Sylvester Wackerle had his first success by winning the German championship in the two-man bobsleigh in 1949 as a brakeman for Hans Winkler ; the two became Bavarian champions in 1950. The duo celebrated their first international success as Germany II in sixth place at the 1951 Bobsleigh World Cup when Germany I won with Anderl Ostler . In the four-man bobsleigh, Wackerle competed in various line-ups, in 1950 he drove to the German championship in Ostler's bobsleigh with Nieberl and his two-man bobsleigh partner Winkler. In the line-up of Hans Rösch , Michael Pössinger , Dix Terne , and Wackerle, he won his first world championship medal at the 1953 Bobsleigh World Championship in third place, a year later the same team made it to second place. The last major event of his career was the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo . In the line-up of Rösch, Pössinger, Nieberl, Wackerle, the team came in sixth. Wackerle won one last title at the German championships in 1956 on the no longer existing bobsleigh run between the Großer Feldberg and Oberreifenberg , and with the team Hans Rösch, Alfred Hammer and J. Hummerl he was once again German four-man bob champion.
family
Sylvester Wackerle's father-in-law was Johann Mordstein , who in April 1945 freed two prisoners from a transport to the Dachau concentration camp and hid them until the end of the war. Two sons of Wackerle took part in the 1964 Winter Olympics, Sylvester Jr. was an ice hockey player , his brother Anton , a year younger than his father, was a bobsledder. After their sports careers ended, the Wackerle family ran the traditional Bräustüberl inn in Garmisch for two generations until 2011 .
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