Fritz Bauer (rower)

Fritz Bauer (born June 23, 1906 in Breslau ; † September 19, 1992 in Mannheim ) was a German rowing helmsman who became Olympic champion in 1936.

Bauer joined the Mannheim rowing club Amicitia from 1876 , only in the 1938 season he started for the rowing club Wratislavia Breslau . His first German championship title won Bauer 1928 as helmsman of the Mannheim rowing eight , 1929, 1930 and 1931, he won another title with the eighth. In 1929, 1930, 1936 and 1947 he won the German championship title with the Mannheim four-man with helmsman , in 1938 he drove the Breslau four-man to the German championship, this boat also won the title at the European championship in Milan in 1938 .

Bauer took part in the Olympic Games three times: in 1928 in Amsterdam he was eliminated with the eighth in the third round, as only two boats reached the final, the placements were determined from the results of the previous races, the German eighth is listed as fifth. In 1932 in Los Angeles four eights reached the final, the German eighth was eliminated as the second-placed boat of the second repechage run , the placement also corresponds to a fifth place. Four years later, at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin , Bauer and a Mannheim-Ludwigshafen racing team made up of Hans Maier , Walter Volle , Ernst Gaber and Paul Söllner won the Olympic final in a four-man team with a helmsman eight seconds ahead of the boat from Switzerland.

literature

• Bodo Harenberg (ed.): The stars of the sport from A-Z . Darmstadt 1970

Web links

• Fritz Bauer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• German successes at European championships
• German champions in four with helmsman
• German champions in the eighth