# United Team of Germany at the 1956 Winter Olympics

Germany was represented at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy by a United Team of Germany of athletes from the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, West Germany) and, for the first time, also from the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) which had not joined in 1952.
The results were rather disappointing as only 2 medals were scored against the emerging competition. Rosa "Ossi" Reichert won gold at the women's giant slalom, and Harry Glaß took bronze in the K90 individual jump.

## Medalists

| Medal | Name | Nationality | Sport | Event | Date |
| Gold | Ossi Reichert | West Germany | Alpine skiing | Women's giant slalom | January 27 |
| Bronze | Harry Glaß | East Germany | Ski jumping | Men's normal hill | February 5 |

## Alpine skiing
### Men

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Pepi Schwaiger | Downhill | | | | | 3:22.2 | 20 |
| Karl Zillibiller | Downhill | | | | | 3:21.6 | 19 |
| Sepp Behr | Downhill | | | | | 3:07.7 | 12 |
| Hans Peter Lanig | Downhill | | | | | 2:59.8 | 5 |
| Beni Obermüller | Giant Slalom | | | | | 3:42.9 | 48 |
| Pepi Schwaiger | Giant Slalom | | | | | 3:23.5 | 26 |
| Sepp Behr | Giant Slalom | | | | | 3:11.4 | 8 |
| Hans Peter Lanig | Giant Slalom | | | | | 3:08.6 | 7 |
| Rochus Wagner | Slalom | 1:48.7 | 32 | 2:28.7 (+0:05) | 42 | 4:17.4 | 34 |
| Karl Zillibiller | Slalom | 1:36.6 | 26 | 2:23.6 | 34 | 4:00.2 | 25 |
| Sepp Behr | Slalom | 1:33.3 | 15 | DSQ | – | DSQ | – |
| Beni Obermüller | Slalom | 1:32.3 | 10 | 1:55.2 | 10 | 3:27.5 | 9 |

### Women

| Athlete | Event | Race 1 | Race 1 | Race 2 | Race 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| Mirl Buchner | Downhill | | | | | DNF | – |
| Sonja Sperl | Downhill | | | | | 1:57.8 | 32 |
| Hannelore Glaser-Franke | Downhill | | | | | 1:54.7 | 29 |
| Ossi Reichert | Downhill | | | | | 1:52.3 | 20 |
| Mirl Buchner | Giant Slalom | | | | | 2:05.0 | 27 |
| Hannelore Glaser-Franke | Giant Slalom | | | | | 2:02.7 | 19 |
| Marianne Seltsam | Giant Slalom | | | | | 2:01.4 | 12 |
| Ossi Reichert | Giant Slalom | | | | | 1:56.5 | |
| Marianne Seltsam | Slalom | DSQ | – | – | – | DSQ | – |
| Ossi Reichert | Slalom | 1:07.8 | 24 | DSQ | – | DSQ | – |
| Hannelore Glaser-Franke | Slalom | 1:01.8 | 19 | 1:02.9 | 17 | 2:04.7 | 14 |
| Mirl Buchner | Slalom | 1:01.7 | 18 | 1:16.8 | 28 | 2:18.5 | 21 |

## Bobsleigh

| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| GER-1 | Hans Rösch Lorenz Nieberl | Two-man | 1:26.92 | 14 | 1:24.08 | 6 | 1:25.21 | 9 | 1:25.13 | 6 | 5:41.34 | 9 |
| GER-2 | Andreas Ostler Hans Hohenester | Two-man | 1:24.63 | 4 | 1:24.89 | 10 | 1:25.07 | 8 | 1:25.54 | 8 | 5:40.13 | 8 |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Run 1 | Run 1 | Run 2 | Run 2 | Run 3 | Run 3 | Run 4 | Run 4 | Total | Total |
| Sled | Athletes | Event | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank |
| GER-1 | Hans Rösch Michael Pössinger Lorenz Nieberl Sylvester Wackerle | Four-man | 1:18.61 | 6 | 1:19.04 | 8 | 1:19.43 | 7 | 1:20.94 | 13 | 5:18.02 | 6 |
| GER-2 | Franz Schelle Jakob Nirschl Hans Henn Edmund Koller | Four-man | 1:19.03 | 9 | 1:18.84 | 7 | 1:19.31 | 6 | 1:21.32 | 15 | 5:18.50 | 8 |

## Cross-country skiing
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 15 km | Helmut Hagg | 56:50 | 46 |
| 15 km | Rudi Kopp | 54:31 | 31 |
| 15 km | Siegfried Weiß | 54:29 | 29 |
| 15 km | Kuno Werner | 54:18 | 27 |
| 30 km | Werner Moring | 2'00:55 | 40 |
| 30 km | Erich Lindenlaub | 1'58:30 | 33 |
| 30 km | Hermann Möchel | 1'56:34 | 30 |
| 50 km | Werner Moring | 3'20:32 | 20 |

