Otto Peltzer

Otto Peltzer
Otto Peltzer (1928)
Full name	Otto Paul Eberhard Peltzer
nation	German Empire
birthday	March 8, 1900
place of birth	Drage ,  German Empire
size	186 cm
Weight	72 kg
job	Teacher
date of death	August 11, 1970
Place of death	Eutin ,  Federal Republic of Germany
Career
discipline	Short distance run medium distance run
Best performance	10.9 s ( 100 m ) 16.2 s ( 110 m hurdles ) 22.1 s ( 200 m ) 47.8 s ( 400 m ) 54.4 s ( 400 m hurdles ) 1: 03.6 min (500 m) 1: 51.6 min ( 800 m ) 2: 25.8 min ( 1000 m ) 3: 51.0 min ( 1500 m ) 5: 28.3 min ( 2000 m ) 32: 47.0 min ( 10,000 m ) 51: 10.0 min (15,000 m)
society	SC Prussia 1901 Stettin TSV 1860 Munich Idrottsforening Linnéa Stockholm
Medal table
German championships 15 × 2 × 0 ×
German championships gold Duisburg 1922 1500 m gold Frankfurt am Main 1923 800 m gold Frankfurt am Main 1923 1500 m gold Szczecin 1924 800 m gold Szczecin 1924 1500 m gold Berlin 1925 800 m gold Berlin 1925 1500 m gold Leipzig 1926 400 m gold Leipzig 1926 400 m hurdles gold Leipzig 1926 1500 m gold Leipzig 1926 3 × 1000 m relay gold Berlin 1927 400 m hurdles silver Düsseldorf 1928 4 × 1500 m relay silver Wroclaw 1929 800 m gold Berlin 1931 800 m gold Hanover 1932 800 m gold Nuremberg 1934 800 m

Otto Paul Eberhard Peltzer (born March 8, 1900 at Gut Ellernbrook in Drage ; † August 11, 1970 in Eutin ) was a German athlete who was particularly successful as a middle-distance runner . Apart from that, he worked as a journalist , eugenicist , teacher and trainer.

Peltzer's running career began in 1920. In 1922 he became German champion for the first time, and by 1934 another 14 titles followed. His best international result was a fourth place at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles . In total, Peltzer set four world records. Even a “ racial hygienist ” and a member of the National Socialist SS until 1935 , he was arrested and sentenced by the Nazi judiciary that year for his homosexuality and child abuse, whereupon he emigrated to Sweden and Finland in 1938 . In 1940 his German citizenship was revoked. After his extradition to Germany he was used as a forced laborer in the Mauthausen and Ebensee concentration camps from 1941 until the end of the war . He survived an operation by the notorious SS doctor Aribert Heim in Mauthausen concentration camp . In post-war Germany he remained marginalized. From 1959 Peltzer dedicated himself as national coach to the young sport in Indian athletics. In 1967 Peltzer returned to Germany, where he died in 1970 of a heart attack.

Family and personal

Otto Peltzer was born on March 8, 1900 in Drage, Schleswig-Holstein, on the Ellernbrook estate as the son of the estate owner Paul Peltzer and his wife Elly, née. Radbruch born. He had a brother and two sisters. The family died when the Red Army marched into the Peltzers' later residence in Köselitz in spring 1945. Despite his homosexual inclinations, Peltzer was engaged. Nothing is known about his relationship with Gerda May, who remained childless.

Peltzer looked weak and was prone to disease. In competitions he always separated himself from the team. His teammates thought he was crazy because of such idiosyncrasies. The nickname "Otto the Strange" coined in 1925 the hurdler Heinrich Troßbach in a newspaper article.

Childhood and youth

Peltzer developed polio at a young age . As a result of this he suffered all his life from a left-sided shortening of his extremities and rheumatism . At times he was dependent on a wheelchair . Peltzer spent a considerable amount of time with his grandfather in Krefeld , where he attended a private school and a high school. From 1913 he was taught at the upper secondary school in Stargard , from which he graduated with the upper prima . After the outbreak of World War I , he joined the youth armed forces . There Peltzer ran for the first time and as a 17-year-old he jumped the 6-meter mark in the long jump . In the summer of 1918 he joined the Grenadier Regiment "King Friedrich Wilhelm IV." (1st Pomeranian) No. 2 as a war volunteer and flag junior . The training took place at the ensign school in Berlin. Peltzer passed his Abitur as the best in his year at the Bismarck secondary school in Szczecin. During this time and afterwards he was a member of the youth movement . In this, Peltzer dedicated himself to athletics.

