Horst Hoeck

Horst Hoeck
nation	Germany
birthday	May 19, 1904
place of birth	Berlin
date of death	April 6, 1969
Place of death	West Berlin
Career
society	Berlin rowing club
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × DM medals 3 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold 1932 Los Angeles Foursome m. Helmsman German rowing championships gold 1926 Eighth gold 1928 Double scull gold 1931 four

Horst Hoeck (born May 19, 1904 in Berlin , † April 6, 1969 in West Berlin ) was a German rower who became Olympic champion in a four-man team in 1932 .

Horst Hoeck, the son of the innkeeper Wilhelm Hoeck from Berlin-Charlottenburg , started for the Berlin Rowing Club and changed in his career between Sweep Rowing and Skull rowing . In 1926 he won the German championship with eighth place . Two years later he competed in double sculls with Gerhard Voigt and won his second championship title. At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 , Voigt and Hoeck took fourth place.

In 1931 Hoeck won the German championship with the four of the Berlin RC. In 1932 Joachim Spremberg and Horst Hoeck from the 1931 foursome sat in the German foursome at the 1932 Olympic Games . In the line-up of Hans Eller , Horst Hoeck, Walter Meyer , Joachim Spremberg and helmsman Carlheinz Neumann , the boat won by a narrow margin over the Italian boat.

As a businessman, Hoeck did business in South America in 1929/30. After the death of his father in 1933, he took over his restaurant with the attached liqueur and schnapps production. In his first marriage (1935-1941) he was married to the UFA actress Margot Milesi († 1942, real name Margot Ruth Lüchen ). In 1942 he married Ingrid Patermann for the second time. She was the daughter of the owner of the Biomalz company in Teltow . In 1943 he became its director and operations manager. Presumably because of bomb damage in Berlin, the couple moved to Kleinmachnow and lived there to rent. In 1947 he was commissioned by the Soviet military administration to temporarily organize the food and drink supply in East Berlin. When he declined to do this with a thoughtless remark, he was arrested, seriously injured while trying to escape and was taken to hospital. His wife then took a West Berlin ambulance to the military hospital, where she was able to free her husband and flee with him to West Berlin. As the Soviets subsequently tried to get him back into their hands by kidnapping his wife and children, he brought his family to safety on Lake Starnberg .

Until shortly before his death he continued to run his father's restaurant, which had been spared from the war. Founded in 1892, it was one of the oldest in the borough and often the setting for various film and television productions. In addition, he was deputy chairman of the Berlin Rowing Club from 1956 to 1958.

Hoeck was married a total of three times. Due to the distance to his family, his second marriage failed. In 1967 he married his third wife Hildegard. He had a daughter (* 1939) from his first marriage and three other children, two sons and a daughter, from his second marriage. The third marriage was childless.

In August 2015, workers found his Olympic medal during construction work in a safe in his landlord's villa in Kleinmachnow .

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .
• Bodo Harenberg (Red.): The stars of sport from A – Z. Darmstadt 1970
• Matthias Gerschwitz: Molle and medal: Wilhelm Hoeck 1892: An old Berlin pub between Zille and Olympia, Books on Demand 2008/2015, ISBN 978-3739216164 (new edition)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Family visit for 1932 gold medal. Märkische Allgemeine , August 13, 2015, accessed on August 23, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Olympic gold is coming home soon. Märkische Allgemeine , August 13, 2015, accessed on August 23, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Olympic gold belonged to a rower. Märkische Allgemeine , August 12, 2015, accessed on August 23, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Golden riddle solved. The enigmatic gold medal in Kleinmachnow. Potsdam Latest News , August 12, 2015, accessed on August 23, 2015 . 

Web links

• Horst Hoeck in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )