Kurt Moeschter

Kurt Moeschter and Bruno Müller as Olympic champions, 1928

Kurt Moeschter , also Kurt Möschter , (born March 28, 1903 , † June 26, 1959 ) was a German rower who became Olympic champion in two without a helmsman in 1928 .

Kurt Moeschter rowed for the Berlin rowing club Hellas . At the German rowing championships in Schwerin in 1927, he won the title in a pair without together with Bruno Müller . In the four without a helmsman , the two took third place together with Kurt Hielscher and Albert Lange. The following year, the Hellas Berlin teams won the championship title in both boat classes at the German Championship in Hanover. At the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 , Moeschter and Müller only started in two without a helmsman. In four rounds, the Germans competed against an opposing boat; they defeated the boats from France, the Netherlands, the United States and in the final the British boat and won gold in front of the British and the Americans. In 1929 Moeschter and Müller rowed their third championship title in two-man without.

Kurt Moeschter was a commercial employee. After the Second World War he worked as a rowing trainer in Hamburg.

literature

• Bodo Harenberg (ed.): The stars of the sport from A-Z . Darmstadt 1970
• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .

Web links

Commons : Kurt Moeschter  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kurt Moeschter in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• German champions in two without a helmsman
• German champions in four without a helmsman