Wilhelm Menne

Wilhelm "Willi" Menne (born August 11, 1910 in Würzburg , † March 27, 1945 in Trenčín ) was a German rower . In 1936 he became Olympic champion in the four-man without a helmsman .

Menne won his first German championship title in 1933 with the eighth of the Würzburg rowing club from 1875 . In the following year Rudolf Eckstein , Anton Rom , Martin Karl and Wilhelm Menne switched to the four-man without a helmsman and, after winning the German championship, also won the European championship in Lucerne. In 1935 Martin Karl was missing, Ernst Gaber from Mannheim RV was on the boat for him . The four rowers won both in the boat class four without and in the four with a helmsman at the German championship. Together with helmsman Johann Pfadenhauer they also won the European Championships in Berlin. In 1936 Martin Karl returned to the boat. Eckstein, Rom, Karl and Menne also won the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin and on this occasion also received the city of Würzburg's golden city plaque.

Menne fell in Slovakia a month and a half before the end of World War II.

literature

• Bodo Harenberg (ed.): The stars of the sport from A-Z . Darmstadt 1970
• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .

Web links

• Willi Menne in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• German successes at European championships

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Weidisch: Würzburg in the "Third Reich". In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , p. 1273, note 60.