Wolfgang Kummer

Wolfgang Kummer was a member of the Germany II four-man bob team at the 1936 Garmisch Winter Olympics, which crashed in the first run. The first run was eventful, as three of the 18 teams failed to finish. The crew of Germany II saw their bob continue without them, the second French bob lost its brakesman, while the Czechoslovakians became airborne and crashed. In 1935 and 1937 Kummer became German four-man bob champion with BC Oberhof.

During World War II Kummer, a trained teaching pilot risked execution after failing to return to the army after a home leave. After the war he left his wife with six children and moved to the former GDR and entered a world of criminal activity, accepting money for goods which he failed to deliver and a warrant was out for his arrest. He later fled to West Germany and settled in Cologne.