Hans-Georg Aschenbach

Hans -Georg Aschenbach ( born October 25, 1951 in Brotterode ) is a former German ski jumper. He was Olympic champion, world champion and won the Four Hills Tournament.

Sporting successes

1969 Aschenbach was European Junior Champion, and two years later he won as a 20 - year-old in Johanngeorgenstadt the first DDR titles. In 1972 he participated in the Olympic Winter Games in Sapporo in part and landed on the normal hill at number 31 1973/1974 he won after victories in Oberstdorf and Innsbruck overall victory in the Four Hills Tournament, after he had previously become 1973 ski flying world champion. In 1974 he was elected champion of the normal and large hill and Sportsman of the Year of the GDR in Falun, Sweden. The following year he underwent surgery on the meniscus. At the Olympic Games 1976 in Innsbruck, he won gold in the normal hill, on the large hill, he was eighth. He then ended his sports career.

Training and involvement in sport - system of the GDR

After his playing career he has qualified as a PE teacher. He then studied at the Military Medical Section of the Ernst- Moritz- Arndt- University of Greifswald. As a military doctor, he returned in 1988 to Thuringia back. When ASK forward Oberhof he was medical supervisor of the ski jumpers and doctor of the East German national team. He held the rank of lieutenant colonel of the National People's Army.

Hans -Georg Aschenbach also made political career: He was a delegate of the SED Party Congress and a member of the Peace Council of the German Democratic Republic. According to own statements this happened specifically to get back to get permission to travel to the West by the state apparatus after he had noticed the Stasi because of " petty-bourgeois tendencies " and " weaknesses of character ."

Escape to West Germany

On August 27, 1988 Aschenbach took advantage of the participation of the national team on Matt jumping in Hinterzarten, in order to settle in the West. He shook in front of the team hotel from his marker from the State Security and drove with a friend who was six months earlier escaped from the GDR and in his car waiting for him, it.

His family he had to leave in the GDR. After his escape, he reported in Bild am Sonntag of the doping practices in the GDR - performance sports: children and young people would doped without that they and their parents knew. He himself took a Oral- Turinabol.

After escaping Hans -Georg Aschenbach took a job as an orthopedic surgeon at Moss Forest Hospital in Freiburg im Breisgau with Armin Klümper to. A few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, his family received through the mediation of the UN permission to also move to Freiburg. Since 1993, he practiced as a physician in private practice in Freiburg- Munzingen.

In 2012 he published under the title of your hero. Your traitor. My life for competitive sports his memoirs.

Publications

  • Hendrik Rümenap: Your hero. Your traitor. My life for competitive sports. Means German publisher, Hall 2012, ISBN 978-3-89812-892-6 Hans Georg Aschenbach: Inner turmoil, review by Thomas Purschke in the Berliner Zeitung, March 14, 2012
  • Reckoning with the GDR sports: Olympic champion Aschenbach: From hero to traitor, review of Friedhard Teuffel in the Tagesspiegel 21 March, 2012
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