Harry von Rochow

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Harry von Rochow on Idealist at the 1912 Olympic Games

Friedrich Leopold Harry von Rochow (born August 12, 1881 at Reckahn Castle , Zauch-Belzig district , Brandenburg province , † August 17, 1945 there ) was a German officer and landowner . He was one of the earliest winners of Olympic medals in riding for Germany.

Life

Rochow grew up on the Reckahn estate, which has belonged to various lines of his family for centuries. Harry was the son of Rudolf August Hans Rochus von Rochow auf Reckahn, goddess and Meßdunk (born August 13, 1843 in Hammer, † 1919), Imperial Knight of the Order of St. John, Prussian captain and his wife Victoria Rosa Adele von Olearius (born December 15, 1857 in Reichenbach (Silesia) ). He belonged to the top class in Germany in the equestrian discipline eventing (military) . At the Summer Olympics in Stockholm in 1912 , Oberleutnant von Rochow on his horse "Idealist" stepped together with Oberleutnant Eduard von Lütcken , Rittmeister Carl von Moers and Lieutenant Richard Graf von Schaesberg-Tannheim in individual and team competitions against the favored teams from Sweden , France and the USA and won the silver medal in both disciplines.

He took part in the First World War as a cavalry officer on the Eastern Front. After being shot in the lung, he was first taken to a Russian hospital and then to a prison camp, from which he was able to escape.

After the death of his father in 1919 Rochow inherited the Reckahn estate and in the same year married Hertha von dem Hagen , mistress of Gollwitz , the widow of his brother Wichard von Rochow, who died in World War I. On his estates Harry operational by Rochow how long his ancestors, a horse breeding of Trakehner .

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  1. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1901, p. 761.
personal data
SURNAME Rochow, Harry von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rochow, Friedrich Leopold Harry von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German equestrian
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Reckahn Castle , Zauch-Belzig District , Prussia , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH August 17, 1945
Place of death Reckahn Castle