Harro Bode

Harro Bode (born February 20, 1951 in Bad Sobernheim ) is a German sailor who became Olympic champion in 1976. Bode was chairman of the board of the Ruhrverband and is a leading German water management specialist.

Career

Harro Bode began his sailing career as a helmsman in the Pirate and later in the 470 . After his time in the Navy with a sports promotion command (sailing) on the Baltic Sea, he switched to the Flying Dutchman as a crew . From 1974 he sailed as a bowman together with Frank Hübner in the 470. Hübner and Bode won bronze at the European Championships in 1975. In 1976 at the Olympic regatta in front of Kingston , Hübner and Bode achieved three victories and became Olympic champions. Hübner and Bode sailed for the Sorpesee-Iserlohn sailing club . From 1976 to 1979, Bode was active spokesman for the German Sailing Association and a general sportsman's representative on the advisory board for active members of the German Sports Association.

Harro Bode studied civil engineering at the University of Hanover and did his doctorate on industrial wastewater treatment as a Dr.-Ing. He is an expert on water management issues. 1979/1980 he spent a year and a half as part of a research stay at the University of California in Berkeley, USA. Bode has been honorary professor at the University of Hanover since 1999, and since 2004, as chairman of the Ruhrverband, he has been responsible for water management in the Ruhr river basin. The Ruhr river basin also includes its former sailing areas, the Baldeneysee and the Sorpesee . Bode is an honorary board member of the German Association for Water Management, Sewage and Waste (DWA) and the Federal Association of Energy and Water Management (BDEW) as well as chairman of the German committee of the International Water Association (IWA). Together with KR Imhoff and P. Evers, he wrote the non-fiction book Design Examples for Municipal Sewage Treatment Plants and published a large number of scientific and water policy articles.