Rudolf Klupsch

Rudolf Klupsch
nation	German Empire
birthday	June 26, 1905
place of birth	Jena ,  German Empire
size	173 cm
Weight	69 kg
date of death	May 18, 1992
Place of death	Jena ,  Germany
Career
discipline	Sprint , 400 m hurdles
Best performance	400 m: 48.5 s
society	1. SV Jena
Medal table
German championships 0 × 1 × 0 ×
German championships silver Jena 1940 4 × 400 m

Rudolf Klupsch (born June 26, 1905 in Jena ; † May 18, 1992 there ) was a German athlete . He specialized in the 400-meter run .

biography

Rudolf Klupsch was initially active as a track cyclist in his youth and later tried his hand at hockey and ice hockey . At the age of 22, the Jenaer switched to athletics . At the German Championships in Berlin in 1936 , he started in the 400 meter race. After a photo finish for third place, he was narrowly defeated by Friedrich von Stülpnagel . Thus Friedrich von Stülpnagel qualified for a starting place in the 4 x 400 meter relay at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin . Klupsch only started in the race over 400 meters , where he was eliminated in the semi-finals and finished 14th in the overall standings. Almost 50 years later, the Frenchman Perdinaut noticed in the photos that Klupsch had actually been third in the race at the German championships.

In the period up to 1938 Klupsch was used in a total of eight international matches. In addition to his 400-meter starts, he occasionally took on 400-meter hurdles . At the German Championships in 1940 he was able to win the silver medal with the 4 x 400 meter relay.

Before and after the Second World War , Klupsch was employed by Carl Zeiss . In 1946 he was accused of having embezzled important equipment necessary for the measurement, together with other employees of the company, when packing production equipment that was to be brought to the Soviet Union. As a result, he was sentenced to 10 years in a camp by a military court in 1947. After he was released from special camp Sachsenhausen number 7 in 1953 , he worked as a trainer and functionary at BSG Motor Jena .

Klupsch's family members were also associated with athletics. His son Dietrich and daughter-in-law Rita started for SC Motor Jena until they left the GDR. His grandchildren Volker and Martina also later became 400-meter sprinters.

Web links

• Rudolf Klupsch in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ From the history of athletics in Jena - 2. Accessed on May 7, 2020 .