Meinhard Nehmer

Meinhard taker ( born January 13, 1941 in Boblin, County Ueckermuende, Pomerania ) is a former German track and field athlete and Bobsportler ( bob pilot ), who achieved his successes in the East German team. After his athletic career, he worked successfully as Bobtrainer for the U.S., Italy and Germany since 1991.

He lives with his wife Renate, with whom he has 3 children ( 2 daughters, 1 son ), in the district of the municipality Varnkevitz Putgarten in the far north of the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern.

Education and work

Meinhard taker is the son of a farmer, who after the expulsion with his family as Neubauer in Varnkevitz (today district Vorpommern - Rügen) found a new existence after 1945 from hometown fell to Poland in Szczecin. After finishing school, 8th grade takers worked from 1955 in his father's business as a farmer. From 1961 to 1963 he worked in the meteorological station at Cape Arkona and was trained as a weather service technician.

During his athletic career he acquired in parallel from 1965 to 1967 the completion of the 10th grade. From 1976 to 1978 and 1980 to 1982 he studied at the School of Engineering of Agricultural Engineering in Nordhausen and graduated with the title engineer for agricultural machinery from. After the end of competitive sports was Meinhard takers 1982 by ASK forward Oberhof added on Rügen with the People's Navy to Dranske and was able to return to his parents' house. As an officer for training and repair at the 6th Flotilla, he worked in his engineering career and rose to the Commander.

1985 ordered him the chief of the Army Sports Club forward to Oberhof back, and began taker second Bobkarriere. The international competition was getting tougher, as for example, had Opel for the team of the Federal Republic of Germany developed a new Bob. Since the victory was already much decided to design tables and in Bobwerkstätten in advance taker was in demand as a consultant and tester for the chassis, slide and skid. As a result, until the turn taker was again present at all the major races.

His hope to be able to continue until the 50th birthday, was not met. A few days after the takeover in the armed forces, three months before the transitional pension, he was released. In the unemployment he tried his living by renting rooms in his house to contest in Varnkevitz. He received an offer to be in the U.S. national team coach Bob - and so to begin his third Bobkarriere until the end of 1991. In the contract period to 1993, he brought the U.S. four-man bob pilot with Brian Shimer for the first time on a medal at the World Championship 1993 ( Bronze) and for winning the World Cup. From 1993 to 2000 Meinhard taker was repeatedly renewed short-term contracts coach of the Italian national team Bob. Again, he was involved with bob pilot Günther Huber at 8 international medals.

From 2000, Meinhard taker was responsible for the German national team as a discipline coach Bob gentlemen at the Bobsleigh and Luge Federation for Germany. After the 2006 Winter Olympics he finished his coaching career.

Sports career

Meinhard takers began to sport with the spear on the lawn in front of his parents' homestead in Varnkewitz. He was several district champion and also collected with discus and ball laurel. In 1963 he moved as a track and field athlete to forward ASK Potsdam and was as an athlete NVA member. His achievements culminated in 1971 in the Best Performance of 81.50 meters in the javelin and the bronze medal at the East German championships. In the same year he underwent surgery on the shoulder and had to do track and stop. Since then he has problems with his shoulder and always pain.

In 1971, by chance taker at ASK Potsdam forward to a test for the Bobsleigh. As a result, he moved in 1973 ASK forward Oberhof, during the family's move to Potsdam in 1974 was. The 1971 in Oberhof newly built luge ice rink was used to professionally develop the GDR bobsledding after decades back so that medals were achieved. Meinhard taker won his first Bobmedaille during the 1975 East German championship in the two-man bob. ( Man bobsleigh can in Oberhof because of the construction of the railway not be performed. )

At the opening of the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1976, he was standard bearer of the GDR team. A few days later he won a surprise to the competitors and audience, and in the two- man and four gold medal. In the following years he dominated his sport superior discipline and won 4 medals at two Olympic Games, three World Championships in 4 medals and two European Championships 3 medals. In his view, the most valuable coin was the gold medal at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. At that time taker won the four with a lead of almost a second - where it otherwise comes to hundredths - before the Swiss bobsled legend Erich Schärer. Although prompted by the GDR sports guide to keep going, finished taker in 1980 with 39 years of his active sports career.

His Boblaufbahn he played exclusively as a bob pilot, for which he had special skills. In his playing days he is unlike many competitors never overturned by Bob.

Social commitment

• Honorary President of the Bobsleigh and Luge Sports Association Brandenburg eV
• Non-partisan council deputy of the FDP in the Rügen since 1999

Sporting successes

As an athlete

• Bronze in the javelin (ASK forward Potsdam)

• Gold in the two- ( with Bernhard Germeshausen ) (ASK forward Oberhof )

• Gold in the two- ( with Bernhard Germeshausen )
• Gold in four-man ( with Jochen Babock, Bernhard Germeshausen and Bernhard Lehmann)

• Gold in four-man ( with Hans -Jürgen Gerhardt, Bernhard Germeshausen and Raimund Bethge )

• Silver in two-man ( with Raimund Bethge )
• Bronze in the four-man event ( with Raimund Bethge, Bernhard Germeshausen and Hans -Jürgen Gerhardt )

• Silver in the four-man event ( with Hans -Jürgen Gerhardt, Bernhard Germeshausen and Raimund Bethge )

• Silver in the four-man event ( with Detlef Richter, Bernhard Germeshausen and Hans -Jürgen Gerhardt )

• Bronze in the two- ( with Bogdan Musiol )
• Gold in four-man ( with Jochen Babock, Bernhard Germeshausen and Hans -Jürgen Gerhardt )

• Bronze in the two- ( with Bogdan Musiol )
• Gold in four-man ( with Bogdan Musiol, Bernhard Germeshausen and Hans -Jürgen Gerhardt )

As a coach

• Bronze in the four-man event for USA (Brian Shimer, Bryan Leturgez, Karlos Kirby and Randy Jones)

• Bronze in the two- Italy ( Günther Huber and Stefano Ticci )

• Silver in the two- Italy ( Günther Huber and Stefano Ticci )
• Gold in the four-man event for Italy ( Günther Huber, Antonio Tartaglia, Stefano Ticci and Mirko Ruggiero )

• Silver in the two- Italy ( Günther Huber and Antonio Tartaglia )

• Gold in the two- Italy ( Günther Huber and Antonio Tartaglia )

• Gold in the two- Italy ( Günther Huber and Antonio Tartaglia )

• Bronze in the two- Italy ( Günther Huber and Antonio Tartaglia )

• Gold in the two- Italy ( Günther Huber, Enrico Costa and Ubaldo Ranzi - Costa was injured in the first run)

• Silver in the two- Italy ( Günther Huber and Ubaldo Ranzi )

Awards

• Patriotic Order of Merit ( silver and gold)
• 3 × Honored Master of Sports
• Battle Order of the NVA