Germany
Germany's first Olympic Champions were the ten-strong Gymnastics team lead by Fritz Hofmann who won the Parallel Bars Team event on the morning of 9 April 1896 at Athens.
145 German athletes have been Olympic Champion prior to WW2 winning a total of 73 Gold Medals. Germany was not invited to the 1920 and 1924 Games.
M/F |
Name |
Year |
Gold |
SPORT |
born |
died |
M |
Conrad Böcker |
1896 |
2 |
GYMNASTICS |
1870 |
|
M |
Alfred Flatow |
1896 |
3 |
GYMNASTICS |
3.10.1869 |
28.12.1942 |
M |
Gustav Flatow |
1896 |
2 |
GYMNASTICS |
7.1.1875 |
29.1.1945 |
M |
Georg Hilmar |
1896 |
2 |
GYMNASTICS |
1876 |
|
M |
Fritz Hofmann |
1896 |
2 |
GYMNASTICS |
19.6.1871 |
14.7.1927 |
M |
Fritz Manteuffel |
1896 |
2 |
GYMNASTICS |
11.1.1875 |
21.4.1941 |
M |
Karl Neukirch |
1896 |
2 |
GYMNASTICS |
3.11.1864 |
26.6.1941 |
M |
Richard Röstel |
1896 |
2 |
GYMNASTICS |
1872 |
|
M |
Gustav Schuft |
1896 |
2 |
GYMNASTICS |
16.6.1876 |
8.2.1948 |
M |
Carl Schuhmann |
1896 |
4 |
GYMNASTICS |
12.5.1869 |
20.3.1946 |
M |
Hermann Weingärtner |
1896 |
3 |
GYMNASTICS |
27.8.1864 |
22.12.1919 |
M |
Fritz Traun |
1896 |
1 |
TENNIS |
29.3.1876 |
11.7.1908 |
M |
Julius Frey |
1900 |
1 |
SWIMMING |
25.10.1881 |
28.8.1960 |
M |
Max Hainle |
1900 |
1 |
SWIMMING |
23.2.1882 |
19.4.1961 |
M |
Ernst Hoppenberg |
1900 |
2 |
SWIMMING |
26.7.1878 |
29.9.1937 |
M |
Max Schöne |
1900 |
1 |
SWIMMING |
20.1.1880 |
16.1.1961 |
M |
Herbert von Petersdorff |
1900 |
1 |
SWIMMING |
2.1.1882 |
1917 |
M |
Oscar Gossler |
1900 |
1 |
ROWING |
26.6.1875 |
15.2.1953 |
M |
Gustav Gossler |
1900 |
1 |
ROWING |
4.4.1879 |
4.4.1940 |
M |
Carl Gossler |
1900 |
1 |
ROWING |
17.4.1885 |
9.9.1914 |
M |
Walther Katzenstein |
1900 |
1 |
ROWING |
8.10.1878 |
9.8.1929 |
M |
Waldemar Tietgens |
1900 |
1 |
ROWING |
26.3.1879 |
28.7.1917 |
M |
Walter Brack |
1904 |
1 |
SWIMMING |
20.11.1880 |
19.7.1919 |
M |
Emil Rausch |
1904 |
2 |
SWIMMING |
11.9.1883 |
14.12.1954 |
M |
Georg Zacharias |
1904 |
1 |
SWIMMING |
14.6.1884 |
31.7.1953 |
M |
Arno Bieberstein |
1908 |
1 |
SWIMMING |
24.10.1884 |
18.5.1918 |
M |
Albert Zürner |
1908 |
1 |
Diving |
30.1.1890 |
18.7.1920 |
F |
Anna Hübler |
1908 |
1 |
FIGURE SKATING |
2.1.1885 |
5.7.1976 |
M |
Heinrich Burger |
1908 |
1 |
FIGURE SKATING |
31.5.1881 |
27.4.1942 |
F |
Dora Köring |
1912 |
1 |
TENNIS |
11.7.1880 |
13.2.1945 |
M |
Heinrich Schomburgk |
1912 |
1 |
TENNIS |
30.6.1885 |
29.3.1965 |
M |
Paul Günther |
1912 |
1 |
Diving |
24.10.1882 |
1945 |
M |
Walther Bathe |
1912 |
2 |
SWIMMING |
1.12.1892 |
21.9.1959 |
M |
Albert Arnheiter |
1912 |
1 |
ROWING |
20.7.1890 |
26.4.1945 |
M |
Otto Fickeisen |
1912 |
1 |
ROWING |
24.12.1879 |
15.12.1963 |
M |
Rudolf Fickeisen |
1912 |
1 |
ROWING |
15.5.1885 |
21.8.1943 |
M |
Otto Maier |
1912 |
1 |
ROWING |
23.12.1887 |
29.5.1957 |
M |
Hermann Wilker |
1912 |
1 |
ROWING |
24.7.1874 |
28.12.1941 |
M |
Josef Straßberger |
1928 |
1 |
WEIGHTLIFTING |
20.8.1894 |
10.10.1950 |
F |
Helene Mayer |
1928 |
1 |
FENCING |
20.12.1910 |
15.10.1953 |
F |
Lina Radke |
1928 |
1 |
TRACK & FIELD |
8.10.1903 |
14.2.1983 |
M |
Kurt Leucht |
1928 |
1 |
Wrestling - Greco-Roman |
13.3.1903 |
2.11.1974 |
F |
Hilde Schrader |
