Paul Wiesner

Paul Wiesner
Nationality:	German Empire
Birthday:	October 9, 1855
Place of birth:	Berlin , Prussia
Date of death:	October 1, 1930
Society:	Berlin yacht club
Boat classes:	0.5 to 1 tons 1 to 2 tons
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Paris 1900 1.5 tons silver Paris 1900 Open class

Paul Wiesner (born October 9, 1855 , † October 1, 1930 in Berlin ) was a German regatta sailor who took part in the 1900 Olympic Games and took first and second place in two competitions.

Together with Viktor Hoesch, Paul Wiesner owned the yacht Cinderella , with which he also sailed himself. The home territory of the sailor from the Berlin Yacht Club was the Wannsee.

At the Olympic Games, Wiesner competed in Open Class with Ottokar Weise , Heinrich Peters and Georg Naue on May 20th, the Berliners took second place with their Cinderella, behind a British crew with the Scotia . On May 24th, Wiesner, Peters and Naue as well as Arthur Bloomfeld , as a substitute for the ailing sage, competed in the first competition in the boat class up to a tonne and won the regatta. During the reweighing, however, it turned out that the boat was too heavy at 1.041 t, so the boat was disqualified and the Scotia declared the victorious boat. Then the crew of the Cinderella, now again with Ottokar Weise, competed in the next race in the next higher boat class up to 1.5 t and won ahead of the Swiss yacht Lérina , which had won the first race in this boat class.

literature

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

Web links

• Paul Wiesner in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle I. p. 113, note 218
2. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle I. p. 113, note 223