Gerd Völs

Gerd Völs (born December 22, 1909 , † March 15, 1991 in Hanover ) was a German rower who won an Olympic bronze medal with an eighth in 1936.

Gerd Völs initially started for the rowing company Wiking Berlin . At the German Championship in Berlin in 1936, he won in the eighth of Wiking Berlin in front of two eights, which had been formed as cross-club rowing communities for the Olympic Games. The eighth of Wiking Berlin qualified for the Olympic regatta , which, like the German championship, was held on the Berlin-Grünau regatta route . The boat in the line-up of Alfred Rieck , Helmut Radach , Hans Kuschke , Heinz Kaufmann , Gerd Völs, Werner Loeckle , Hans-Joachim Hannemann , Herbert Schmidt and helmsman Wilhelm Mahlow took second place behind the boat from the third run at the Olympic regatta Switzerland, but was able to qualify as the winner of the first intermediate run for the final. In the finals, the first three boats reached the finish line within a second, the boat from the United States won ahead of the Italians and the Germans.

Völs, Loeckle, Hannemann and Schmidt had taken second place in the four without a helmsman in the German championship in 1936 in addition to the title in eighth , in 1937 the four rowers took third place. Völs later rowed for the Berlin rowing club and the rowing community Angaria Hanover . In 1942, the four without a helmsman of the Berlin RC with the line-up of Gerd Völs, Walter Volle , Hans Kuschke and Herbert Schmidt became German champions.

After his sports career, Gerd Völs worked as a building contractor in Hanover. He volunteered his life as a trainer for his home club, the rowing community Angaria, on whose property he also lived in a small house.

Web links

• Gerd Völs in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• German champions in the eighth
• German champions in four without a helmsman