Herbert Buhtz

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Herbert Buhtz (born April 12, 1911 in Magdeburg , † June 7, 2006 in Berlin ) was a German rowing athlete and Olympic runner-up in the double scull from 1932.

Life

Herbert Buhtz learned to row at the rowing association Alt-Werder Magdeburg . When he was just 18 years old, he and Gerhard von Düsterlho became German champions in double sculls in Berlin . This title was the first German championship title for a Magdeburg rowing club. In 1930 both were able to repeat this success.

Grave of Herbert Buhtz in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

Buhtz moved to the Berliner Ruder-Club (BRC) and won the German championship in the single class there in 1931. At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , Herbert Buhtz from the Berlin Rowing Club (BRC) rowed the silver medal in the double scull with his club mate Gerhard Boetzelen . Originally, coach Tom Sullivan had not nominated Buhtz for the Olympic squad.

He was also European champion and runner-up and rowed a total of ten national championship titles. In 1931 he had won the Henley Royal Regatta for the "Diamond Sculls" with his first of two victories in the one and was thus internationally known.

Buhtz did not take part in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin and ended his sporting career in 1938.

After the end of the Second World War, the doctor of dentistry was the founding chairman of the re-establishment of the Berlin Rowing Club and the Berlin Regatta Club from 1881 (today LRV Berlin ). In addition, since 1958 he was successful as a trainer at the BRC, of ​​which he was an honorary member.

Herbert Buhtz died two months after his 95th birthday in June 2006 in Berlin. His grave is in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: IV-1-48). He rests there next to his wife Gertrud Buhtz (1914–1997).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Veronika de Haas: Herbert Buhtz (born 1911) . In: Der Tagesspiegel . December 29, 2006. Retrieved November 20, 2019.
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 485.
personal data
SURNAME Buhtz, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rowing athlete and Olympic runner-up in double sculls (1932)
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 2006
Place of death Berlin