Otto Fickeisen

Otto Fickeisen medal table
rowing
Germany Germany
Olympic Summer Games
bronze	1900 Paris	Rowing (foursome with helmsman)
gold	1912 Stockholm	Rowing (foursome with helmsman)

Otto Fickeisen (born December 24, 1879 in Ludwigshafen , † December 15, 1963 in Königsbach an der Weinstrasse ) was a German rower of the Ludwigshafen rowing club and Olympic champion.

He participated as an athlete for Germany in the Olympic Games in 1900 and 1912 in a four-man with a helmsman. When he first took part in Paris in 1900, he and his team won the bronze medal. Twelve years later at the Olympic Games in Stockholm he took part again together with his brother Rudolf Fickeisen , Hermann Wilker , Albert Arnheiter and helmsman Otto Maier and won the gold medal. This was also the first Olympic gold medal for the German rowing association.

literature

Karl Adolf Scherer : The reputation of Olympia - Rhineland-Palatinate athletes at the Games 1900 to 1996 . In: Sport inform. Excl. D . tape 28 , 1996 ( information online [accessed January 16, 2016]).

Web links

Otto Fickeisen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Death register Königsbach / Weinstraße, 1963, entry no.7

personal data
SURNAME	Fucking iron, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German rower
DATE OF BIRTH	December 24, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ludwigshafen , Rhineland-Palatinate
DATE OF DEATH	December 15, 1963
Place of death	Königsbach on the Wine Route

[1] Death register Königsbach / Weinstraße, 1963, entry no.7