Gerhard von Düsterlho

Gerhard von Düsterlho
nation	German Empire
birthday	March 13, 1910
place of birth	Magdeburg ,  German Empire
date of death	February 13, 1973
Place of death	Mannheim ,  FR Germany
size	183 cm
job	doctor
Career
discipline	Double sculls , foursome , eight
society	Rowing Association Alt-Werder Magdeburg

Gerhard von Düsterlho (born March 13, 1910 in Magdeburg , † February 13, 1973 in Mannheim ) was a German rower and doctor .

biography

Gerhard von Düsterlho competed for the rowing association Alt-Werder Magdeburg , together with his club mate Herbert Buhtz he became German champion in double sculls in 1929 and 1930 . The duo split up because of differences of opinion, von Düsterlho switched to eighth in 1932 and Buhtz joined the Berlin rowing club from then on.

At the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , Gerhard von Düsterlho was part of the crew of the German eight. However, the crew dropped out in the run-up and took sixth place.

He was also able to qualify for the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin with the foursome, but participation was prevented by an injury.

After his medical state examination in 1937, von Düsterlho first worked as a gynecologist in Magdeburg and was appointed to the German army in 1939. As a medical officer, he was taken prisoner in Romania in early 1944. He was then deported to Siberia and only released at the end of 1948. After the Second World War, from which he returned with severe tuberculosis, in 1954 he became chief doctor of gynecology in the city hospital in Potsdam - Babelsberg . In November 1960 he fled the GDR with his wife and three children. He then practiced in Mannheim until he died of bone cancer in 1973.

Web links

• Gerhard von Düsterlho in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )