Klaus Aeffke

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The European champions from 1964, batsman Klaus Aeffke is second from the right

Klaus Aeffke (born May 9, 1940 in Neustrelitz ) is a former German rower . In 1964 he was second in the eighth place in the Olympic Games .

The rower from the Ratzeburg rowing club belonged to the Germany eight trained by Karl Adam from 1962 to 1965 . At the first rowing world championships held on the Rotsee near Lucerne , the eighth team won with Horst Meyer , Jürgen Plagemann , Klaus Aeffke, Klaus Behrens , Hans-Jürgen Wallbrecht , Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck , Ingo Kliefoth , Bernd Kruse and helmsman Thomas Ahrens in front of the boats from the Soviet Union and from France. In 1963 the boat in the same line-up won the European Championships in Copenhagen ahead of the boats from the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia.

In 1964 Kliefoth and Kruse were replaced by Klaus Bittner and Jürgen Schröder , Klaus Aeffke moved into the stern of the boat. In the changed line-up, the boat won the European Championships in Amsterdam ahead of the boats from the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia. At the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo, the German eighth won his preliminary run ahead of the boats from the USA, Italy and Yugoslavia, while the boats from Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union won the other two preliminary runs. The boat from the USA, as well as the Italians and the Yugoslavs, also reached the finals via the hope races. While the Germans had beaten the boat from the USA by 28 hundredths of a second in the lead-up, the Americans distanced the Germans by five seconds in the final, behind the USA and Germany the boat from Czechoslovakia won the bronze medal.

At the European Championships in 1965, the German boat was made up of Horst Meyer, Dirk Schreyer , Christian Prey , Klaus Behrens, Dagobert Thometschek , Jürgen Schröder, Hans-Jürgen Wallbrecht and Klaus Aeffke, and the new helmsman was Peter Niehusen . This boat won ahead of the boats from the Soviet Union and the guest starters from the United States, in whose boat there were still five rowers from the 1964 Olympic championship boat.

After these European championships the boat was completely re-manned, only Meyer, Schreyer and Niehusen belonged to the 1966 crew that won the world championship title in Bled. Klaus Aeffke ended his career after an Olympic silver medal, a world championship title and three European championships. In 2009 Klaus Aeffke was honored by his rowing club in Ratzeburg for fifty years of membership.

On July 11, 1963, the Federal President awarded him the Silver Laurel Leaf for his achievements.

literature

  • Bodo Harenberg (editorial): The stars of the sport from A-Z . Darmstadt 1970
  • Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Minutes of the annual general meeting 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 30, 2009.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rrc-online.de  
  2. Sports report of the federal government of September 26, 1973 to the Bundestag - printed matter 7/1040 - page 74