Berthold Küttner

Berthold Küttner
nation	German Empire
birthday	1870
place of birth	Szczecin , German Empire
job	engineer
Career
discipline	Double scull
society	ARV Berlin
Medal table
Olympic games

Berthold Küttner (* 1870 in Stettin ; † unknown) was a German rower .

Career

Berthold Küttner started for the Academic Rowing Club Berlin-Grünau (ARV). In 1896 he was delegated to the Summer Olympics with Alfred Jäger in a double scull.

The rowing competitions were scheduled for April 13th in the port of Piraeus . Since the competition from Greece and Italy did not start due to the weather conditions, Berthold Küttner and Alfred Jäger were presented with the bronze medal by Prince Georg of Greece , President of the Olympic Organizing Committee and Chairman of the Subcommittee for Nautical Sports.

Then Berthold Küttner and Alfred Jäger went to the cycling track, where they made themselves available to the eventual winner Adolf Schmal as a pacemaker in the 12-hour race .

Web links

Berthold Küttner: The ARV at the 1st Olympiad in Athens at home.arcor.de/gerd.breuer (with picture)
Hans Lenk , Kraft Schepke : The first Olympic victory in rowing in 1896 - unrivaled and forgotten on the website of the German Rowing Association
Cornelia Dieme: "Hai-Live": Two Berlin rowers in Athens in 1896. In: The world . August 14, 2004

Notes and individual references

↑ At the Olympic Summer Games in 1896, silver medals were awarded for the winner and bronze medals for the runner-up, but Küttner and Jäger received a "bronze winner's medal". Possibly this was an additional cost-saving measure in the rowing area, see Karl Lennartz (Ed.): Olympische Siege. Medals, diplomas, honors. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00865-9 , p. 99 ff.
↑ Berthold Küttner: The ARV at the 1st Olympiad in Athens ( Memento from June 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on home.arcor.de/gerd.breuer

personal data
SURNAME	Küttner, Berthold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German rower
DATE OF BIRTH	1870
PLACE OF BIRTH	Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH	19th century or 20th century

[1] At the Olympic Summer Games in 1896, silver medals were awarded for the winner and bronze medals for the runner-up, but Küttner and Jäger received a "bronze winner's medal". Possibly this was an additional cost-saving measure in the rowing area, see Karl Lennartz (Ed.): Olympische Siege. Medals, diplomas, honors. Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00865-9 , p. 99 ff.

[2] Berthold Küttner: The ARV at the 1st Olympiad in Athens ( Memento from June 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on home.arcor.de/gerd.breuer