Hugo Strauss (rower)

Hugo Strauss (born June 25, 1907 in Mannheim , † November 1, 1941 in Golodajewa, Sverdlovsk Oblast ) was a German rower who became Olympic champion in 1936 with the two-man without helmsman .

Hugo Strauss and Willi Eichhorn came second in the German championship in 1935. The following year, the two rowers from Mannheim RC from 1875 won the title and thus qualified for the 1936 Olympic Games . There the two rowed their way straight into the final with a victory in the third heat. In the final they won by three seconds ahead of the boat from Denmark. In 1938, the two Mannheimers finished second again in the German championship.

On Strauss' initiative, a roller skating department was set up in Mannheim RC from 1936. This resulted in the Mannheim Ice and Roller Sports Club , whose first chairman Strauss was elected.

In 1939 he was a member of the SS-Totenkopf-Standard "Thuringia" . He fell on the Eastern Front in 1941 .

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .
• Ernst-Günther Poch: warn the fate of athletes! , 1991, p. 18.

Web links

• Hugo Strauss in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• German championships in two without a helmsman

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The history of the club: figure skating. (pdf) In: www.merc-online.de. Retrieved January 16, 2016 . 
2. ^ Matthias Fries, Die Adler Mannheim (ed.): 75 years ice hockey city Mannheim . Catalog for the exhibition in the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen 2012, p. 13