Athletic career

1920–1924: beginnings and advancement

In 1920 Peltzer became a member of SC Preußen Stettin . For this club he became the Pomeranian Champion this spring and won the 400 and 1500 meter distance at the Baltic Championships in Gdansk . At the subsequent German Athletics Championships in Dresden , he was eliminated in the preliminary runs to the 800 and 1500 meter run. His parents wanted Peltzer to become an engineer . But the position as a volunteer at the Szczecin Vulcan works was not for him. Instead, he studied law and political science in Jena , Munich and Berlin from autumn 1920 . On May 29, 1921 Peltzer beat the reigning record holder over the 400 meter hurdles Gerhard von Massow in Berlin-Neukölln , for which he received the right to start at the 1st International Stadium Sports Festival , which took place on July 3 in the Grunewald Stadium . In the local 800-meter run he came third.

During his studies in Berlin, Peltzer became a member of the Association of German Students Berlin and visited the German University for Physical Education several times . There Peltzer got in touch with his future supervisor Martin Brustmann . In addition to his studies, Peltzer earned money as a co-founder and editor of the youth magazine “Reichswacht”, which later went bankrupt. The paper was close to the federation for the preservation and increase of the German people's strength , which represented the principles of racial hygiene on the basis of eugenics . In 1922 Peltzer was German champion in the 1500 meter run at the German Athletics Championships in Duisburg . He also equalized the German records in the 500 and 1000 meter run. The sporting highlight in 1923 was the Gothenburg Games , which were considered the dress rehearsal for the 1924 Olympic Games . There Peltzer, who was meanwhile working as a reporter for the Ostsee-Zeitung , hoped to be able to compete against Paavo Nurmi . In the 800-meter run he fell and over the 1500-meter distance Peltzer was second behind Edvin Wide . His hope of participating in the Olympics was dashed when Germany was again excluded from the Games after 1920 . In the international match between Germany and Switzerland in Düsseldorf after the games, Peltzer could have fought for the top places there . In the 800-meter run, Peltzer defeated the silver medalist Paul Martin and, over the 1500-meter distance, Willy Schärer , also Olympic runner-up. In addition, Peltzer was four times German champion in the 800 and 1500 meters in 1923 and 1924.

1925–1932: career high point

Peltzer on September 11, 1926 after his world record run over 1500 meters in Berlin.

1925 doctorate Peltzer on "The ratio of social policy for racial hygiene". In his dissertation, Peltzer stood behind the principles of eugenics and advocated the abolition of Section 218 of the Criminal Code . He rejected coercive measures against "degenerate" people. Instead, criminals and the insane should be forcibly sterilized . " Asocial " and seriously degenerate people should be separated from the rest of society and placed in labor colonies. With such publications the representatives of eugenics, including Peltzer, prepared the ground for the later implementation of the euthanasia programs in Hitler's Germany . His work was rated summa cum laude . On a sporting level, Peltzer was two-time German champion in the 800 and 1500 meter races. In addition, he set new German records over the 500 and 800 meter distances.

In 1926 Peltzer rose to join the international elite of runners. In June he ran in Budapest against László Barsi in the 500-meter run with a world record of 1: 03.6 minutes . Only one month later, Peltzer, who was to take up a position as a teacher at the Free School Community of Wickersdorf from autumn 1926, defeated Olympic champion Douglas Lowe at the English championships over 880 yards with 1: 51.6 minutes, also in a new world record. This was followed on September 11 with a victory over Nurmi in the 1,500 meter run (3: 51.0 min), world record number three. In addition to numerous honors, Peltzer received an advertising contract with the Kathreiner coffee roasting company for this . In addition, Peltzer was four-time German champion at the German Athletics Championships in Leipzig and had broken as many national records. His publication “Past and Future of German Athletics” also appeared on the book market in the same year. Peltzer's dominance led some French athletes to doubt his amateur status , which in turn led to an investigation by the German Sports Confederation . The allegations against him, u. a. the receipt of huge fee sums could not be confirmed and remained without consequences. In 1927 he was again German champion and ran on September 18 against Séra Martin with 2: 25.8 minutes in the Stade de Colombes over 1000 meters to his fourth world record.

