Otto Maier (rower)

Otto Maier (born December 23, 1887 ; † May 29, 1957 ) was a German rower who became Olympic champion in a four-man team in 1912 .

Otto Maier from the Frankfurt rowing club from 1865 was one of two helmsmen who supported the four-man without helmsman of the Ludwigshafen rowing club at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm, because only the four-man with helmsman was advertised there. Albert Arnheiter , Rudolf Fickeisen , Hermann Wilker and Otto Fickeisen from Ludwigshafen and their guest helmsman defeated the only boat of the Swedish hosts in the first race, had no opponent in the quarter-finals and beat the Danish boat in the semifinals. In the semifinals, the German four had undercut the seven-minute limit, which also succeeded in the final against the British and was enough to win.

literature

Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .

Web links

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

Footnotes

↑ In all sources today it is assumed that Otto Maier was the helmsman who steered the Ludwigshafen foursome to the Olympic victory. As Volker Kluge explains on page 376f in his note 249, Karl Leister is named as the helmsman in the official report from 1912 and there is also a photo of the Ludwigshafen foursome with Karl Leister. It was only in the 1960s that Paul Elschner from the Hessian Rowing Association found out that Otto Maier was actually steering the boat. According to Volker Kluge, a detailed account of the case was published in 1973 in the obituary for Otto Fickeisen in the Rudersport newspaper.

personal data
SURNAME	Maier, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German rower
DATE OF BIRTH	December 23, 1887
DATE OF DEATH	May 29, 1957

[1] In all sources today it is assumed that Otto Maier was the helmsman who steered the Ludwigshafen foursome to the Olympic victory. As Volker Kluge explains on page 376f in his note 249, Karl Leister is named as the helmsman in the official report from 1912 and there is also a photo of the Ludwigshafen foursome with Karl Leister. It was only in the 1960s that Paul Elschner from the Hessian Rowing Association found out that Otto Maier was actually steering the boat. According to Volker Kluge, a detailed account of the case was published in 1973 in the obituary for Otto Fickeisen in the Rudersport newspaper.