Rudi Gauch
Rudolf "Rudi" Gauch (born May 8, 1915 in Gundersheim ; † January 28, 1979 in Kiel ) was a German gymnast of the war and post-war years (1940–1961), German champion and member of the German national team. As a lecturer at the University Institute for Physical Exercise (HIfL) at the University of Kiel , he trained school sports teachers in gymnastics for 32 years .
Athletic career
Rudi Gauch, who comes from near Worms , came to Kiel during the war. He first played soccer in his youth and later switched to gymnastics.
In 1941 he achieved a 9th place at the German Gymnastics Championships in Karlsruhe in the all-around. In 1942 he was German runner-up in the Olympic twelve-way gymnastics and German ring champion, in 1951 with 113.45 points fourth in the German championships and in 1952 Rudi Gauch was 37 years old on the Olympic team for Helsinki. He started for the Kiel Men's Gymnastics Club until 1952 and then for the Kieler Turnerbund Brunswik.
As a university gymnastics and sports teacher in Kiel, he trained generations of teachers and was also the head of discipline in artistic gymnastics at the General German University Sports Association . Like his colleague Karl Wiepcke in rowing, Rudi Gauch made the Kiel University Institute for physical exercise known far beyond the national borders in artistic gymnastics. A university sports hall was available to him for training the Kiel student team, in which the gymnastics equipment was in the fire (sawdust). Rudi Gauch made his experience as a state gymnastics supervisor available to the Schleswig-Holstein Gymnastics Association. From 1971 he was active as a coach at TSV Kronshagen and built up the later Bundesliga team there.
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Gauch graduated from 1938 to 1942 as a physical education teacher at the Marinesportschule Berlin and from 1938 to 1944 was a German naval master in artistic gymnastics. In 1942 he completed his training with the gymnastics and sports teacher examination at the University of Physical Education in Leipzig and became German master of the rings. The German horse jumping championship followed in 1944.
From 1940 to 1955 Gauch took part in the German Artistic Gymnastics Championships (Olympic Twelve Fight) and from 1940 to 1959 he was a member of the German national team, with which he took part in international matches against Hungary, Italy, Belarus, Slovakia, Switzerland, Finland and France. In 1952 he was a member of the Olympic team in Helsinki.
Between 1954 and 1961 he was national team champion of Schleswig-Holstein.
After his active sports career, Rudi Gauch was an international referee at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich and, from 1946 to 1978, lecturer at the Institute for Sports Science at Kiel University . During this time he was the discipline chief of the General German University Association in artistic gymnastics.
Gauch was ten times winner of national comparison competitions and 15 years as regional art gymnast.
Rudi Gauch was married to Lotte Gauch, née Prien, with whom he had four children.
Publications
In 1964, together with Winfried Donnhauser and Walter Häusler, Gauch published the book "Floor and apparatus gymnastics - ways to performance" at Limpert-Verlag Frankfurt, the second edition of which appeared in 1970.
Awards
The state capital of Kiel named the gymnastics gymnastics hall at Winterbeker Weg 47, 24114 Kiel, inaugurated in 1991, after Rudi Gauch.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deutsche Turnzeitung , Berlin February 9, 1941 (episode 6 / 86th year), p. 50.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gauch, Rudi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gauch, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gymnast of the war and post-war years (1940–1961), German champion and member of the German national team |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gundersheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 28, 1979 |
| Place of death | Kiel |