Wolfgang Hottenrott

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Wolfgang Hottenrott (born June 13, 1940 in Hanover ) is a former German rower . He won the Olympic gold medal in eighth place in 1968 .

Life

Wolfgang Hottenrott was born in 1940 and grew up on Vereinstrasse in the “Hindenburgviertel” in Hanover's Zoo district .

Hottenrott had his first major success in rowing when he started in 1964 with Michael Schwan in two without a helmsman . The two won the German championship title and came second at the following European rowing championships . At the Olympic Games in Tokyo, they won the bronze medal behind the boats from Canada and the Netherlands. In 1965 the two became German champions again. Together with Detlef Damboldt and Lutz Ulbricht , they also became champions in the four without a helmsman and took second place at the European Championship.

In 1966 Ulbricht and Schwan switched to the German eighth , Hottenrott was with the newly occupied four-man without German champion, but only finished fifth at the World Championships in Bled . In 1967 Hottenrott was German champion in the four without and in the eight. With the eighth he also became European champion.

In 1968 Hottenrott only sat in the Germany eight , which was supervised by Karl Adam . Horst Meyer , Dirk Schreyer , Rüdiger Henning , Wolfgang Hottenrott, Lutz Ulbricht, Egbert Hirschfelder , Jörg Siebert , Roland Boese and helmsman Gunther Tiersch became German champions together. At the Olympic Games, Roland Boese had to be replaced by Niko Ott due to illness and this line-up won gold in front of the Australians. The Germany eight was voted Team of the Year in 1968.

Wolfgang Hottenrott rowed mostly for the German Rowing Club from 1884 in Hanover, in two-man without he started with Michael Schwan for the Karlsruhe Rheinklub Alemannia .

After his career, the trained master for sanitary installation worked in his father's company in Leisewitzstrasse , which he later took over.

For his services to sport in Lower Saxony , Hottenrott was included in the Lower Saxony Sports Honor Gallery of the Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History. He also received the silver bay leaf on November 27, 1968 .

In 2012, Wolfgang Hottenrott lived on Kolbergstrasse in Hanover.

literature

  • Bodo Harenberg (editorial): The stars of the sport from A-Z . Darmstadt 1970
  • National Olympic Committee for Germany: Mexico 1968. Our team . Frankfurt am Main 1968

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e Barbara Schmidt-Vogt: Wolfgang Hottenrott , in this .: The zoo district in Hanover. The history of a district , Hanover: ev.-luth. Friedenskirche, 2012, p. 117
  2. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Vereinstraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 252
  3. ^ Sports report of the Federal Government of September 26, 1973 to the Bundestag - Printed matter 7/1040 - page 75
personal data
SURNAME Hottenrott, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rower and Olympic champion
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover