Hans-Johann Färber

Hans-Johann Färber (born April 20, 1947 in Schljiwoßewci , Osijek-Baranja , People's Republic of Yugoslavia ) is a former German rower. He competed for the German Rowing Association and became Olympic champion, world champion and European champion.

Life

In 1967 the two-man without helmsman of the rowing company Wetzlar became German champions in 1880 with Udo Brecht and Hans-Johann Färber. At the European Championships in 1967, the two finished third. In a pair with a helmsman, Peter Berger , Niko Ott and helmsman Stefan Armbruster from Neptun Konstanz became German champions in 1967 . In 1968 the two men competed in a racing community as a four-man with a helmsman and won the title at the German championship. At the 1968 Olympic Games , this foursome missed the finals. The B final took place without the West German foursome after Berger and Brecht fell ill. Roland Boese from the German eighth was also ill , Färber and Ott were the replacement candidates. The national coach Karl Adam suggested Färber, but the eight team decided for Niko Ott, who then became Olympic champion with the German eighth.

In 1969, a new foursome was built around batsman Peter Berger and Hans-Johann Färber, Alois Bierl from the Ludwigshafen rowing club and Gerhard Auer from Ulm joined the boat, which became known as the bull foursome because of the great strength of the four rowers . With helmsman Stefan Voncken , the four became European champions in 1969 and world champions in 1970. In 1971 the boat defended its European championship with helmsman Uwe Benter . The boat, which had been unbeaten for years, was a huge favorite for the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. On September 2nd, the regatta course in Oberschleißheim was sold out, but the rush of visitors without tickets was so great that the fences couldn't hold up. The bull quad steered by Uwe Benter won the expected gold medal safely in front of the boats from the GDR and Czechoslovakia, it was to remain the only rowing gold for the Federal Republic in 1972.

For this success, he and the entire bull quad team received the Silver Laurel Leaf on September 11, 1972 .

At the 1974 World Championships, a new four-man with a helmsman entered, in which, Färber and Benter, two Olympic champions from 1972 sat; In addition, there were two internationally successful rowers, Peter-Michael Kolbe and Peter Niehusen, as well as the young Berlin-based Ralph Kubail . The newly assembled boat took third place behind the boats from the GDR and the Soviet Union at the World Championships in Lucerne. In 1975 the Wetzlar four-man with Färber, Siegfried Fricke , Christoph Pitzer, Andreas Fischer and helmsman Werner Kahl won the German championship title. From this crew only Färber belonged to the foursome at the 1975 World Cup in Nottingham. In the line-up of Färber, Kubail, Dieter Knief , Niehusen and helmsman Hartmut Wenzel , the four-man won the bronze medal again. In 1976 a racing team with Hans-Johann Färber, Siegfried Fricke, Gerhard Auer, Christoph Pitzer and Hartmut Wenzel won the German championship title. Auer and Pitzer had to leave the boat for the Olympic Games in Montreal ; Niehusen and Kubail came on board and won bronze at the season highlight for the third time in a row.

Färber was a trained butcher, but pursued his sporting career as a professional soldier. Later he was head of the Munich Olympic Training Center for many years. In 2001 he switched to the Hellabrunn zoo as commercial director , where he formed the board of directors with the veterinarian Henning Wiesner for six years . He is now retired and lives with his family in Erding.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .
• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Mexico 1968. Our team . Frankfurt am Main 1968
• National Olympic Committee for Germany: Munich Kiel 1972. The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany . Frankfurt am Main 1972
• National Olympic Committee for Germany: The Olympic team of the Federal Republic of Germany . Frankfurt am Main 1976

Web links

• Hans-Johann Färber in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• German successes at world championships
• German successes at European championships
• German championships foursome with helmsman
• Interview with Färber in the Dill-Post in 2010 (accessed on January 2, 2016)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sports report of the federal government of September 26, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - page 76