### Men's 4 × 10 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Kuno Werner Siegfried Weiß Rudi Kopp Hermann Möchel | 2'26:37 | 10 |

### Women

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 10 km | Rita Czech-Blasl | 43:51 | 29 |
| 10 km | Elfriede Spiegelhauer-Uhlig | 43:15 | 26 |
| 10 km | Else Amann | 42:22 | 20 |
| 10 km | Sonnhilde Hausschild-Kallus | 42:22 | 20 |

### Women's 3 x 5 km relay

| Athletes | Race | Race |
| Athletes | Time | Rank |
| Elfriede Spiegelhauer-Uhlig Else Amann Sonnhilde Hausschild-Kallus | 1'15:33 | 7 |

## Figure skating
### Men

| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Tilo Gutzeit | 10 | 11 | 141.08 | 90 | 10 |

### Women

| Athlete | CF | FS | Points | Places | Rank |
| Rosel Pettinger | 11 | 6 | 152.04 | 101 | 10 |

### Pairs

| Athletes | Points | Places | Rank |
| Marika Kilius Franz Ningel | 10.98 | 35.5 | 4 |

## Ice hockey
### Group A

Top two teams advanced to Medal Round.
| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| 1 | Canada | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | Germany | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 3 |
| 3 | Italy | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 |
| 4 | Austria | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 32 | 1 |
* Canada 4-0 Germany
* Italy 2-2 Germany
* Germany 7-0 Austria

### Games for 1st-6th places

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L | T | GF | GA | Pts |
| 1 | Soviet Union | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 5 | 10 |
| 2 | United States | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 12 | 8 |
| 3 | Canada | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 11 | 6 |
| 4 | Sweden | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 17 | 3 |
| 5 | Czechoslovakia | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 30 | 2 |
| 6 | Germany | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 35 | 1 |
* USA 7-2 Germany
* USSR 8-0 Germany
* Canada 10-0 Germany
* Czechoslovakia 9-3 Germany
* Germany 1-1 Sweden
* Contestants Ulli Jansen Alfred Hoffmann Toni Biersack Bruno Guttowski Martin Beck Paul Ambros Karl Bierschel Kurt Sepp Markus Egen Ernst Trautwein Rudolf Pittrich Hans Huber Arthur Endress Reiner Kossmann Hans Rampf Martin Zach Günther Jochems

## Nordic combined

Events:
* normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
* 15 km cross-country skiing
| Athlete | Event | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Ski Jumping | Cross-country | Cross-country | Cross-country | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance 1 | Distance 2 | Points | Rank | Time | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Helmut Böck | Individual | 66.0 | 66.5 | 190.0 | 24 | 59:13 | 228.700 | 11 | 418.700 | 19 |
| Gerhard Glaß | Individual | 72.0 | 72.5 | 203.5 | 9 | 1'04:17 | 209.100 | 30 | 412.600 | 24 |
| Herbert Leonhardt | Individual | 62.0 | 62.0 | 177.0 | 32 | 1'01:34 | 219.600 | 23 | 396.600 | 28 |
| Heinz Hauser | Individual | 71.0 | 67.5 | 195.0 | 20 | 1'00:43 | 222.900 | 17 | 417.900 | 21 |

## Ski jumping

| Athlete | Event | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 1 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Jump 2 | Total | Total |
| Athlete | Event | Distance | Points | Rank | Distance | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
| Sepp Kleisl | Normal hill | 73.0 | 95.0 | 29 | 71.0 | 94.0 | 26 | 189.0 | 26 |
| Werner Lesser | Normal hill | 77.5 | 105.0 | 10 | 77.5 | 105.0 | 8 | 210.0 | 8 |
| Max Bolkart | Normal hill | 80.0 | 111.5 | 3 | 81.5 | 111.0 | 4 | 222.5 | 4 |
| Harry Glaß | Normal hill | 83.5 | 115.0 | 1 | 80.5 | 109.5 | 7 | 224.5 | |

## Speed skating
### Men

| Event | Athlete | Race | Race |
| Event | Athlete | Time | Rank |
| 500 m | Helmut Kuhnert | 44.0 | 34 |
| 1500 m | Hans Keller | 2:18.1 | 35 |
| 5000 m | Hans Keller | 8:24.5 | 30 |
| 5000 m | Helmut Kuhnert | 8:04.8 | 9 |
| 10,000 m | Hans Keller | 17:27.7 | 21 |
| 10,000 m | Helmut Kuhnert | 17:04.6 | 10 |