In the winter of 1927/1928 Peltzer went on a study trip to the United States of America . This was followed by invitations from New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker and US President Calvin Coolidge to the White House in Washington . Back in Germany, Peltzer broke his metatarsus while playing field handball . The resulting training deficit could Peltzer make up neither at the German Athletics Championships in 1928 nor at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam . So Peltzer failed in the semifinals of the 800-meter run there, where he also fell out of favor with the German sports officials and his team when he collapsed completely exhausted after crossing the finish line. He also retired prematurely in the fifth heat on the 1500 meter distance.

The Amsterdam Olympic Stadium in 1928.

The Olympic failure led the German sports officials to gradually turn away from Peltzer. At the athletics championships in Wroclaw in 1929 , there was a scandal in the 800 meter final when Fredy Müller was declared the winner despite the opposite photo. This increased the animosity between Peltzer and the German Sports Association. In early October Peltzer took part in the international match against Japan in Tokyo , where he was able to appease the critics with his results. From Kobe he then traveled to Australia and New Zealand via China at the end of October 1929 . There Peltzer was on January 25, 1930 Australian champion over 880 yards. He achieved another victory with the season over 440 yards in Wellington, New Zealand . Even before Peltzer was due to return to Germany in June, the DSB made new allegations against him. This involved, among other things, the competition report of his pupil Gerhard Obermüller under a false name. As a result, Peltzer was excluded from the German Athletics Championships in 1930 . The allegations remained groundless as a result.

After his suspension was withdrawn, Peltzer became German champion in 1931 and 1932 over the 800-meter distance. At this time the National Socialists in Thuringia gained a lot of influence. Under their Prime Minister Fritz Sauckel , the school system was reorganized and aryanized , as a result of which, among other things, all teachers without a state-recognized apprenticeship exam lost their teaching license, including Peltzer, who was on his way to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles as team captain at that time . During the trip there were disputes between the team and the officials who had traveled with them regarding preferences and a lack of training opportunities. When Peltzer then suggested in Los Angeles that only active athletes should march in at the opening ceremony, there was a break with the head of the Olympic team, Carl Diem , who had long disliked Peltzer. He excluded Peltzer from all competitions. The decision was only reversed when the other athletes threatened to strike. Peltzer was ninth over the 800 meters and failed over 1500 meters in the preliminary round. In the 4 x 400 meter relay , he came fourth with the team. The German reporting was accordingly devastating.

1933–1937: marginalization and arrest

Peltzer served his sentence in the "Plötze".

After he was recalled from the teaching post, Peltzer was recruited by the Wickersdorf school community to recruit students. On May 1, 1933, he became a member of the NSDAP (membership number 3.280.146), which refused to give him the party card, and the SS (membership number 75.534), from which he was expelled on February 8, 1935. Up until this point in time, Peltzer had been hired as a speaker for the SS-Siedlungshauptamt and offered himself to Baldur von Schirach in order to be able to contribute his concepts for the design of sport and youth education. He even saw himself suitable for the post of Reich Sports Commissioner. In particular, Peltzer hoped for personal and professional success through the rapprochement with National Socialism, which, in addition to the rescue attempt for Wickersdorf, was a fundamental motive of his opportunistic endeavors. He only turned away when he realized that he himself had become a victim of the totalitarian state. Peltzer later described his National Socialist changeover as his greatest tactical mistake. With Hans von Tschammer und Osten as the new Reich Sports Leader, Peltzer's sporting decline accelerated. After his sixth place over the 800 meter distance at the German Athletics Championships in Cologne in 1933 - Peltzer was weakened by illness - he was not nominated by Tschammer und Osten for the international matches against England and France.

In October 1933 Peltzer moved to Berlin, where from June 1934 he devoted himself to building up the youth department in SC Teutonia 99 . At the German Athletics Championships taking place this year , Peltzer was German champion in the 800-meter run, although Tschammer and Osten had banned any reporting on Peltzer's success. Despite this victory, Peltzer was not placed in the squad for the international match against Sweden and the first edition of the European Athletics Championships in Turin , which Tschammer und Osten justified by saying that only those athletes who could guarantee success at the Olympic Games could be considered 1936 in Berlin.

