Walter Meyer (rower)

Junior foursome of the RC “Werder” Magdeburg 1923 in Berlin-Grünau. The so-called "Hoffmann" four with G. Schultz, G. Dankworth, Walter Meyer, G. Hoffmann and Stm. Werner Fischer (from right to left)

Walter Meyer (born September 14, 1904 in Tangermünde ; † December 5, 1949 in special camp No. 2 Buchenwald ; also Walther Meyer ) was a German rower who became Olympic champion in a four-man with helmsman in 1932 .

Meyer came from the Tangermünder industrial family Meyer (family) , which produced the chocolate Feodora .

Meyer learned to row at the “Werder” rowing club in Magdeburg . In 1923 he was able to celebrate his first national successes in a junior foursome with helmsman with victories in Dessau , Berlin and Hamburg . Walter Meyer from the Berlin Rowing Club won his first German championship title in 1926 with the eighth . In 1927 Meyer won the title in the four without a helmsman and finished second with the eighth. In 1930 Meyer took second place in the German championship with the four-man without a helmsman. In 1932 Eller reached the final of the 1932 Olympic Games with the four-man with helmsman . In the line-up of Hans Eller , Horst Hoeck , Walter Meyer, Joachim Spremberg and helmsman Carlheinz Neumann , the boat won by a narrow margin over the Italian boat.

The trained businessman Meyer joined the NSDAP in 1933 and became director of the sugar factory in Tangermünde. In 1945 he was interned in special camp No. 2 in Buchenwald . Meyer died there on December 5, 1949 of bone tuberculosis.

literature

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

Web links

Walter Meyer in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Chronicle of the rowing association Alt-Werder Magdeburg 1925–1935
↑ German championships eighth
^ German championships foursome without a helmsman
↑ Book of the Dead of the Buchenwald Special Camp, p. 91 (under the misspelling Meier )
↑ Volker Kluge, page 773, note 279

personal data
SURNAME	Meyer, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Meyer, Walther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Olympic champion in rowing
DATE OF BIRTH	September 14, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tangermünde
DATE OF DEATH	December 5, 1949
Place of death	Special camp No. 2 Buchenwald

[1] Chronicle of the rowing association Alt-Werder Magdeburg 1925–1935

[2] German championships eighth

[3] German championships foursome without a helmsman

[4] Book of the Dead of the Buchenwald Special Camp, p. 91 (under the misspelling Meier )

[5] Volker Kluge, page 773, note 279