Claus Hess

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Claus Gert Heß (born June 23, 1933 in Düsseldorf ; † April 2, 2018 ) was a German rower .

In 1952 the lightweight four without a helmsman from the Germania Dusseldorf rowing club won the German championship title in 1904 with the nineteen-year-old Theo Henke, Horst Kloeters, Dieter Verleger and Claus Hess. In the following year Theo Henke, Dieter Verleger, Helmut Sauermilch and Claus Hess rowed into third place in the heavy four without a helmsman . From 1954, Sauermilch and Hess formed a pair without a helmsman . After a second place at the German Championships in 1954, the two won in 1955 and 1956. In 1956, the two Düsseldorfers also qualified for the Olympic Games in Melbourne . There the two won the second preliminary run, but were eliminated in third place in the second semi-final, as only four boats were allowed for the final.

After a two-year break and his doctorate as an economist at the University of Würzburg , Claus Heß returned to rowing in 1959. The Düsseldorf four-man with helmsman with Klaus Wegner , Gerd Cintl , Horst Effertz , Claus Hess and helmsman Michael Obst won the German championship title in the four-man with helmsman in 1959. Then the four-man also won the 1959 European Championships in Mâcon. The European championship team received the silver laurel leaf as an award in 1960 .

In 1960, the Düsseldorf eight with Klaus Wegner, Jürgen Litz , Manfred Uellner , Gerd Cintl, Horst Effertz, Claus Heß, Klaus Riekemann , Günter Schroers and helmsman Michael Obst was runner-up behind the Germany eight from Ratzeburg and Kiel, who in the same year also did the Olympic final won. Litz, Cintl, Effertz, Riekemann and Obst won Olympic gold in a four with helmsman . The Dusseldorf four without a helmsman with Hess, Wegner, Uellner and Schroers took third place in the championships and could not qualify for the all-German team at the Olympic Games.

Claus Heß was President of the German Rowing Association from 1966 to 1983 . In World Rowing Association , he served from 1979 to 1993 as vice president. From 1974 to 1993 Claus Heß was also vice-president of the NOK . Heß was the head of the delegation at the Summer Olympics in 1988 and 1992 . Claus Hess had been honorary president of the German Rowing Association since 1983.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ German championships in the lightweight foursome
  2. ↑ German championships in four-man without a helmsman
  3. ↑ German championships in four with a helmsman
  4. ↑ German championships in the eighth
  5. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 , p. 470, note 444.
personal data
SURNAME Hess, Claus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hess, Claus Gert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rower
DATE OF BIRTH June 23, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH 2nd April 2018