1934 enhanced the NS system, the enforcement of homosexuals, whereafter Peltzer in the sense of the guided by the Nazis extermination as " people pest classified" and in late summer 1934 by the Gestapo was arrested. The allegation was against § 175 (homosexual tendencies) and § 176 StGB (sexual abuse of children) against the students entrusted to him (see short biographies on Arnold Ernst Fanck and Algirdas Savickis ). Thanks to Brustmann's intercession, he was released three weeks later. On March 16, 1935, Peltzer was arrested again. The corresponding doctrine came from Tschammer and Osten, who Peltzer intended to finally eliminate through a further process. The allegations were massages and body measurements in the naked state, bathing together and mutual masturbation . These allegations were questionable. Corresponding testimony was contradicting itself or had been blackmailed by the Nazi judiciary. The Berlin Regional Court sentenced Peltzer, who refrained from revision for fear of an aggravation of the sentence, for moral crimes to a total sentence of one year and six months. His imprisonment took place in the Plötzensee correctional facility . The consequences of the judgment overshadowed Peltzer's future life in all areas of life, as the case was neither processed nor reviewed in the Nazi era.

During his imprisonment, Peltzer was withdrawn from the Munich University of the doctorate, which continued in post-war Germany. On August 4, 1936, Peltzer was released from prison in order to suggest a peaceful Germany to the world in the wake of the 1936 Olympic Games . Peltzer used this to send letters to sports fans at home and abroad, in which he drew attention to his unlawful conviction. For this he was sentenced on August 18 to a total sentence of one year and ten months, which was suspended. Since his release from prison, Peltzer has been on the professional and social side. He was not allowed to work as a trainer or as a sports journalist and got by as a representative for carpets and floor mats. After Section 175 was tightened again, Brustmann advised him to leave Germany.

1938–1945: Escape and deportation

The Wiener Graben quarry in Mauthausen concentration camp, where Peltzer u. a. was used.

At the end of August 1938, Peltzer fled to Sweden . However, the local authorities only granted him a permit, which forced Peltzer to travel on to Helsinki . Through Nurmi he got a job at the Finnish Sports Institute in Vierumäki . During this time he lived in the steamer Rügen in the port of Helsinki . After alleged statements of defeatism and a seemingly homosexual situation, the captain of the ship ordered Peltzer to be arrested a few days before the outbreak of World War II. Peltzer escaped by fleeing to Sweden.

There he received a three-month residence permit and worked as a guest author for a sports newspaper. After renewing his license to practice medicine, he worked as a trainer for Idrottsforening Linnéa Stockholm . He turned down Tschammer und Osten's offer to bring Peltzer's rehabilitation through by proving himself at the front. After critical publications, Peltzer was asked to return to Germany at the end of March 1940, which he refused. After another refusal, his citizenship was revoked. This attitude led to further defamation of Peltzer in the press by high-ranking representatives of Nazi sports. When Peltzer published another article that was derogatory to German sport, the Foreign Office applied for it to be extradited through Reinhard Heydrich . The Swedish authorities then gave Peltzer two weeks to leave the country, which he did on February 10, 1941.

Arrived in Saßnitz , Peltzer was arrested, interrogated and taken to Berlin. He was then transferred to the Mauthausen concentration camp for “political re-education” . There he was listed as a prisoner with the number 2718 in category 175 and after initial abuse by SS members he was assigned to the construction team. Later he worked as a stone carrier in the "Wiener Graben". He survived an operation by the notorious SS doctor Aribert Heim . From the end of 1942 he was used in a punishment column in the quarry, where he was subjected to further reprisals from the guards. At the beginning of March 1944 he was transferred to the Ebensee concentration camp , where he was abused for the Siemens construction union to build tunnels and later used as a guard and clerk. In spring 1945 he was relocated to Mauthausen, where he experienced the American liberation in early May 1945. After several months in hospital, knowing that his family was dead and that all of his personal belongings had been lost, Peltzer made his way to Frankfurt am Main , where he found shelter in a bombed-out school and later in a disused bunker. He also appeared again in terms of sport when he won a 5000 meter run at the end of September.

