Germany competed at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway after not having been invited to the 1948 Winter Olympics because of their role in World War II, and because the NOC restored in 1947 as Deutscher Olympischer Ausschuß did not represent a recognized state yet. The Federal Republic of Germany was founded in 1949, the NOC for Germany was renamed and in 1951 recognized by the IOC while recognition of a separate National Olympic Committee of the German Democratic Republic was declined. East Germans were told to cooperate and form a united German team, which they declined in 1952, but accepted for 1956 and later.
Germany entered all events except the 1500 metres skating event, which was skipped by Germany's only speed skating entrant in favour of the other three events.
The IOC website currently uses both the codes GER or FRG for German medal winners, suggesting they represented two different teams: 2/14/1952 Oslo 1952 Pairs Mixed – Gold FALK, Paul / FALK, Ria – Figure skating pairs mixed Germany 2/14/1952 Oslo 1952 four-man Men – Gold FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY 01 - Bobsleigh four-man men Federal Republic of Germany (1950–1990, "GER" since)Official source: Olympic Records, World Records, Olympic Medalists
Medalists MedalNameSportEvent Bobsleigh Two-man Bobsleigh Four-man Figure skating Pairs Alpine skiing Women's downhill Alpine skiing Women's slalom Alpine skiing Women's giant slalom Alpine skiing Women's slalom
Alpine skiing
Men
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankPepi SchwaigerDownhill2:55.538Beni Obermüller2:42.917Willi Klein2:42.816Pepi ErbenGiant Slalom2:55.047Willi Klein2:46.232Beni Obermüller2:41.428Pepi Schwaiger2:35.417Pepi SchwaigerSlalom1:13.753did not advanceHeini Bierling1:09.944did not advanceWilli Klein1:04.220 Q1:04.7172:08.916Beni Obermüller1:04.119 Q1:03.4122:07.513
Women
AthleteEventRace 1Race 2TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankLia LeismüllerDownhill2:37.635Hannelore Glaser-Franke1:53.010Evi Lanig1:52.99Mirl Buchner1:48.0Evi LanigGiant Slalom2:15.614Marianne Seltsam2:14.110Ossi Reichert2:13.28Mirl Buchner2:10.0Hannelore Glaser-FrankeSlalom1:20.7331:10.1182:30.831Marianne Seltsam1:15.5291:50.3373:05.835Mirl Buchner1:07.681:05.732:13.3Ossi Reichert1:06.011:05.422:11.4
Bobsleigh
SledAthletesEventRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankGER-1Andreas OstlerLorenz NieberlTwo-man1:20.7611:21.6411:21.0211:21.1215:24.54GER-2Theo KittFriedrich KuhnTwo-man1:24.43121:25.22131:24.52131:24.0885:38.2511
SledAthletesEventRun 1Run 2Run 3Run 4TotalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankGER-1Andreas OstlerFriedrich KuhnLorenz NieberlFranz KemserFour-man1:16.8611:17.5711:16.5511:16.8615:07.84
Cross-country skiing
Men EventAthleteRaceTimeRank18 kmHubert EggerDNF–Helmut BöckDNF–Albert Mohr1'16:3265Rudi Kopp1'15:5364Alois Harrer1'14:2359Heinz Hauser1'13:305450 kmKarl SchüßlerDNF–Juku Pent4'30:5626
Men's 4 × 10 km relay AthletesRaceTimeRankHubert EggerAlbert MohrHeinz HauserRudi Kopp2'36:377
Women EventAthleteRaceTimeRank10 kmHanni Gehring50:3913
Figure skating
Men AthleteCFFSPointsPlacesRank Freimut Stein88155.956728
Women AthleteCFFSPointsPlacesRank Helga Dudzinski128142.76710312 Erika Kraft910143.7678910 Gundi Busch106146.289758
Pairs AthletesPointsPlacesRank Ingeborg MinorHermann Braun9.08973.58 Ria BaranPaul Falk11.40011.5
Ice hockey
The tournament was run in a round-robin format with nine teams participating. Team PldWLTGFGAPts 8701711415 8611432113 9720532214 9630502312 844040408 825121565 826021604 8th816121533 808015460
Canada 15-1 Germany USA 8-2 Germany Czechoslovakia 6-1 Germany Sweden 7-3 Germany Poland 4-4 Germany Norway 2-6 Germany Finland 5-1 Germany Switzerland 6-3 Germany
Contestants Karl Bierschel Markus Egen Karl Enzler Georg Guggemos Alfred Hoffmann Engelbert Holderied Walter Kremershof Ludwig Kuhn Dieter Niess Hans Georg Pescher Fritz Poitsch Herbert Schibukat Xaver Unsinn Heinz Wackers Karl Wild
Nordic combined
Events: 18 km cross-country skiing normal hill ski jumping
The cross-country skiing part of this event was combined with the main medal event, meaning that athletes competing here were skiing for two disciplines at the same time. Details can be found above in this article, in the cross-country skiing section.
The ski jumping (normal hill) event was held separate from the main medal event of ski jumping, results can be found in the table below (athletes were allowed to perform three jumps, the best two jumps were counted and are shown here).
AthleteEventCross-countrySki JumpingTotalPointsRankDistance 1Distance 2PointsRankPointsRankHelmut BöckIndividualDNF–54.558.5179.022DNF–Heinz Hauser199.6361560.062.0193.514393.13615
Ski jumping
AthleteEventJump 1Jump 2TotalDistancePointsRankDistancePointsRankPointsRankFranz DenggNormal hill60.096.52456.591.035187.531Sepp Kleisl66.5108.0862.5100.017208.010Sepp Weiler67.0108.0863.0105.08213.08Toni Brutscher66.5111.0362.5105.57216.54
Speed skating
Men EventAthleteRaceTimeRank500 mTheo Meding46.8335000 mTheo Meding8:57.42710,000 mTheo Meding18:24.422
References
Olympic Winter Games 1952, full results by sports-reference.com