Klaus Filter

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Klaus Filter at the GDR rowing championships in 1955 in one

Klaus Filter (born February 5, 1933 in Berlin ) is a German boat developer. He was East Germany - racing rowers , director of the Institute for Research and Development of Sports Equipment (FES), Chairman of the Materials Committee of the International Rowing Federation (FISA) and dedicated to the development of rowing in the Third World .

life and career

In 1949, two years after he started rowing, Filter rowed his first regatta in Berlin-Grünau . For completing the ten-kilometer route, he and his rowing partner won the first trophy. According to his own statements, he had built up the stamina for this on hiking trips by trying to catch up with motor boats. Because he remained true to touring rowing as a successful racing rower and rowed many thousands of kilometers a year, he turned the former "interval training theory" on its head. Strength endurance, the basis of today's training theory, was combined with fun and achieved. As a result, the rowing duo Roger Hoffmann and Klaus Filter won all competitions in an easy two for six years, from 1954 to 1959 . In the mid-1950s , Filter also competed in the single and became all-German champion . From 1950 to 1960 he was a member of the GDR national team , but had to "ride with the heavyweights" because the lightweights did not yet exist internationally. After that, the seven-time GDR champion ended his rowing career.

Filter began his professional career in 1949 with an apprenticeship as a boat builder at the Friedrich Pirsch shipyard in Berlin, which was founded in Berlin-Oberschöneweide in 1920 and no longer exists . In 1956 he completed this with a master's examination. His journeyman's piece was a one that was delivered to the Soviet Union . The special thing about it : In this boat, Yuri Sergejewitsch Tjukalow rowed the first gold medal at the 1952 Olympic Games for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or USSR for short.

He prematurely ended his sports studies, which Filter had taken up during his time as a racing rower and which was owed to his wish to become a rowing trainer, in 1960. Instead, he enrolled at the Warnemünde Engineering School for Ship Technology in Rostock-Warnemünde . He graduated from this degree in 1965 as a shipbuilding engineer.

In 1961, Filter and others founded the Institute for Research and Development of Sports Equipment (FES), which was initially intended to be a branch of the German University of Physical Culture . For a while he was technical director there. Filter was awarded the National Prize of the GDR, III. In 1972 and 1976, with a collective for its work at the FES . Excellent for science and technology . Filter retired in 1993.

Filter developed numerous boats and boat shapes. This included children's boats as well as the national team's boat fleet. Already during the GDR era, in 1979, he became a founding member of the material commission of the World Rowing Association (FISA), in which the material was checked and a set of rules developed under professional guidance; from 1990 to 2000 he was its chairman. The self-draining boat shapes developed by Filter have been in production since 2005.

In 2002 and 2015, Filter was recognized by FISA with the World Rowing Award in the Distinguished Services to Rowing category . Among other things for his services to have promoted rowing beyond the borders of America , Europe and Australia : When the International Olympic Committee (IOC) complained in the 1980s that rowing was not universal enough, the FISA decided, to promote the sport in those countries in which there was little or no rowing. In this context, Filter drove across Europe to collect discarded rowing boats . The boats, which were restored themselves or as part of boat maintenance courses, were then made available to countries in Africa , South America and Asia . When the boats were delivered, Filter held training courses on site.

Filter continues to give lectures regularly, all over the world. The technology he developed is now mainly implemented by the Chinese shipyard Flying Eagle Boat Company , which is located near Hangzhou . It also manufactures the boats for the North American racing boat supplier WinTech Racing .

Honors

  • 1972 and 1976: National Prize of the GDR , III. Class for science and technology, each in a collective
  • 2002 and 2015: World Rowing Award in the Distinguished Services to Rowing category (FISA World Rowing Award for remarkable services)
  • 2005: Plaque for special merits from the German Rowing Association

Web links

Commons : Klaus Filter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilfried Hoffmann: GDR championships in the men's lightweight double sculls. Overview of medal winners (1st to 3rd place). In: www.rrk-online.de. Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08, accessed on March 2, 2017 .
  2. ^ Anne Hutmacher: The development of women rowing in Germany . Cologne 2010 ( online [PDF; 2.8 MB ; accessed on April 28, 2017] dissertation).
  3. ↑ Wilfried Hoffmann: GDR championships in the lightweight one of the men. Overview of medal winners (1st to 3rd place). In: www.rrk-online.de. Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08, accessed on March 2, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Thomas Kowalski: Interview with Klaus Filter: "The Lord of the Rules" . In: rudersport - the official association magazine . December 2016, ISSN  0342-8281 , p. 45 .
  5. ↑ The story. The Pirsch shipyard in Tabbertstrasse. (PDF; 0.97 MB) In: www.ralf-handschuch.de. Retrieved March 3, 2017 .
  6. ↑ High state distinction awarded: National Prize of the GDR, III. Science and technology class . In: New Germany . tape 27 , no. 299 , October 28, 1972, p. 3 : “For excellent scientific achievements in rowing, which led to the fact that rowing in the GDR has been the world's best for several years, the collective: Dr. paed. Richard Buchmann; Graduate sports teacher Joachim Fehling; Ing.Klaus Filter; Graduate sports teacher Gisela Heiße; Dr. med. Helmut Pohlentz; Ing.Hans Reinicke; Dr. med. Karin stop "
  7. ^ National Prize of the GDR, III. Science and technology class . In: New Germany . tape 31 , no. 216 , September 10, 1976, pp. 4 : “For excellent scientific achievements to a collective of technicians: Dipl.-Ing. Kurt Debus, Ing.Klaus Filter, Ing.Jürgen Groß, Ing.Horst Münch, Ing.Horst Reinicke, Dr. Witolf Stange "
  8. ↑ Thomas Kowalski: Interview with Klaus Filter: "The Lord of the Rules" . In: rudersport - the official association magazine . December 2016, ISSN  0342-8281 , p. 47 .
  9. ^ World Rowing Awards: Distinguished Services to Rowing Award. In: www.worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, accessed on March 1, 2017 (English).
  10. ↑ Thomas Kowalski: Interview with Klaus Filter: "The Lord of the Rules" . In: rudersport - the official association magazine . December 2016, ISSN  0342-8281 , p. 48 f .
  11. ↑ Wintech Racing: Klaus Filter. In: www.oarsport.de. Oarsport GmbH, accessed on March 1, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Plaque for special merits. In: www.rudern.de. German Rowing Association, accessed April 27, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Filter, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing rowers, boat builders and boat developers
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin