Martin Kilian

Martin Kilian (21 May 1928–2 July 2014) was an East German bobsledder and politician of the Socialist Unity Party.

After the expulsion of Germans from Silesia during and after World War II, Kilian settled in Nachterstedt and was employed as a miner before moving to Wernigerode.

By the end of the decade he was made principal of the Wilhelm Rabbe High School.

In 1982 he became the president of the German Sled and Bobsleigh Association (DSBV), in which capacity he served until shortly before the dissolution of the GDR.

In 2016, a large pedestrian bridge he helped create in Wernigerode was renamed in his honor.