Werner Pfitzenmeier

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Werner Pfitzenmeier (* 1920 or 1921; † 1944 ) was a German gymnast from Oftersheim . Pfitzenmeier did gymnastics for the Mannheim gymnastics club in 1846 .

life and career

Pfitzenmeier was the son of Hermann Pfitzenmeier. His grandfather was Jakob Pfitzenmeier, master butcher and landlord of the “Zum Adler” inn in Oftersheim , where the village youth met for gymnastics in a separate room with gymnastic and sports equipment, including the successful gymnast Fritz Kurz .

Werner Pfitzenmeier belonged to the top class of German gymnasts in the 1940s and was friends with the later Olympic champion Helmut Bantz as his strongest rival. Pfitzenmeier was accepted into the core gymnastics team at the age of 18 in August 1939 and regularly took part in training courses for the German team.

At the Baden Gaume Championship in 1939 in Wiesloch , he was the best individual gymnast.

In 1940 he was already included in the North Baden gau team and a little later in the Baden gau team, which gymnastics on March 22, 1940 in the German team championship in Krefeld against Württemberg and Niederrhein.

He was German junior champion in both 1939 and 1942. In 1941 he could not take part in the German youth championships in Kassel, although he had been given good chances of a top placement.

In 1942 he was sixth at the German Fighting Games in Nuremberg . In 1942 he was integrated into the German team.

In the elimination gymnastics in Dresden in mid-November 1942 for the three-country battle between Germany, Italy and Hungary, Pfitzenmeier was second behind Kurt Krötzsch .

In 1944 he found his death as a paratrooper when the machine crashed near Paris on the way to the front just a few days before the German gymnastics championships in May 1944 , in which he too should have participated. His body was buried in the Lyon military cemetery. Later his father had the body transported back home.

His great-nephew of the same name, born in 1959, founded the Schwetzingen fitness company Pfitzenmeier in 1978 .

Literature (selection)

  • Dr. Josef Göhler : Expert, fighter, comrade! , in: Sport der Jugend - magazine of the youth leader of the German Reich for the physical education of our youth, No. 4/7. Jahr, Berlin July – August 1944, p. 16. (Obituary)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Andreas Lin: The gymnasium in the "Adler" was the cradle. Schwetzinger Zeitung, April 27, 2013.
  2. ^ Badische Presse of April 24, 1939. Online See also the Freiburger Zeitung of April 24, 1939 [1]
  3. ^ Badische Presse of February 10, 1940. Online
  4. ^ Badische Presse of March 18, 1940. Online
  5. ^ Badische Presse of September 7, 1942. Online
  6. ^ Bulletin of the community of Oftersheim (No. 42) October 15, 2004.
  7. ^ Badische Presse of November 16, 1942. Online
personal data
SURNAME Pfitzenmeier, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH 1920 or 1921
DATE OF DEATH 1944