Reiner Klimke

Reiner Klimke on Ahlerich at the 1988 Olympic Games

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Reiner Klimke shows piaffe and passage

Reiner Klimke (born January 14, 1936 in Münster ; † August 17, 1999 ibid) was a successful German dressage and eventing rider and politician ( CDU ). He is one of the most successful summer Olympians . For many years he was the most successful Olympic participant in Germany until he was replaced by Birgit Fischer at the 2000 Summer Olympics . Klimke was the world's most victorious dressage rider for a long time before he was replaced by Isabell Werth .

He was named Sportsman of the Year at the Sports Ball in 1974, 1981, 1982 and 1988 by the Sports Association of the City of Münster. The sports association of the city of Münster honored him with the sports Oscar in 2000.

In 2008 Reiner Klimke was inducted into the Hall of Fame of German Sports . He was also a holder of the Silver Laurel Leaf and the Order of Merit of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia .

Eventing rider

Klimke began riding in 1948 at the Westphalian Riding and Driving School in Münster. He gained his first tournament experience in eventing in Paderborn in 1950 , followed by his first international appearance in Thun in 1955 . At the European Eventing Championships in Copenhagen in 1957 , he won the silver medal, and in 1959 the gold medal in Harewood House , each in the team competition. In 1960 he took part in the Olympic Games in Rome and won the German championship.

Dressage rider

At the Olympic Games he won a total of six gold and two bronze medals. He was world champion six times and European champion eleven times. At the Olympic Games in 1988 he was the flag bearer of the German team at the opening ceremony .

His most successful and well-known horse was Ahlerich , with whom he was able to win Olympic victories, world and European championships and seven German championships .

In 1984 he was awarded the FN gold medal with laurel, Olympic rings and diamonds. In 1986 he was made an honorary citizen of his hometown Münster . There a street was named after him on the Sentruper Höhe. He is the father of the dressage rider Michael Klimke and the dressage and eventing rider Ingrid Klimke .

education and profession

After graduating from high school in 1955, he studied law and political science at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, and was awarded a Dr. jur. obtained his doctorate and then worked as an independent lawyer and notary. During his studies he became a member of the fraternity of the Pflüger Halle zu Münster, to which he remained closely connected throughout his life.

Party and MP

He had been a member of the CDU since 1950. He was a member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia from May 31, 1990 to May 31, 1995. There he was deputy chairman of the sports committee.

Last years

Until his death, Klimke worked on a comeback planned for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. On August 17, 1999, Klimke died at the age of 63 as a result of his second heart attack . His grave is in the Münster Central Cemetery .

Greatest successes

versatility

• 1957 European Championships in Copenhagen: team silver medal
• 1959 European Championships in Harewood: Gold medal team
• 1960 German championships: gold medal individual on winemaker

dressage

• Olympic games
  • 1964 in Tokyo : Gold medal team, individual ranking 7th on Dux
  • 1968 in Mexico City : gold medal team, bronze medal individual on Dux
  • 1976 in Montreal : gold medal team, bronze medal individual on Mehmed
  • 1984 in Los Angeles : gold medal team, gold medal individual on Ahlerich
  • 1988 in Seoul : Gold medal team, individual ranking 7th on Ahlerich
• Olympic substitute competitions of the boycotting states
  • 1980, Goodwood House : Gold medal team, bronze medal individual on Ahlerich
• World Championship
  • 1966 in Bern : team gold medal, individual bronze medal on Dux
  • 1974 in Copenhagen : gold medal team, gold medal individual on Mehmed
  • 1982 in Lausanne : gold medal team, gold medal individual on Ahlerich
  • 1986 in Cedar Valley: Gold medal team individual ranking 4th on Pascal
• European Championship
  • 1965 in Copenhagen : Gold medal team, silver medal individual on Arcadius
  • 1967 in Aachen : gold medal team, gold medal individual on Dux
  • 1969 in Wolfsburg : Gold medal team, individual ranking 4th on Dux
  • 1971 in Wolfsburg: Gold medal team on Mehmed
  • 1973 in Aachen: gold medal team, gold medal individual on Mehmed
  • 1981 in Laxenburg: Gold medal team on Ahlerich
  • 1983 in Aachen: Gold medal team, silver medal individual on Ahlerich
  • 1985 in Copenhagen: gold medal team, gold medal individual on Ahlerich
• Further
  • nine times German champion (1967 on Dux , 1975 on Mehmed , 1978, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988 on Ahlerich )

various

In Münster, the Reiner Klimke Prize is awarded as an honorary prize for Münster's sports clubs.

