Walther Katzenstein

This article deals with the rower Walther Katzenstein. For other people see Walter Katzenstein .

Walther Katzenstein
nation	German Empire
birthday	October 8, 1878
place of birth	Lisbon ,  Portugal
date of death	September 9, 1929
Place of death	Hamburg ,  FR Germany
Career
discipline	Eight , four with helmsman
society	Germania Rowing Club
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze 1900 Paris Foursome with a helmsman

Walther Katzenstein , also Walter Katzenstein, (born October 8, 1878 in Lisbon , † September 9, 1929 in Hamburg ) was a German rower who became the first German Olympic champion in rowing in 1900 with the four-man with a helmsman .

Career

At the Olympic Games in 1900 , the first Olympic rowing competitions were held on the Seine in Paris. The Hamburg and Germania Ruder Club had sent the crew to Paris for an eight . Some rowers from this eighth, namely Oskar Goßler , his brother Gustav Goßler as well as Walther Katzenstein and Waldemar Tietgens also competed in the four with a helmsman. In the preliminary heats on August 25, the eighth, in which Walther's brother Edgar Katzenstein also rowed, qualified for the finals as third in his preliminary heat and the four with helmsman as the first in his preliminary heat. The final in the eighth took place on August 26th. For the final, the Hamburg team had replaced their helmsman Alexander Gleichman von Oven with a younger and 45 pound lighter French helmsman, but could not deal with the different weight distribution in the boat and took fourth place.

In the foursome with helmsman there were protests against the qualification, which should be corrected on August 26th in an elimination race. Not all participants had been informed about this, so some boats were missing, including the four from Germania Hamburg. The decision was then made to count the result of the elimination race as the official final result and to organize another official final on August 27th for the three boats that had missed this race. This compromise means that there will be two official finals for the 1900 Olympic Games with official Olympic champions, Olympic champions and Olympic thirds.

In addition to the Hamburg boat, teams from Minerva Amsterdam and the Ludwigshafen rowing club competed in the second final on August 27th . The Hamburg team appointed another brother of Oskar and Gustav Goßler, 15-year-old Carl Goßler , as helmsman . The Hamburg team won the race by more than a boat length over the Amsterdam team, who in turn reached the finish just ahead of the Ludwigshafen team. The Hamburg victory was not only the first ever Olympic victory for German rowers, but also the first ever victory for a German boat in a major regatta abroad.

Walther Katzenstein, like all rowers in the four-man, was a businessman by trade.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .
• Karl Lennartz , Walter Teutenberg: II. Olympic Games 1900 in Paris. Presentation and sources. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1995, ISBN 3-928562-20-7 .

Web links

• Walther Katzenstein in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volker Kluge, page 112, note 214
2. ↑ Volker Kluge, page 111f, note 201
3. ↑ Lennartz and Teutenberg, page 103
4. ↑ Volker Kluge, page 112, note 204