Innozenz Stangl

Innocent Stangl ( born March 11, 1911 in Jesenwang, † March 23, 1991 Jesenwang ) was a German gymnast.

Stangl was the eleventh child of a poor family Gütler. After he already was able to achieve some success in his youth in gymnastics festivals, he participated in several professions that supported his career Turner. In 1936, Stangl moved to TSV 1860 Munich, before he was in Berlin at the start of the Olympic Games. There he participated in seven individual decisions in gymnastics, but always missed a medal. Only in the team he could win together with seven other crew members of the gold medal in front of the Swiss and Finnish team. Stangl was a member of the NSDAP and the SA.

In the following years, Stangl physical education teacher in Danzig and in Munich, before he served as a radio operator during the war and in 1945 was taken prisoner. After his escape from Czechoslovakia, he worked as a representative and laborers in the textile industry, then he still managed a German championship in 1947 in the pentathlon. The following years were spent Stangl again as a teacher at several schools, he was retired prematurely in 1969 because of a broken neck vertebra. His last years lived Stangl in a nursing home in his hometown Jesenwang.

The invented by Stangl somersault from the giant wheel was named after him Stangl somersault, just wearing a street in Jesenwang his name. In Innocent - Stangl - way today is the seat of his first club, the TSV Jesenwang.