Gustav Goßler

This article deals with the rower Gustav Goßler. On the politician see Gustav von Goßler .

Gustav Ludwig Goßler (born April 4, 1879 in Hamburg , † April 4, 1940 there ) was a German rower who became the first German Olympic champion in rowing in 1900 with the four-man with helmsman .

Olympic participation

At the Olympic Games in 1900 , the first Olympic rowing competitions were held on the Seine in Paris. The Hamburg and Germania Ruder Club had sent the crew to Paris for an eight . Some rowers from this eighth, namely Gustav Goßler, his brother Oskar Goßler as well as Walther Katzenstein and Waldemar Tietgens also competed in the four with a helmsman. In the heats on August 25th, the eighth qualified for the final as third of his heat and the four with helmsman as first of his heat. The final in the eighth took place on August 26th. For the final, the Hamburg team exchanged their helmsman Alexander Gleichmann von Oven for a younger and 45 pound lighter French helmsman, but could not handle the other weight distribution in the boat and took fourth place.

In the foursome with helmsman there were protests against the qualification, which should be corrected on August 26th in an elimination race. Not all participants had been informed about this, so some boats were missing, including the four from Germania Hamburg. The decision was then made to count the result of the elimination race as the official final result and to organize another official final on August 27th for the three boats that had missed this race. This compromise means that there will be two official finals for the 1900 Olympic Games with official Olympic champions, Olympic champions and Olympic thirds.

In addition to the Hamburg boat, teams from Minerva Amsterdam and the Ludwigshafen rowing club competed in the second final on August 27th . The Hamburg team appointed another brother of Gustav and Oskar Goßler, 15-year-old Carl Goßler , as helmsman . The Hamburg team won the race by more than a boat length over the Amsterdam team, who in turn reached the finish just ahead of the Ludwigshafen team. The Hamburg victory was not only the first ever Olympic victory for German rowers, but also the first ever victory for a German boat in a major regatta abroad.

Life

Gustav Ludwig Goßler was the son of the lawyer and chairman of the Hamburg Maritime Administration Carl Oscar Goßler (1843–1899) and his wife Elisabeth (* 1848). The businessman Carl Oscar Goßler (1875–1953) and the professional officer Carl Heinrich Goßler (1885–1914) were his brothers. Goßler worked as a businessman. He won a total of 54 regattas. Gustav Goßler died on his 61st birthday.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .
• Karl Lennartz , Walter Teutenberg: II. Olympic Games 1900 in Paris. Presentation and sources. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1995, ISBN 3-928562-20-7 .
• Bernhard Koerner: German gender book . tape 19 . Starke, Görlitz 1911, p. 40-41 .

Web links

• Gustav Goßler at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Gustav Goßler in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death Register Hamburg 03, 1940, Volume 1, Entry No. 296
2. ↑ Volker Kluge, page 112, note 214
3. ↑ Volker Kluge, page 111f, note 201
4. ↑ Lennartz and Teutenberg, page 103
5. ↑ Volker Kluge, page 112, note 206