Hermann Weingärtner
Hermann Otto Ludwig Weingartner ( born August 27, 1864 in Frankfurt ( Oder), † December 22, 1919 ) was a German gymnast and Olympic champion.
He was the son of gymnastics and swimming instructor and bathhouse owner Gustav husbandman and his wife Wilhelmine. He was by Albert and Robert the third oldest of five sons (younger brothers Max and Adolf). The family lived in the Fischer Strasse 2, 94/95 and 100
Weingartner was in Frankfurt ( Oder) trained merchant and gymnastics at the Frankfurter Turnverein 1860. He went professional reasons to Berlin and joined in 1885 the German Gymnastics (DT ). He reached his first major national success at the 8th German Gymnastics Festival 1894 in Breslau ( Wrocław), a year later he won a gold plaque at the Federal Gymnastics Festival in Rome.
I. The 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens husbandmen won the individual competition on the high bar and the team competitions on the horizontal bar and parallel bars. Second places he won the rings and the pommel horse. On parallel bars, he was also third in the individual competition. He was with three gold medals, together with Alfred Flatow and Paul Masson, the most successful winner behind Carl Schuhmann and, with a total of six medals, the most successful participants in the games.
In Germany he was locked on his part in the Olympics back because the German Gymnastics Association boycotted the Olympics. He went back to Frankfurt ( Oder), where he directed until his death in 1919, the bathhouse of his father on the island Ziegenwerder.
Hermann Weingartner married 1900, the baker's daughter Elisabeth Kummert, with whom he had three children: Ella, Eric and Klara.
Hermann Weingartner died on 22 December 1919 in the business it Lord bathhouse while trying to save the life of a drowning man.
In his honor, called the main road on the island Ziegenwerder in Frankfurt ( Oder) since 1996 Hermann Weingartner pathway.
In 2007, Marcus Thaetner, EM - third in the rings, the first recipient of the Hermann Weingartner Prize of the city of Frankfurt (Oder) and the related bonus of 1896 €. 2009 got him Romy Tarangul ( bronze medalist of the World Championships in the under-52 kg) from Judo Club 90 Frankfurt ( Oder). Other winners include, inter alia, cycling champions Reinhard Scheer in 2011 and Skeetschütze Ralf Buchheim 2013.