Career
He competed at 50 km for East Germany in the 1960s and 1970s. He was trained by Max Weber. His Olympic victory made history as his margin of victory was over ten minutes.
He participated in an episode of the cold war in sports at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich: On the evening before the race, East German officials received an anonymous tip that he wanted to defect during the 50 km race.
They did not believe the allegations, but Höhne went to the start line unnerved and finished in fourteenth place. After his sports career, he studied photography and became a well known sports photographer in East Germany.
After the unification of Germany, he has done freelance photography for the daily newspapers Junge Welt and Sportecho.
