Werner Ditzinger

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Werner Ditzinger (born April 12, 1928 in Braunschweig ; † March 9, 2016 ) was a German swimmer and entrepreneur .

life and career

Ditzinger, who started for Eintracht Braunschweig , was one of the best German freestyle sprinters of the post-war period and won a total of eight German championship titles, three of them in the individual and five in the relay. In 1952 he qualified for the Olympic Games in Helsinki , but could not take part there because the National Olympic Committee for Germany could not take all athletes to Finland for financial reasons . One of his racing opponents was the Italian Carlo Pedersoli, who later became known as an actor under the name Bud Spencer .

Ditzinger was also used in the German national water polo team .

After his swimming career ended in 1958, Ditzinger founded Ditzinger GmbH , a wholesaler for industrial products in Braunschweig.

successes

  • German champion in the 100 m crawl: 1949, 1950
  • German champion in the 200 m crawl: 1949
  • German champion in the 4 × 100 m crawl relay: 1951, 1952
  • German champion in the 4 × 200 m crawl relay: 1951, 1952
  • German champion in the 4 × 100 m back relay: 1951

literature

  • Kurt Hoffmeister : Masters and Medals. Braunschweig's Olympic champion, world, European and German champion 1946–1986. Braunschweig City Library, Braunschweig 1986, DNB 921485514 .
  • Wolfgang Philipps: Werner Ditzinger (April 12, 1928 - March 9, 2016) . In: Yearbook of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History , Vol. 20/21 (2017/2018), p. 211 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Fastest crawl sprinter of the 1950s on braunschweiger-zeitung.de, accessed on August 9, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b 1952 contemporary witnesses: For the first German titles there was a sausage package from the butcher's guild  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at ditzinger.de, accessed on August 26, 2013 (PDF; 439 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / ditzinger.de  
  3. ↑ Kurt Hoffmeister: Time travel through Braunschweig's sports history: 180 years of gymnastics and sports in Braunschweig. Books on Demand, Norderstedt / Braunschweig 2010, ISBN 978-3-8391-0712-6 , p. 78.
  4. ↑ History ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on ditzinger.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ditzinger.de
personal data
SURNAME Ditzinger, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German swimmer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 2016