Carl Goßler

This article deals with the rower Carl Goßler. On the politician see Karl Goßler ; on the judge see Karl Gustav von Goßler .

Carl Heinrich Goßler (born April 17, 1885 in Hamburg ; † September 9, 1914 in Maurupt-le-Montois , Département Marne , France ) was a German rower who became the first German Olympic champion in rowing in 1900 with the four-man helmsman his brothers Gustav and Oskar.

Olympic participation

At the Olympic Games in 1900 , the first Olympic rowing competitions were held on the Seine in Paris. The Hamburger and Germania Ruder Club provided a four-man with a helmsman with Gustav Goßler , Oskar Goßler , Walther Katzenstein , Waldemar Tietgens and Carl Goßler as helmsmen . In the heats on August 25th, the four-man with helmsman was able to qualify as the first of his heats for the final.

However, there were protests about the qualification of the boats that had crossed the finish line behind Germania's boat, which was to be corrected in an elimination race on August 26th. Not all participants had been informed about this, so some boats were missing, including the four from Germania Hamburg. The decision was then made to count the result of the elimination race as the official final result and to organize another official final on August 27th for the three boats that had missed this race. This compromise means that there will be two official finals for the 1900 Olympic Games with official Olympic champions, Olympic champions and Olympic thirds.

In addition to the Hamburg boat, teams from Minerva Amsterdam and the Ludwigshafen rowing club competed in the second final on August 27th . The Hamburg team won the race by more than a boat length over the Amsterdam team, who in turn reached the finish just ahead of the Ludwigshafen team. The Hamburg victory was not only the first ever Olympic victory for German rowers, but also the first ever victory for a German boat in a major regatta abroad.

Carl Goßler was still a student at the time of his Olympic victory.

Life

Carl Heinrich Goßler was the son of the lawyer and chairman of the Hamburg Maritime Administration Carl Oscar Goßler (1843–1899) and his wife Elisabeth (* 1848). The merchants Carl Oscar Goßler (1875–1953) and Gustav Ludwig Goßler (1879–1940) were his brothers. In contrast to his two brothers, he did not become a businessman, but a career officer. Goßler was since January 27, 1907 lieutenant in the infantry regiment "Kaiser Wilhelm" (2nd Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 116 in Giessen . He fell right at the beginning of the First World War .

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .
• Karl Lennartz , Walter Teutenberg: II. Olympic Games 1900 in Paris. Presentation and sources. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1995, ISBN 3-928562-20-7 .
• Bernhard Koerner: German gender book . tape 19 . Starke, Görlitz 1911, p. 40-41 .

Web links

• Carl Goßler at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Carl Goßler in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ With Volker Kluge he is called Carl-Alfred Goßler, with Karl Lennartz and Walter Teutenberg he is called Carl Heinrich Goßler. Both variants can also be found in other books. The world rowing association FISA leads him as Carl-Heinrich Goßler.
2. ↑ Volker Kluge, page 111f, note 201
3. ↑ Lennartz and Teutenberg, page 103
4. ↑ Volker Kluge, page 112, note 207