Roland Baar

Roland Baar
nation	Germany
birthday	April 12, 1965
place of birth	Osterholz-Scharmbeck , Germany
date of death	June 23, 2018
Place of death	Velpke , Germany
size	196 cm
Weight	90 kg
job	Mechanical engineer university professor
Career
discipline	Oar oars
society	Hannoverscher Ruder-Club from 1880 RC Hansa 1898 Dortmund
National squad	since 1985
End of career	1996
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 1 × World Rowing Championship 5 × 0 × 0 × Match of the senior 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze Barcelona 1992 Eighth silver Atlanta 1996 Eighth  World championships gold Bled 1989 Eighth gold Tasmania 1990 Eighth gold Vienna 1991 Eighth gold Račice u Štětí 1993 Eighth gold Tampere 1995 Eighth Match of the senior silver Banyoles 1985 Foursome with a helmsman

Roland Baar (* 12. April 1965 in Osterholz-Scharmbeck ; † 23. June 2018 in Velpke ) was a German rowers and engineering - engineering .

Life

Baar was the batsman of the Germany eight from 1989 to 1996. He won the Olympic bronze in the eighth in 1992 and the Olympic silver in 1996. He was world champion in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993 and 1995. In 1998 he was awarded the international Thomas Keller medal " for an outstanding career in rowing ”.

Roland Baar remained connected to the sport even after retiring from active competitive sport. He worked as an athlete representative in the athletes' commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and was an IOC member and a member of the NOK's presidium from 1999 to 2004 . Since 2005 he has worked on the IOC Commission for Sport and Environment. In 2008, he supported the ZDF moderation team as an expert at the Summer Olympics in Beijing. In 2012 he became the ombudsman of the National Anti-Doping Agency. For his services to sport in Lower Saxony , he was appointed to the gallery of honor of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History .

Roland Baar studied mechanical engineering and was awarded a Dr.-Ing. In 1996 with a thesis on investigations into the acceleration processes of particles in nozzles and jets at the Leibniz University of Hanover . PhD. He then worked in the automotive industry - initially at Volkswagen and since the end of 2006 at Voith AG , where he built up the business area for turbochargers and their research and development.

From 2001 to 2011 he was a lecturer at the Leibniz University in Hanover. At the beginning of 2009 he was appointed honorary professor there. In July 2011 he was appointed professor for the field of internal combustion engines at the TU Berlin .

Baar was an honorary member of the Hanoverian Rowing Club from 1880 and of the Osterholz-Scharmbeck rowing club from 1901 .

Roland Baar had been married since 1990. He lived with his wife Kathrin in Gifhorn and had two children. He died on June 23, 2018 in a car accident in Velpke .

Web links

• Roland Baar in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Roland Baar at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary. Department of Vehicle Drives TU Berlin, June 26, 2018, accessed on June 26, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Olympia on TV: The 900-hour marathon. In: stern.de . August 7, 2008. Retrieved June 26, 2018 . 
3. ↑ INGenius: Prof. Dr. Roland Baar. Former world-class rower is chief developer for turbochargers at Voith AG. In: think-ing.de . Archived from the original on August 27, 2014 ; accessed on June 26, 2018 . 
4. ↑ In portrait. (pdf, 1.8 MB) In: internal 02 | 09 Information for Leibniz University Hannover. March 5, 2009, p. 2 , archived from the original on January 22, 2016 ; accessed on June 26, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Personnel. In: TU intern 7/2011 . July 14, 2011, accessed June 26, 2018 . 
6. ^ Mourning for Roland Baar: Schlagmann with principles. In: FAZ.NET . June 26, 2018, accessed June 26, 2018 . Olympic rower and ex-IOC member Baar died. In: welt.de . June 26, 2018, accessed June 26, 2018 .