medal, placing Germany ninth in the medal table.

Medal table

rank	sport	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Alpine skiing	1	-	-	1
2	Ski jumping	-	-	1	1
total		1	-	1	2

Medalist

Name / s	sport	competition
gold
Ossi Reichert	Alpine skiing	Giant slalom
bronze
Harry Glass	Ski jumping	Normal hill

Participants by sport

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Athletes	competition	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		total
		time	rank	time	rank	time	rank	time	rank	time	rank
Men
Hans Rösch Lorenz Nieberl	Two-man bobsleigh	1: 26.92	14th	1: 24.08	6th	1: 25.21	9	1: 25.13	6th	5: 41.34	9
Andreas Ostler Hans Hohenester	Two-man bobsleigh	1: 24.63	4th	1: 24.89	10	1: 25.07	8th	1: 25.54	8th	5: 40.13	8th
Hans Rösch Michael Pössinger Lorenz Nieberl Sylvester Wackerle	Four-man bobsleigh	1: 18.61	6th	1: 19.04	8th	1: 19.43	7th	1: 20.94	13	5: 18.02	6th
Franz Schelle Jakob Nirschl Hans Henn Edmund Koller	Four-man bobsleigh	1: 19.03	9	1: 18.84	7th	1: 19.31	6th	1: 21.32	15th	5: 18.50	8th

ice Hockey

competition	Men
player	Paul Ambros Martin Beck Anton Biersack Karl Bierschel Markus Egen Arthur Endress Bruno Guttowski Alfred Hoffmann Hans Huber Ulli Jansen Günther Jochems Reiner Kossmann Rudolf Pittrich Hans Rampf Kurt Sepp Ernst Trautwein Martin Zach
Trainer	Frank Trottier
Preliminary round	Canada 0-4 Italy 2-2 Austria 7-0
Final round	United States 2: 7 Soviet Union 0: 8 Canada 0:10 Czechoslovakia 3: 9 Sweden 1: 1
placement	6th

figure skating

Athletes	Competitions	Short program	Freestyle	total
		rank	rank	Points	rank
Women
Rose Pettinger	singles	11	6th	152.04	10
Men
Tilo Gutzeit	singles	10	11	141.08	10
Mixed
Marika Kilius Franz Ningel	Pair skating	-		10.98	4th

Speed ​​skating

Athletes	Competitions	time	rank
Men
Helmut Kuhnert	500 m	44.0 s	34
	5000 m	8: 04.3 min	9
	10,000 m	17: 04.6 min	10
Hans Keller	1500 m	2: 18.1 min	35
	5000 m	8: 24.5 min	30th
	10,000 m	17: 27.7 min	21st

Nordic combination

Athletes	competition	Ski jumping					Cross-country skiing			total
		1. Width	2. Width	3. Width	Points	rank	time	Points	rank	Points	rank
Men
Helmut Böck	singles	97.0 m	93.0 m	91.5 m	190.0	24	59:13 min	228.70	11	418.70	19th
Gerhard Glass	singles	103.0 m	100.5 m	77.0 m	203.5	9	1:04:17 h	209.10	30th	412.60	24
Heinz Hauser	singles	93.0 m	101.0 m	94.0 m	195.0	20th	1:00:43 h	222.90	17th	417.90	21st
Herbert Leonhardt	singles	79.5 m	89.0 m	88.0 m	177.0	32	1:01:34 h	219.60	23	396.60	28

Alpine skiing

Athletes	Competitions	1st run		2nd run		total
		time	rank	time	rank	time	rank
Women
Annemarie Buchner	Departure	-				DNF
	Giant slalom	-				2: 05.0 min	27
	slalom	1: 01.7 min	18th	1: 11.8 min *	28	2: 18.5 min	21st
Hannelore Glaser	Departure	-				1: 54.7 min	29
	Giant slalom	-				2: 02.7 min	19th
	slalom	1: 01.8 min	19th	1: 02.9 min	17th	2: 04.7 min	14th
Ossi Reichert	Departure	-				1: 52.3 min	20th
	Giant slalom	-				1: 56.5 min	gold
	slalom	1: 07.8 min	24	DSQ
Sonja Sperl	Departure	-				1: 57.8 min	32
Marianne Strange	Giant slalom	-				2: 01.4 min	12
	slalom	DSQ
Men
Hans-Peter Lanig	Departure	-				2: 59.8 min	5
	Giant slalom	-				3: 08.6 min	7th
Sepp Behr	Departure	-				3: 07.7 min	12
	Giant slalom	-				3: 11.4 min	8th
	slalom	1: 33.3 min	15th	DSQ
Josef Schwaiger	Departure	-				3: 22.2 min	20th
	Giant slalom	-				3: 23.5 min	26th
Benedikt Obermüller	Giant slalom	-				3: 42.9 min	48
	slalom	1: 32.3 min	10	1: 55.2 min	10	3: 37.5 min	9
Rochus Wagner	slalom	1: 48.7 min	32	2: 28.7 min	42	4: 17.4 min	34
Karl Zillibiller	Departure	-				3: 21.6 min	19th
	slalom	1: 36.6 min	26th	2: 23.6 min	34	4: 00.2 min	25th

^* Including 5 penalty seconds.

Cross-country skiing

Athletes	Competitions	time	rank
Women
Else Amann	10 km	42:22 min	20th
Sonnhilde house sign	10 km	42:22 min	20th
Elfriede Uhlig	10 km	43:15 min	26th
Rita Czech-Blasel	10 km	43:51 min	29
Else Amann Sonnhilde house sign Elfriede Uhlig	3 × 5 km relay	1:15:33 h	7th
Men
Helmut Hagg	15 km	56:50 min	46
Rudolf Kopp	15 km	54:31 min	31
Siegfried Weiss	15 km	54:29 min	29
Kuno Werner	15 km	54:18 min	27
Erich Lindenlaub	30 km	1:58:30 h	33
Hermann Möchel	30 km	1:56:34 h	30th
Werner Moring	30 km	2:00:55 h	40
	50 km	3:20:32 h	20th
Kuno Werner Siegfried White Rudolf Kopp Hermann Möchel	3 × 10 km relay	2: 26.37 h	10

Ski jumping

Athletes	competition	1st round			2nd round			total
		Expanse	Points	rank	Expanse	Points	rank	Points	rank
Women
Max Bolkart	Normal hill	80.0 m	111.5	3	81.5 m	111.0	4th	222.5	4th
Harry Glass	Normal hill	83.5 m	115.0	1	80.5 m	109.5	7th	224.5	bronze
Sepp Kleisl	Normal hill	73.0 m	95.0	29	71.0 m	94.0	26th	189.0	26th
Werner Lesser	Normal hill	77.5 m	105.0	10	77.5 m	105.0	8th	210.0	8th

Web links

• All-German Olympic team 1956 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )