Paul Dienstbach

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Paul Dienstbach (born October 10, 1980 in Giessen ) is a former German rower .

He learned to row at the Giessen Rowing Society in 1877 and quickly had his first successes. During his years in the junior and U-23 division, he was runner-up in the eighth world championship .

In 2000 Paul Dienstbach won the first of many German championship titles in the four without a helmsman and in the eighth and was called up in the Germany eighth , which narrowly lost the qualifying race for the Olympic Summer Games in Sydney . In 2001 he switched to the four-man without, after winning a silver medal at the 2001 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne, the gold medal at the 2002 World Rowing Championships in Seville and drove with his team (with Bernd Heidicker , Philipp Stüer and Sebastian Thormann ) the former World best time in a foursome without a helmsman of 5: 41.38 min, which lasted until 2012.

In Milan he finished third at the 2003 World Rowing Championships . After being called to the Olympic team for Athens in 2004, he fell ill shortly before the Games and was removed from the Olympic squad. In 2006 he ended his active rowing career.

After studying law at the Ruhr University in Bochum , he worked for two years as a research assistant at Georg Borges ' chair for commercial law and then completed a graduate degree at King's College London , which he completed with a Master of Laws (LL. M.) completed. After his legal clerkship at the Hagen Regional Court , he passed the second state examination in November 2011 and has been a judge in the Hessian judicial service since February 2012.

Paul Dienstbach is still involved in the rowing Bundesliga . After a season at the Rhein-Ruhr-Pred8Oars in Leverkusen, he rowed for the rowing club Emscher Wanne-Eickel from 2010 to 2012 and since 2013 in the team of the Frankfurt rowing company Germania 1869 .

Paul Dienstbach has been married to the former rower Lenka Wech since May 17, 2014 .

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