Walter Feist

Walter Feist
nation	Germany German Democratic Republic
birthday	November 19, 1907
place of birth	Bad Flinsberg, Germany
date of death	after 1977
Career
discipline	Single seat double seat mixed
society	Flinsberg Chemie Piesteritz SV Stahl Ilsenburg
Medal table
EM medals 5 × 2 × 0 × DR medals 8 × ? × ? × GDR medals 6 × ? × ? ×
European Luge Championships silver 1928 Schreiberhau Double gold 1929 Semmering Double gold 1934 Ilmenau Double gold 1935 Krynica Double silver 1937 Oslo Double gold 1938 Salzburg Double gold 1939 Reichenberg Double German championship gold 1927 Schierke Double gold 1929 Oybin singles gold 1929 Oybin Double gold 1932 Bad Toelz singles gold 1933 Schreiberhau Double gold 1937 Oybin Double gold 1955 Oberhof singles gold 1955 Oberhof Double GDR championship gold 1951 singles gold 1953 singles gold 1953 Mixed gold 1954 Oberhof singles silver 1954 Oberhof Double silver 1954 Oberhof Mixed silver 1955 Oberhof singles gold 1958 singles gold 1958 Double
last change: December 18, 2009

Walter Feist (born November 19, 1907 ; † after 1977 ) is a former German luge athlete . He is one of the most successful representatives of his sport in the early days of the organized exercise of the sport, whose career stretched from the late 1920s to the late 1950s.

Feist at the GDR championships in 1954

Mixed competition at the GDR championships in 1954 - Feist with Friedel Kinzel-Tietze

Walter Feist from Flinsberg won the German championship for the first time in 1927 in Schierke with his partner and older brother Richard Feist in a two-seater. The following year, the doubles in Schreiberhau with silver behind Herbert Elger and Wilhelm Adolf won their first medal at the European Championships . In 1929 he won his first continental title in a two-seater with Richard Feist in Semmering . The doubles in Oybin also won the title nationally, and he also won it in the individual competition. Feist won the single title again in 1932 in Bad Tölz , and in 1933 in Schreiberhau in doubles with Richard Feist. In Ilmenau he and his new partner and nephew Walter Kluge won the title at the two-seater competitions of the European Championships in 1934 and in Krynica in 1935 . In 1937 the duo had to admit defeat to their compatriots Martin Tietze and Kurt Weidner in Oslo and won silver, while nationally in Oybin gold. In 1938 in Salzburg and in 1939 in Liberec Feist / Kluge won the gold medals again. The further career was interrupted by the Second World War.

After the war, Feist continued in the GDR from the 1950s and became the first GDR individual champion for Chemie Piesteritz in 1951. He then moved to BSG Stahl Ilsenburg and won other titles in 1953, 1954 and 1958. In the two-seater he won the title in 1958 with Udo Kasten , in the mixed competition in 1953 with his wife Thea Feist . He was also runner-up in 1954 in the doubles and with Friedel Kinzel-Tietze in mixed, 1955 in singles. In 1955 all-German championships were held again, in which Feist won the title in singles and with Hermann Ohlendorf in doubles.

Web links

Commons : Walter Feist  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Results of the GDR championships