1946–1958: humiliation and a fresh start

In 1946 Peltzer was heard as a witness in the main Mauthausen trial . He did not put any charges against members of the SS guards. Instead, he thanked the defendants Wilhelm Henkel and Erich Wasicky for their medical assistance to him for personal reasons . In 1947 his book Sport and Education was published. Thoughts about a redesign in which he pilloried the “calcified [sporting] system” in Germany. For this reason, the book met with little approval from the sports officials, especially since Peltzer unreservedly supported Anglo-American sport. Previously, he had already heavily criticized Carl Diem's ​​appointment as rector of the newly founded sports university in Cologne and other sports officials such as Woldemar Gerschler and Christian Busch who had been burdened with Nazi Germany . Because of these mutual antipathies, Peltzer's efforts to found a college for sports teacher training failed, as did his submitted amendment of the German sports badge . During this time, Peltzer wrote at short notice for the sports section of the Rhein-Zeitung . From spring 1947 he stayed in Zurich and Montana , Switzerland , where he worked as an educator. After his residence permit had expired, he returned to Frankfurt in the summer of 1948.

In December 1949, Peltzer became the coach of the most successful West German athletics club, the CSV 1910 Krefeld , which caused a public storm of indignation based on his well-known stigmata. When he recruited the 400-meter runner Hans Geister von Hamborn for the CSV a little later in his capacity as a coach , an investigation was initiated against Peltzer. In the DLV legal committee meeting on March 18, 1950, Peltzer was banned for six months for " pulling ". In the appeal hearing that took place a month later, this judgment was increased to two years, whereupon the CSV Peltzer resigned. After a serious motorcycle accident in October 1950, in which Peltzer et al. a. had suffered a fracture of the base of the skull, he found a job in the chemical-pharmaceutical factory Dr. August Wolff at the sports paper Alcina-Sport-Dienst published there .

In the summer of 1952, Peltzer took part in an athletics event in Leipzig's Bruno-Plache Stadium in the GDR , where he completed a lap of honor at an invitation from Gerda Harbig, Rudolf Harbig's widow . For this purpose, the DLV initiated a new investigation against him, which ended with an acquittal. When Peltzer took part in an event initiated by the FDJ in Dortmund , a Friedrich Jahn memorial ceremony, and joined the East German peace movement , he was now considered a communist and traitor, whereupon his employer fired him without notice. This accusation was reinforced when Peltzer's biographical novel Contested Life. Sports years between Nurmi and Zatopek , on which he had worked since 1953, published in 1955 by the East German publishing house der Nation .

In 1956 Peltzer took part in the Olympic Games in Melbourne as a press representative . Unofficially, this was an escape from an imminent new judicial investigation against Peltzer, who is known to be a sex offender in Germany. In Australia Peltzer tried in vain for a coaching position, whereupon he traveled on to Indonesia , Pakistan - here he was briefly hired as a trainer - and India . In November 1957 he received a temporary coaching contract from the Iranian Athletics Association, but this was prematurely terminated by Diems acting through the local German embassy, ​​which further discredited Peltzer as communists and homosexuals. Peltzer then traveled from April 1958 to Baghdad and Tokyo to the Asian Games there .

1959–1967: Indian club and national coach

From July 1959, Peltzer held lectures and training courses a. a. at the University of Delhi in India. Thereupon the Foreign Office informed twelve German embassies, six embassies and a consulate general in 19 countries in Asia and Africa that Peltzer would limit any support he might get during his travels to the bare minimum. In the meantime, Peltzer devoted himself entirely to the offspring of Indian athletics. He established the missing structures and gave decisive impulses in training and competition and thus finally rose to become the national athletics coach. One of his protégés was Milkha Singh . Peltzer worked for a monthly salary of only 533  rupees (about £ 30  ) and lived for years in a primitive wooden shed in the national stadium in Delhi. In 1960 his seventh and last book was published with the title Dr. Peltzer's extract of modern athletic systems . In October 1962, thanks to Peltzer's training, India won the international match against Germany.

From 1963 Peltzer's health deteriorated. Having become a smoker in Mauthausen as a result of hunger, he increasingly suffered from heart problems, which were favored by the subtropical climate of India. Furthermore, his tireless work with the athletes and street children he trained daily in the stadium overloaded him. Peltzer transferred the latter to the Olympic Youth Delhi (OYD) sports club, which he founded a little later - which today bears the name Otto Peltzer Memorial Athletic Club in his memory .

1967–1970: return and death

In the fall of 1967 Peltzer suffered a heart attack, after which he returned to Germany in December of the same year. After a long recovery phase, he trained as athletes again in Eutin. On August 11, 1970, Peltzer died of a heart attack during an evening sports festival in the immediate vicinity of the Waldeck sports field. Peltzer's death met with great media coverage and benevolent obituaries. The funeral ceremonies took place in Hamburg . The guests of condolence included representatives of the DLV and the CSC Marathon 1910 Krefeld , along with other personalities . Max Schmeling sent a funeral wreath.

reception

Stolperstein , Jahnstrasse 2, in Berlin-Kreuzberg

Peltzer polarized. In the twenties he was undisputedly the outstanding German athlete and was revered by broad sections of the population as well as by his opponents at home and abroad. On the other hand, his unconventional behavior offended the national sports officials, whereupon he gradually encountered aversion and demarcation. Peltzer's misfortune in post-war Germany was that precisely those sports officials came back to the switching centers of power with whom he had clashed before 1945, which is why he remained ostracized. Despite criticism of himself and the Nazi system, Peltzer did not embody the type of resistance fighter. His change only took place with the progressive awareness of the prevailing system of injustice, which culminated with his arrest and later deportation.

In memory of Peltzer is in Madras of since 1970. Dr. Otto Peltzer Cross Country Hill Race . In 1999 the DLV donated the Otto Peltzer Medal in his honor . The “ Stolpersteine ” campaign by Cologne artist Gunter Demnig placed a brass plaque in the pavement in the summer of 2008 in front of the athlete's former apartment at Jahnstrasse 2 in Berlin-Kreuzberg. The DLV took over the sponsorship for this action, which was organized by the Berlin coordination office of the action “Stumbling blocks” together with the Kreuzberg Museum. In a ceremony on August 8, 2008, the opening day of the Olympic Games in Beijing , the honorary president of the DLV, Theo Rous , and the Cologne sports historian Thomas Schnitzler traced the athlete's fate.

Achievements and Statistics

World records

Otto Peltzer set four world records, three of them in 1926.

distance	place	date	time
500 m	Budapest	0June 6, 1926	1: 03.6 min
880 yards	Stamford Bridge	0July 3, 1926	1: 51.6 min
1000 m	Colombes	Sep 18 1927	2: 25.8 min
1500 m	Berlin	Sep 11 1926	3: 51.0 min

German records

From 1922 to 1932 Peltzer set 19 German records.

distance	place	date	time
500 m	Munich	August 6, 1922	1: 05.7 min
1000 m	Stockholm	Sep 12 1922	2: 29.5 min
1500 m	Gothenburg	July 15, 1923	3: 59.4 min
2000 m	Copenhagen	July 1923	5: 28.3 min
3 × 1000 m relay	Munich	July 29, 1924	7: 48.9 min
800 m	Stockholm	July 15, 1925	1: 52.8 min
500 m	Dusseldorf	06 Sep 1925	1: 05.3 min
1500 m	Berlin	May 24, 1926	3: 58.6 min
500 m	Budapest	0June 6, 1926	1: 03.6 min
880 yards / 800 m	Stamford Bridge	0July 3, 1926	1: 51.6 min
400 m hurdles	Leipzig	0Aug 8, 1926	0: 54.9 min
1000 m	Dusseldorf	05th Sep 1926	2: 29.3 min
1500 m	Berlin	Sep 11 1926	3: 51.0 min
1000 m	Hamburg	Oct 17, 1926	2: 27.4 min
400 m hurdles	Berlin	July 17, 1927	0: 54.8 min
400 m hurdles	Dublin	Sep 11 1927	0: 54.4 min
1000 m	Colombes	Sep 18 1927	2: 25.8 min
4 × 800 m relay	Stamford Bridge	Aug 24, 1929	7: 44.8 min
4 × 400 m relay	los Angeles	0Aug 7, 1932	3: 14.4 min

Olympic games

In two Olympic participations, Peltzer achieved his best Olympic result with Jochen Büchner , Walter Nehb and Adolf Metzner at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles in the 4 x 400 meter relay with a 4th place.

