Oberhof (pps) Margit Schumann and Klaus Bonsack (both Germans) as well as the Italian Paul Hildgartner have the honour of being admitted as the first members to the International Luge Federation’s (FIL) „Hall of Fame“. During the opening ceremony of the European Championships in artificial track luge in Oberhof, the President of the FIL, Mr. Josef Fendt carried out the official admission to the "Hall of fame" in the sport of luge.
1976, Margit Schumann was Olympic Champion in Innsbruck and four-times World Champion for the German Democratic Republic. Klaus Bonsack was Olympic Champion in 1968 in the doubles discipline and gained the second place at the Olympic Winter Games in 1964 in men’s singles discipline, also for the German Democratic Republic. In 1972, Paul Hildgartner (Italy) won the gold medal in the doubles discipline and in 1984 in the men’s singles‘ discipline in Sarajevo.