Rosemarie Springer

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Rosemarie Springer , divorced Alsen (* July 5, 1920 as Rosemarie Lorenz in Danzig ; † April 2, 2019 ) was a German dressage rider who won the German championship five times and took part in the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome. From 1953 to 1961 she was the third wife of the publisher Axel Springer .

Life

Rosemarie Alwine Anneliese Lorenz was born in 1920 as the eldest of three children of Werner Lorenz and Charlotte Lorenz, b. Ventzki, born. Her father Werner Lorenz, who married her mother ten months before she was born in September 1919, was a Pomeranian landowner's son who had fought as an officer in the First World War and then in a volunteer corps in the Eastern Border Guard . Her mother Charlotte Lorenz came from a wealthy and socially high-ranking family in Graudenz in West Prussia , which now belonged to Poland. With his wife's money, Werner Lorenz bought the Mariensee estate in the Free City of Danzig , where Rosemarie grew up. Her parents sent Rosemarie together with her younger sister Jutta (* 1922) to a girls' boarding school in England, where they met members of European society. Her father Werner Lorenz made a career in the SS and made it as SS-Obergruppenführer up to the rank of general and led a. a. the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle . A contemporary described the Lorenz daughters in 1942 as “wild beauties with long legs […], darlings of the Reich Chancellor [sc. Hitler ] and debutantes who stood out all over Germany-occupied Europe, these beautiful spoiled children [...] ”. Rosemarie Lorenz spoke perfect English and French and, as a child, traveled from Gdansk with her parents on vacation to Sylt .

In her first marriage, Rosemarie Lorenz was married to the Hamburg cement manufacturer Horst-Herbert Alsen (1918–2001), owner of the Alsen Portland cement factory near Itzehoe , which is now part of Holcim . Horst-Herbert Alsen was friends with Axel Springer , who was how he met Rosemarie Alsen. Rosemarie separated from her first husband in order to marry Springer in 1953. The marriage remained childless. In the year of their wedding, Axel and Rosemarie Springer bought a Frisian house in Kampen from Annemarie Seidel for 45,000 DM , which the architect Otto Heinrich Strohmeyer had built in 1929 for the musicologist Anthony van Hoboken and his wife Annemarie "Mirl" Seidel. Seidel had married Peter Suhrkamp for the second time in 1935 , who now acquired the rights for the German complete edition by Marcel Proust with part of the money raised by Springer .

Rosemarie Springer was discovered as a rider in Berlin in 1950 . There she met the show jumper Hans Günter Winkler at a tournament , who recognized her talent and recommended her to the dressage trainer Willi Schultheis . In 1960 she won the German championship in dressage for the first time . In the same year she took part in the Olympic Games in Rome and reached seventh place there. In 1961 she was divorced from Axel Springer, who left her for Helga Springer, née Ludewig. Helga Springer and Rosemarie Springer were previously married to Horst-Herbert Alsen. By 1965 Rosemarie Springer had won the German dressage championship four times. In 1966 she won the German Dressage Derby in Klein Flottbek.

After her active time, she dealt with the breeding of Trakehners on her Gut Halloh near Bad Bramstedt , north of Hamburg , and trained dressage riders herself. One of the dressage horses she successfully rode herself - Thyra von Trebonius - was a Trakehner. In 1995, on her 75th birthday, Rosemarie Springer was awarded the German Equestrian Cross in Gold by the German Equestrian Association for her services to the sport.

She also produced DLG- winning premium milk at Gut Halloh, where she lived until her death. At the age of 90, Rosemarie Springer gave riding lessons and went skiing in the Alps.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rosemarie Springer deceased , Uta Helkenberg / Deutsche Reiteriche Vereinigung, April 3, 2019
  2. ↑ Valdis O. Lumans: Werner Lorenz - head of the "People's Mittelstelle" . In: Ronald Smelser , Enrico Syring (ed.): "The SS: Elite under the skull". Schöningh, Paderborn 2000, ISBN 3-506-78562-1 , pp. 334-335.
  3. ^ Rosie Waldeck (Rosie Goldschmidt): Athene Palace . RM McBride and company, New York 1942, pp. 304f.
  4. ↑ Kristine von Soden: "In this world the human word is not valid ..." (PDF file; 122 kB). Peter Suhrkamp and his author guest house on Sylt . SWR2 literature, manuscript of the broadcast on March 31, 2009, 10:05 p.m., pp. 28–29.
  5. ↑ a b Inge Kloepfer: The woman from the island and her great love . In: Die Welt from February 6, 2005.
  6. ↑ Kristine von Soden: "In this world the human word is nothing ...". Peter Suhrkamp and his author guest house on Sylt . SWR2 literature, manuscript of the broadcast on March 31, 2009, 10:05 p.m., p. 27.
  7. ↑ Kristine von Soden: "In this world the human word is nothing ...". Peter Suhrkamp and his author guest house on Sylt . SWR2 literature, manuscript of the broadcast on March 31, 2009, 10:05 p.m., p. 32.
  8. ↑ Werner Langmaack: Plea for changing horses in dressage in Klein Flottbek . In: Die Welt from May 11, 2010.
  9. ↑ It doesn't work without dressage! . In: reitsport MAGAZIN , from November 2008, ISSN  1862-782X .
  10. ↑ Grand Prize for “Gut Halloh” ( Memento from July 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ). In: Hamburger Abendblatt of October 27, 1970.
  11. ^ Werner Langmaack: Ritte of the century . In: Die Welt from February 19, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Springer, Rosemarie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alsen, Rosemarie; Lorenz, Rosemarie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dressage rider
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH 2nd April 2019