Werner Zahn (bobsledder)

Werner Zahn
Full name	Werner Zahn
nation	Germany
birthday	November 15, 1890
place of birth	Wiesloch
date of death	1st January 1971
Place of death	Wolfenbüttel
Career
discipline	Two-man bobsleigh, four-man bobsleigh
position	pilot
Medal table
World championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×

Werner Zahn (born November 15, 1890 in Wiesloch ; † January 1, 1971 in Wolfenbüttel ) was a German bobsleigh driver, racing driver, entrepreneur and pilot.

Werner Zahn completed his first flight in 1913, and later passed his field pilot examination. During the First World War he was part of Manfred von Richthofen's squadron . In the 1920s he drove motorcycle and car races. After the birth of his son Christian in 1926, Zahn was able to achieve several successes in bobsleigh: He became German champion in two-man and four-man bobsleigh in 1927 and in four-man bobsleigh in 1930. His greatest international success was winning the 1931 World Bobsleigh Championship in the four-man bobsleigh. At that time, Zahn had already taken over the management of the Schuberth works from Fritz Schuberth. At the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake PlacidThe tooth-controlled bob flew out of a curve in the first training session. Zahn himself broke his forearm , his pusher Hans Mehlhorn suffered a fracture in his left hand , pusher Heinrich Rossner suffered a sprained spine. Only the third pusher, Helmut Hopmann, was still operational after the accident. Zahn was banned from starting, so that after 1928 he missed participation in the Olympic Games for the second time. Immediately before the start of the 1928 Winter Olympics , Zahn had already had a serious accident, his brakeman Werner Schröder was fatally injured. Zahn was unable to achieve further international successes. In the two-man bobsleigh, he was again German champion in 1933 , and was only nominated as a substitute for the 1936 Winter Olympics . At the Bobsleigh World Championship in 1938 , Zahn reached sixth place in the two-man bobsleigh, and in the same year he was once again German runner-up in the two-man bobsleigh.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} Kurt Hoffmeister : Time travel through the Braunschweig sports history . 180 years of gymnastics and sport in Braunschweig. Books on Demand, 2010, pp. 60 ( online [accessed March 21, 2013]).
2. ↑ Eckhard Schimpf : The “midnight scream” became quieter . In: Braunschweiger Zeitung . December 22, 2006 ( online [accessed March 21, 2013]).
3. ↑ The carpentry shop became a world-renowned helmet manufacturer . In 1922 the Schuberth group of companies was founded on the grounds of the National-Jürgens-Brewery. In: Braunschweiger Zeitung . July 23, 2003 ( online [accessed March 21, 2013]).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Eckhard Schimpf : “Mister Roosevelt, I'll start! Even with an arm in a cast ” . In: Braunschweiger Zeitung . February 25, 2010 ( online [accessed March 21, 2013]).
5. ^ The fatal accidents in bobsleigh . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . March 12, 2004 ( online [accessed March 21, 2013]).