Peter Kremtz
Peter Kremtz (born April 26, 1940 in Meißen ; † February 23, 2014 ) is a former rower from the German Democratic Republic . In 1968 he won the silver medal in the four with helmsman at the Olympic Games .
Kremtz began rowing in 1956 at the BSG unit in Meißen . From 1958 to 1960 he was a member of ASK Vorwärts Rostock . In 1961 he moved to Dresden to study electrical engineering and joined the SC unit Dresden , where he trained under Hans Eckstein . As early as 1960 he took second place at the GDR championships with the Rostock eighth . He repeated this placement in 1962 with the Dresden eighth. Kremtz won his first GDR championship title in 1964 together with Roland Göhler in a two man without a helmsman . In 1966 Göhler and Kremtz won the rowing world championships in Bled.
In 1968 Kremtz won the GDR championship title in four with helmsman and eight. In the eighth sat Frank Forberger , Dieter Grahn , Peter Kremtz, Frank Rühle , Klaus Jacob , Manfred Gelpke , Dieter Schubert , Roland Göhler and helmsman Dieter Semetzky . From this boat, Hans Eckstein formed a four-man without a helmsman from Forberger, Grahn, Schubert and Rühle and a four-man with a helmsman from Jacob, Gelpke, Kremtz, Göhler and Semetzky for the 1968 Olympic Games . On the Xochimilco regatta course , the four-man won without gold, the four-man with brought silver behind the New Zealanders. For winning the silver medal, Kremtz was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze.
Kremtz married the European rowing champion Ingelore Bahls in 1967 . As a graduate engineer, he later worked at the Central Research Institute of Transport for the Deutsche Reichsbahn .
literature
- Volker Kluge : Lexicon athletes in the GDR. New life, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-355-01759-6 .
Web links
- Peter Kremtz in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- German success at rowing world championships
- GDR championships in the eighth
Individual evidence
- ^ Dresdner Ruder-Club 1902 - Nachrichten issue 1/2014. (PDF; 3.25 MB) Dresdner Ruder-Club 1902 , accessed on December 20, 2016 (“Farewell to Peter Kremtz” on p. 30).
- ↑ Neues Deutschland , November 9, 1968, p. 8
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kremtz, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Meissen |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 23, 2014 |