Siegfried Brietzke

The DHfK four-man 1974 from left to right: Trainer Jörg Weissig, Brietzke, Decker , Mager , Semmler and in the front helmsman Lehmann

Siegfried Brietzke (born June 12, 1952 in Rostock ) is a former German rower . The Rostock rower achieved an outstanding performance: he won a gold medal at three consecutive Olympic Games, once in a two-man and twice in a four-man without a helmsman.

Stations

Brietzke came to rowing in 1967 after a television announcement and three years later (1970) he was together with Wolfgang Mager and helmsman Werner Lehmann junior world champion in two with helmsman . At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, he won gold in two without a helmsman. In 1974 he became a student at the German University of Physical Culture (DHfK). In 1974, 1975, 1977 and 1979 he became world champion in the four without a helmsman. In 1978 he became vice world champion in this discipline. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, he won gold in the four-man without a helmsman. At the following Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980, he again won gold in the foursome and then ended his active career. Until 1988 he worked as a trainer at SC DHfK Leipzig. From 1981 to 1990 he was a member of the Olympic Committee of the GDR and until 1993 a member of the BRD-NOK. After reunification , he initially worked as a right of way in Hamburg and Kassel, and later in Schwerin.

Brietzke received the GDR Patriotic Order of Merit in gold in 1976 and is the bearer of the gold medal of the GDR Patriotic Order of Merit . As it turned out after the fall of the Wall , many of his sporting achievements were achieved with doping . He was recruited by the Stasi and listed as IMS "Charlie". In contrast to the IM (unofficial employee), as IMS, he was additionally entrusted with the security of a social area or object, namely the control of competitive athletes with different thinking.

literature

• Volker Kluge : The great lexicon of GDR athletes. The 1000 most successful and popular athletes from the GDR, their successes and biographies. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-348-9 .

Web links

Commons : Siegfried Brietzke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Siegfried Brietzke in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Siegfried Brietzke at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ About the honor for the Olympic team of the GDR. Awarded high government awards. Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold. In: New Germany . ZEFYS newspaper portal of the Berlin State Library , September 10, 1976, p. 4 , accessed on April 10, 2018 (free registration required). 
2. ^ High government awards , Neues Deutschland , August 22, 1980, p. 3.
3. ↑ Perfect doping with the Stasi tagesschau.de, August 9, 2006 (interview with the sports historian Giselher Spitzer).