Grete Rosenberg

Grete Rosenberg (born October 7, 1896 in Hanover , † February 5, 1979 in Hildesheim ) was a German swimmer .

Career

Grete Rosenberg was a member of the Hanoverian swimming club from 1892 and at the age of 15 she took part in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm and reached the finals in both competitions for women. In the 100 meter freestyle she took fourth place and was two tenths of a second behind third place, the Briton Jennie Fletcher . The German 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay consisting of Wally Dressel , Louise Otto , Hermine Stindt and Grete Rosenberg crossed the finish line 11.8 seconds after the British Olympic champions, but had a 12.4 second lead over the third-placed Austrians.

In 1913 , Grete Rosenberg won her first German championship title on the 100 meter freestyle course. After a two-year hiatus due to the war, she won seven more titles in a row from 1916 to 1922 .

Awards

eight-time German champion 100 meters freestyle ( 1913 , 1916 , 1917 , 1918 , 1919 , 1920 , 1921 and 1922 )
1912: Olympic Games silver medal 4 x 100 meter freestyle relay
1922: Winner of German fighting games 100 meters freestyle

Honors

Legend board on Grete Rosenberg-Wildhagen-Weg in the sports park behind the buildings of the LandesSportBund Niedersachsen in Hanover

2010 Naming of a path south of the HDI-Arena in the Hannover Sports Park in Grete-Rosenberg-Wildhagen-Weg.

literature

Carl Diem : The Olympic Games 1912 , Berlin 1912, p. 98 ff.
Wolfgang Philipps: "There was a hard struggle between Miss Fletcher and Fräulein Rosenberg". A contribution to the history of swimming in Lower Saxony . In: Yearbook of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History , Vol. 20/21 (2017/2018), pp. 183–209
Wolfgang Philipps: Above water - under water. 125 years of the Hanover Swimming Club from 1892 , Hildesheim 2017, p. 29 ff.

Web links

Commons : Grete Rosenberg - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Grete Rosenberg in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
German championships: women's freestyle swimming

Individual evidence

^ Karl-Heinz Grotjahn MA: Hannoverscher Swim Club (HSV) v. 1892. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 265f.
↑ Conrad von Meding: Six new sporty names around the arena. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 16, 2010, p. 17

personal data
SURNAME	Rosenberg, Grete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rosenberg-Wildhagen, Grete
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 7, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hanover
DATE OF DEATH	5th February 1979
Place of death	Hildesheim

[SLH_HSV_v._1892-1] Karl-Heinz Grotjahn MA: Hannoverscher Swim Club (HSV) v. 1892. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 265f.

[2] Conrad von Meding: Six new sporty names around the arena. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 16, 2010, p. 17