Works

• Reiner Klimke: Basic training for young riding horses. From foal training to the first tournament start . Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-440-05380-6 .
• Ingrid Klimke, Reiner Klimke: Profitips Cavaletti. Dressage and jumping . Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-440-07464-1 .
• Klimke, Reiner: Ahlerich. From remonte to dressage world champion. An exemplary training path . Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim 1995, ISBN 3-487-08347-7 .
• Reiner Klimke: Military. History - training - competition . Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, Stuttgart 1967, ISBN 3-440-04579-X .
• Reiner Klimke, Werner Ernst: From the beauty of dressage. From the young horse to the Grand Prix . Franckh-Kosmos, 1991, ISBN 3-440-06313-5 .
• Reiner Klimke (Ed.): Holidays in the saddle. Free time in FN-recognized training centers . FN-Verlag, Warendorf 2000, ISBN 3-88542-300-6 .
• Dagmar Schindler, Reiner Klimke (Ed.), Ortrud Stahl (Ill.): Holidays in the saddle. Free time on Germany's beautiful riding stables . FN-Verlag, Warendorf 1993, ISBN 3-88542-260-3 .
• Reiner Klimke: Holidays in the saddle. Germany's most beautiful holiday farms . Geocenter, 2001, ISBN 3-7690-0589-9 .
• Johann Elias Ridinger, Reiner Klimke: The small riding school . Buses and Seewald, Herford 1984, ISBN 3-87120-052-2 .
• Reiner Klimke, Bernd Capell: Lexicon for horse lovers . CJ Bucher, Frankfurt a. M. 1976, ISBN 3-7658-0221-2 .

Olympic games

The following works were published for the Olympic Games:

• Reiner Klimke, Frantisek Jandl, Werner Lutz: Reiterspiele Mexico 1968. Olympiad , Aschendorff, Münster 1968, ISBN 3-402-06370-0 .
• Reiner Klimke, Albert Stecken, Helmut Müller: Munich '72. Olympic Equestrian Games. Military, dressage, show jumping . Aschendorff,

Münster 1972, ISBN 3-402-06371-9 .

• Reiner Klimke, Albert Stecken, Helmut Müller: Montreal '76. Olympic Equestrian Games. Games, facts, comments, backgrounds . Aschendorff, Münster 1982, ISBN 3-402-06373-5 .
• Harry Boldt, Olaf Petersen, Heinz Schütte, Reiner Klimke (eds.): Olympia der Reiter. Seoul 1988 . FN-Verlag, Warendorf 1988, ISBN 3-88542-199-2 .
• Reiner Klimke (Hrsg.), Werner Ernst (Hrsg.): Olympia der Reiter. Barcelona 1992 . FN-Verlag, Warendorf 1992, ISBN 3-88542-253-0 .
• Reiner Klimke, Werner Ernst: Olympia of the riders. Atlanta 1996 . FN-Verlag, Warendorf 1996, ISBN 3-7843-2808-3 , and 1998, ISBN 3-88542-282-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Westfälische Nachrichten : Sports legends: Dr. Reiner Klimke tops the list: Münster's most successful Olympians , Münster, Michael Schulte, August 9, 2012
2. ↑ ^{a b} Westfälische Nachrichten : The last round has started - high-speed final spurt: Many candidates are already giving full throttle in the new year , Münster's athlete of the year 2012, January 30, 2013
3. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. (PDF) State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 . 
4. ↑ German Equestrian Association: Annual Report 2008 ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2011 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. , Page 39, accessed November 16, 2010 
5. ↑ Doctorates to Dr. iur. at the Municipal Science Institute since 1948. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 13, 2016 ; accessed on August 13, 2016 . 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.  
6. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, March 26, 2000, p. 3
7. ↑ http://www1.wdr.de/stichtag/stichtag344~_mon-082004_tag-17082004.html
8. ↑ Jasper Nissen: Horses, Riders, Drivers, Breeders , Mosaik Verlag, 1979, ISBN 3-570-00495-3
9. ↑ Star portrait - Dr. Reiner Klimke. March 1998, accessed July 31, 2012 . 
10. ↑ Star portrait - Dr. Reiner Klimke. March 1998, accessed January 11, 2010 . 

Web links

Commons : Reiner Klimke  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Reiner Klimke at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
• Literature by and about Reiner Klimke in the catalog of the German National Library
• Reiner Klimke in the Munzinger archive , accessed on July 12, 2020 ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Portrait, dates and biography of Reiner Klimke in the Hall of Fame of German Sports
• Reiner Klimke Prize from the City of Münster