Hans-Joachim Hannemann (rower)

Hans-Joachim Hannemann ( April 5, 1915 - March 6, 1989 ) was a German rower who won an Olympic bronze medal with an eighth in 1936.

Hans-Joachim Hannemann began rowing in 1928. From 1934 to 1937 he belonged to the rowing company Wiking Berlin and then moved to the Berlin rowing club . After the Second World War he returned to Wiking Berlin and was first chairman of the association from 1950 to 1952. Later Hannemann was a trainer at RC Tegel and the rowing club at Wannsee . From 1958 he was a referee of the FISA .

At the German Championships in Berlin in 1936, the eighth of Wiking Berlin won ahead 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 championships, was held on the Berlin-Grünau regatta course . 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.

At the German Championships in 1936, Völs, Loeckle, Hannemann and Schmidt took second place in the four without a helmsman in addition to the title in eighth, and in 1937 the four rowers took third place. After moving to Berlin RC in 1938, he was the only member of the bronze eight from 1936 on the boat that, after winning the German championship, also won the European rowing championships in Milan . In 1941 Hannemann won the German championships in two without a helmsman together with Helmut Baltrusch, both of whom were also in eight, who also won the German championship. Hannemann won two further championship titles in 1944 in a four-man with a helmsman and in 1947 in a four-man without a helmsman.

Web links

• Hans-Joachim Hannemann in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• German champions in the eighth
• Obituary of the RG Wiking