distance	place	date	time	comment
800 m	Stadionbuurt	July 30, 1928	1: 56.3 min	eliminated in the 1st intermediate run
1500 m	Stadionbuurt	0Aug 1, 1928	-	eliminated in the 5th preliminary run
800 m	los Angeles	0Aug 2, 1932	1: 55.0 min	9th place in the final
1500 m	los Angeles	0Aug 4, 1932	-	abandoned in advance
4 × 400 m relay	los Angeles	0Aug 7, 1932	3: 14.4 min	4th place in the final

attachment

Fonts

• Otto Peltzer: Past and Future of German Athletics. Publishing house of the German sports authority for athletics, Munich 1925, DNB 577981579
• Otto Peltzer (Hrsg.): The training book of the athlete. Dick & Co, Stuttgart 1926, DNB 577980408
• Otto Peltzer (ed.), Charles Hoff: The way to success. A sporty guide book. Oldenburg 1927, DNB 560780885
• Otto Peltzer: Sport. A way to freedom and culture. German publishing house, Stuttgart 1946, DNB 453729681
• Otto Peltzer: Sport and Education. Thoughts about a redesign. Verlag der Greif, Wiesbaden 1947, DNB 453729703
• Otto Peltzer: Contested life: sports years between Nurmi and Zatopek. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1955, DNB 575627727
• Otto Peltzer: Dr. Peltzer's Extract of Modern Athletic Systems. Navsari 1960

literature

• Volker Kluge : Otto the Strange. The loneliness of a middle-distance runner: Otto Peltzer (1900–1970). Parthas-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-932529-74-X .
• Axel Schock , Karen-Susan Fessel : OUT! Querverlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89656-111-1 .
• Hans Joachim Teichler , Volker Kluge:  Peltzer, Otto Paul Eberhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 170 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Otto Peltzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Otto Peltzer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Newspaper article about Otto Peltzer in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
• Otto Peltzer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Joachim Teichler, Volker Kluge: Peltzer, Otto Paul Eberhard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2000, p. 170.
2. ↑ Volker Kluge: Otto the Strange. The loneliness of a middle distance runner. Otto Peltzer (1900-1970). Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2000, p. 12, 159-160.
3. ↑ Otto Peltzer: Contested life: Sports years between Nurmi and Zatopek. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1955, pp. 9-10.
4. ↑ Dr. Peltzer successful in Sydney. In:  Der Tag / Der Wiener Tag , January 21, 1930, p. 9 (online at ANNO ).
5. ↑ Dr. Peltzer - the eternal athlete. In:  Innsbrucker Nachrichten , August 20, 1934, p. 6 (online at ANNO ).
6. ↑ Volker Kluge: Otto the Strange. The loneliness of a middle distance runner. Otto Peltzer (1900-1970). Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2000, pp. 12, 23-24.
7. ↑ Volker Kluge: Otto the Strange. The loneliness of a middle distance runner. Otto Peltzer (1900-1970). Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2000, pp. 10, 13-18.
8. ↑ Otto Peltzer: Contested life: Sports years between Nurmi and Zatopek. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1955, pp. 11-19.
9. ↑ Volker Kluge: Otto the Strange. The loneliness of a middle distance runner. Otto Peltzer (1900-1970). Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2000, pp. 18-21.
10. ↑ Otto Peltzer: Contested life: Sports years between Nurmi and Zatopek. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1955, pp. 23–39.
11. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 168.
12. ↑ Otto Peltzer: Contested life: Sports years between Nurmi and Zatopek. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1955, pp. 40–43.
13. ↑ Volker Kluge: Otto the Strange. The loneliness of a middle distance runner. Otto Peltzer (1900-1970). Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2000, pp. 22-27, p. 36.
14. ↑ Otto Peltzer: Contested life: Sports years between Nurmi and Zatopek. Verlag der Nation, Berlin 1955, pp. 40–63.
15. ↑ Volker Kluge: Otto the Strange. The loneliness of a middle distance runner. Otto Peltzer (1900-1970). Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2000, p. 28.
16. ^ Theo Rous: All in all. An official's swan songs. Collection of speeches and writings by the honorary president of the DLV. Norderstedt 2014, pp. 127-131.
17. ↑ "Since at that time no one had reached 1: 51.1 (sic) over 800 m, Peltzer was also credited with this time as an 800 m world record." Sports magazine Kicker of May 31, 1973, page 19
18. ↑ Volker Kluge: Otto the Strange. The loneliness of a middle distance runner. Otto Peltzer (1900-1970). Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2000, pp. 31-57.
19. ↑ Volker Kluge: Otto the Strange. The loneliness of a middle distance runner. Otto Peltzer (1900-1970). Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2000, pp. 58-66.
20. ↑ Volker Kluge: Otto the Strange. The loneliness of a middle distance runner. Otto Peltzer (1900-1970). Parthas Verlag, Berlin 2000, pp. 58-68.
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