Fritz Kniese

Fritz Kniese (* 1869 in Berlin ; † 1918 in Berlin) was a German swimmer who was active in the late 19th century and is counted among the pioneers of German swimming.

At the German Swimming Championships in 1892 , 1893 , 1894 and 1895 , he won the title over 1500 m freestyle .

When he started abroad in London in 1894 , Kniese got to know the water polo game invented in the British Isles and brought it back to Germany.

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German swimming championships

Individual evidence

↑ See Karl Adolf Scherer et al. (Ed.): 100 Years of the German Swimming Association. A documentation , Munich 1986, p. 196
↑ See Wolfgang Philipps: "Aquatic football", "aquatic polo", "water-polo" ... Basics of the history of water polo in Great Britain and Hanover (1870 to 1933) . In: Christian Becker et al. (Ed.), “When sport came to Hanover” - history and reception of a cultural transfer between England and northern Germany from the 18th to the 20th century , Münster et al. 2015 (series of publications by the Lower Saxony Institute for Sport History eV . - Wissenschaftliche Reihe, Vol. 24), pp. 107–135, here pp. 121 ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Kniese, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH	1869
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	1918
Place of death	Berlin

[1] See Karl Adolf Scherer et al. (Ed.): 100 Years of the German Swimming Association. A documentation , Munich 1986, p. 196

[2] See Wolfgang Philipps: "Aquatic football", "aquatic polo", "water-polo" ... Basics of the history of water polo in Great Britain and Hanover (1870 to 1933) . In: Christian Becker et al. (Ed.), “When sport came to Hanover” - history and reception of a cultural transfer between England and northern Germany from the 18th to the 20th century , Münster et al. 2015 (series of publications by the Lower Saxony Institute for Sport History eV . - Wissenschaftliche Reihe, Vol. 24), pp. 107–135, here pp. 121 ff.