Elfriede Kaun – Wikipedia
Elfriede rahn-kaun (Born October 5, 1914 in Büttel (Elbe), † March 5, 2008 in Kiel) was a German athlete. At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, she won the bronze medal in the high jump.
Kaun, the youngest of four children, came to Kiel with her family in 1921 from Büttel in Lower Elbish, where the father had found a work as a crane operator at the formerly imperial shipyard. Elfriede Kaun attended elementary school from 1921, then the middle school. In 1930 she began a two -year training as a nanny, which she successfully completed in 1932 and soon found a job in a kindergarten in Kiel.
In 1933 she kicked that Kiel Gymnastics Association At where she first tried to run in the terrain and in the long jump. Since she lacked speed, she finally came to the high jump. Already in 1934 she became a master in this discipline in the sports gau Nordmark [2] , Second at the IV German fighting games in Nuremberg in July 1934, fifth at the women’s world games in London in August 1934 and winner in the athletics battle against Japan with 1.56 m. On July 22, 1935, Kaun in Wuppertal increased the German Record by one centimeter to 1.60 m. In the same year, she won at the German Championships and the Country Campaign against Poland. At the 1936 Olympic Games, like her competitors Ibolya Csák from Hungary and Dorothy Odam from Great Britain, she again skipped 1.60 m, but only reached the bronze medal in the jump -off. She gave an extensive interview with her relationship with the high jumper Gretel Bergmann, who was part of the German Olympic Cubare, but was not allowed to start at the games. [3]
Elfriede Kaun also participated in Leni Riefenstahl’s first Olympic film. Due to her sporting successes, her was offered a position in the sports office of the city of Kiel in 1936 and enabled further training as a kindergarten teacher. After the outbreak of the Second World War, she had to gradually give up her sporting ambitions. Now she tried to work as an educator in Berlin, where she also worked as a kindergarten teacher from 1943. In the same year she married the graphic artist Heinz Rahn, whom she had met in Kiel. The son Kai Rahn (1946–1992) emerged from the connection, and the marriage was divorced in 1964.
As part of the evacuation of Berlin, Elfriede Rahn came to Timmendorfer Strand against the end of the war with a group of children, where she headed a kindergarten in the Niendorf district until 1948. In 1952, with the help of Georg von Opels, Elfriede Rahn received an employment with the German Olympic Society . Between 1952 and 1954 she lived with her son in Stuttgart, but then returned to Kiel. Between 1964 and 1972, Elfriede Rahn-Kaun, as she had called herself since divorce, worked in a Saunabad in Timmendorfer. When this position was canceled, she lived as Partner At Edda-Charlotte von Anhalt (1905–1986), the widow of the last Duke of Anhalt, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
According to Elfriede Kaun, an honorary award from the committee is named women in the State Sports Association Schleswig-Holstein, which is awarded every two years and has been called “Elfriede-Kaun Prize for Equal Opportunities” since 2015. The last German medalist of the 1936 Olympic Games died with her.
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- 1934: German runner -up
- 1935: German champion
- 1936: German champion
- 1937: German champion
- 1939: German runner -up
- ↑ Made in: Max Schirner To the sports record . 2nd ed., Bruckmann, Munich 1937, Fig. 3.
- ↑ Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg, Mecklenburg (without Lower Saxony and Bremen)
- ↑ Winfried Joch: The Olympic Games in Berlin in the eyes of a contemporary witness. In: Arnd Krüger, Swantje Scharenberg (ed.): Times for heroes – times for celebrities in sport. Lit, Münster 2014, S. 113–122.
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