Hendrik Heron

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Hendrik Reiher (born January 25, 1962 in Eisenhüttenstadt ) is a former German rower who was represented in the German national teams from 1981 to 1992.

Life

Hendrik Reiher has been active in sports since he started school in 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt. First he trained as a gymnast in the training center of BSG Stahl Eisenhüttenstadt . When the first signs of success began in 1970, he was delegated as a gymnast to the Frankfurt (Oder) sports school in 1972. From 1975 he continued his training at the children's and youth sports school in Potsdam .

Shortly after a successful 6th place in the final on the rings at the GDR Spartakiade in 1977, he switched from gymnastics to rowing at SG Dynamo Potsdam a year later due to an injury . In 1982 he passed his Abitur . In the same year, Hendrik Reiher began studying sports science at the German University of Physical Culture in Leipzig , which he graduated with a diploma in 1989 .

Formally he worked during his studies and then until 1991 as an employee of the district authority of the German People's Police . In recognition of his sporting achievement, Hendrik Reiher received the Silver Laurel Leaf , the highest sporting award in the Federal Republic of Germany, from the hands of the then Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker in 1992 . In 1988 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold in the GDR . Like many other athletes, he has been with Deutsche Kreditbank AG since the fall of the Berlin Wall .

Hendrik Reiher is married for the second time, has three children and lives with his family in Caputh .

Sporting success as a helmsman

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland , 12./13. November 1988, p. 4

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personal data
SURNAME Heron, Hendrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rower
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenhüttenstadt