Walter Volle

Walter Volle (born September 18, 1913 in Mannheim ; † October 27, 2002 in Berlin ) was a rower (since 1933 with the Mannheim rowing club Amicitia ) and trainer ,

Life

Grave of Walter Volle in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

He won five German championship titles at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin together with Hans Maier , Ernst Gaber , Paul Söllner and helmsman Fritz Bauer gold in a four with helmsman . In the 1936/37 season, he and his Mannheim trainer Fritz Gwinner moved to the Berlin Rowing Club , with which he was European eighth champion in Milan in 1938 .

After finishing his own sporting career in 1958, he became the head coach of the Berlin Rowing Club. The athletes he supervised won eleven German championships in various boat classes at the first rowing world championships in Lucerne in 1962, the world championship in four-man with helmsman, in 1963 in Copenhagen in the same boat class, the European championship, and at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo , with the team: Peter Neusel , Bernhard Britting , Joachim Werner , Egbert Hirschfelder and helmsman Jürgen Oelke , also in a four with helmsman, the gold medal.

Walter Volle died in Berlin in October 2002 at the age of 89. His grave is in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (grave location: 6-F-30).

Honors

• 1985: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

• Ed .: Berliner Ruder Club: 100 Years of Berliner Ruder Club 1880–1980 ; Festschrift, self-published in Berlin 1980
• Ed .: Berliner Ruder Club: 125 years Berliner Ruder Club 1880–2005 ; Festschrift, self-published Berlin 2005

Web links

• Walter Volle in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 496.