Andreas Ostler

Andreas " Anderl " Ostler ( born January 21, 1921 in Grainau, † November 24, 1988 ) was a German bobsledder who has been with Lorenz Nieberl first Olympic champion of the Federal Republic and also won the four-man bobsleigh gold.

His first World Cup appearance in 1950 in Cortina had burst because his Bob did not arrive on time, in 1951 at the Bob World Championships in L' Alpe d' Huez (France) Ostler had become double world champion.

At the Olympic Winter Games 1952 in Oslo Oberbayer won with his brakeman Lorenz Nieberl in a 17 -year-old bobsled gold medal in the two-man bob. This victory was the first Olympic gold of the Federal Republic of Germany (1948 Germany was still locked ), but his second gold in four-man bobsleigh gained in these games only the figure skating pair Ria and Paul Falk gold. When his four-man in training remained due to outdated technology behind the pre-war equipped with better material competition, he persuaded his local rivals Friedrich Kuhn II of Germany to resolve both teams and the heaviest men together in a bob. That worked, Ostler, Nieberl, and Franz Kuhn and Covers (all SC Riessersee ) won gold in four-man bobsleigh. The crew of the German four-man bob in the Olympics weighed 472 kg, which prompted the International Federation to introduce a weight limit to 420 kg (without slide).

When Bobweltmeisterschaft 1953 on his home track in Garmisch -Partenkirchen, he was runner-up in two's and four-man bobsleigh at the 1954 World Cup of suffering from alcohol problems Ostler appeared at the World Cup not to the qualifying events.

Despite these problems, he was at the opening ceremony of the 1956 Olympic Games in Cortina d' Ampezzo flag bearers of the all-German team; but won nothing.

After his athletic career, the passionate amateur folk musicians Ostler was restaurateur.

The Cinema Comedy Guys by Marcus H. Rose Müller from 2006 takes up the story of the Olympic bobsled team from 1952.