Wolfgang Kummer started at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the four-man bobsleigh together with Walter Trott , Fritz Vonhof and Rudolf Werlich . This line-up had secured the German championship the year before. After a good start, the German sled was on course for the best time, but it overturned in a 180-degree hairpin bend. All athletes flew out of the bobsleigh and it drove through the goal empty. A year later he was again German champion in the four-man bobsleigh.
After the Second World War he left his wife with six children and moved to the GDR , where he did criminal business and accepted money without being able to deliver goods. Because of a related arrest warrant, he fled to West Germany and settled in Cologne.
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