1928 |
1 |
SWIMMING |
4.1.1910 |
26.3.1966 |
M |
Kurt Moeschter |
1928 |
1 |
ROWING |
28.3.1903 |
26.6.1959 |
M |
Bruno Müller |
1928 |
1 |
ROWING |
11.10.1902 |
1975 |
M |
Hermann Linkenbach |
1928 |
1 |
EQUESTRIAN |
8.4.1889 |
30.6.1959 |
M |
Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Langen-Parow |
1928 |
2 |
EQUESTRIAN |
25.7.1887 |
2.8.1934 |
M |
Eugen Freiherr von Lotzbeck |
1928 |
1 |
EQUESTRIAN |
24.2.1882 |
22.5.1942 |
M |
Max Amann |
1928 |
1 |
Water Polo |
19.1.1905 |
1945 |
M |
Karl Bähre |
1928 |
1 |
Water Polo |
11.4.1899 |
14.1.1960 |
M |
Emil Benecke |
1928 |
1 |
Water Polo |
4.10.1898 |
12.8.1945 |
M |
Johann Blank |
1928 |
1 |
Water Polo |
17.4.1904 |
15.3.1893 |
M |
Otto Cordes |
1928 |
1 |
Water Polo |
31.8.1905 |
24.12.1970 |
M |
Fritz Gunst |
1928 |
1 |
Water Polo |
22.9.1908 |
9.11.1992 |
M |
Erich Rademacher |
1928 |
1 |
Water Polo |
9.6.1901 |
1.4.1979 |
M |
Joachim Rademacher |
1928 |
1 |
Water Polo |
20.6.1906 |
21.10.1970 |
M |
Rudolf Ismayr |
1932 |
1 |
WEIGHTLIFTING |
14.10.1908 |
|
M |
Jakob Brendel |
1932 |
1 |
Wrestling - Greco-Roman |
18.9.1907 |
13.2.1964 |
M |
Hans Eller |
1932 |
1 |
ROWING |
18.8.1912 |
23.1.1943 |
M |
Horst Hoeck |
1932 |
1 |
ROWING |
19.5.1904 |
12.4.1969 |
M |
Walter Meyer |
1932 |
1 |
ROWING |
14.9.1904 |
1949 |
M |
Carlheinz Neumann |
1932 |
1 |
ROWING |
27.11.1905 |
19.5.1983 |
M |
Joachim Spremberg |
1932 |
1 |
ROWING |
3.11.1908 |
|
F |
Christl Cranz |
1936 |
1 |
ALPINE SKIING |
1.7.1914 |
|
M |
Franz Pfnür |
1936 |
1 |
ALPINE SKIING |
21.11.1908 |
|
F |
Maxi Herber |
1936 |
1 |
FIGURE SKATING |
8.10.1920 |
|
M |
Ernst Baier |
1936 |
1 |
FIGURE SKATING |
27.9.1905 |
|
F |
Tilly Fleischer |
1936 |
1 |
TRACK & FIELD |
2.10.1911 |
|
M |
Hans Woellke |
1936 |
1 |
TRACK & FIELD |
18.2.1911 |
22.3.1943 |
M |
Karl Hein |
1936 |
1 |
TRACK & FIELD |
11.6.1908 |
10.7.1982 |
F |
Gisela Mauermayer |
1936 |
1 |
TRACK & FIELD |
24.11.1913 |
9.1.1995 |
M |
Josef Manger |
1936 |
1 |
WEIGHTLIFTING |
26.5.1913 |
13.3.1991 |
M |
Gerhard Stöck |
1936 |
1 |
TRACK & FIELD |
28.7.1911 |
29.3.1985 |
M |
Gotthardt Handrick |
1936 |
1 |
MODERN PENTATHLON |
25.10.1908 |
30.5.1978 |
M |
Ernst Krebs |
1936 |
1 |
CANOEING |
4.11.1906 |
20.7.1970 |
M |
Ludwig Landen |
1936 |
1 |
CANOEING |
6.11.1908 |
14.10.1985 |
M |
Paul Wevers |
1936 |
1 |
CANOEING |
21.7.1907 |
6.3.1941 |
M |
Toni Merkens |
1936 |
1 |
CYCLING |
21.6.1912 |
20.6.1944 |
M |
Cornelius van Oyen |
1936 |
1 |
SHOOTING |
28.11.1886 |
19.1.1954 |
M |
Ernst Ihbe |
1936 |
1 |
CYCLING |
20.12.1913 |
1992 |
M |
Carl Lorenz |
1936 |
1 |
CYCLING |
17.11.1913 |
28.11.1993 |
M |
Peter Bischoff |
1936 |
1 |
YACHTING |
24.3.1904 |
1.7.1976 |
M |
Hans-Joachim Weise |
1936 |
1 |
YACHTING |
15.11.1912 |
|
M |
Franz Beckert |
1936 |
1 |
GYMNASTICS |
13.3.1907 |
7.9.1973 |
M |
Konrad Frey |
1936 |
3 |
GYMNASTICS |
24.4.1909 |
24.5.1975 |
M |
Alfred Schwarzmann |
1936 |
3 |
GYMNASTICS |
23.3.1912 |
14.3.2000 |
M |
Willi Stadel |
1936 |
1 |
GYMNASTICS |
9.7.1912 |
|
M |
Walter Steffens |
1936 |
1 |
GYMNASTICS |
26.12.1908 |
|
M |
Matthias Volz |
1936 |
1 |
GYMNASTICS |
4.5.1910 |
|
F |
Anita Bärwirth |
1936 |
1 |
GYMNASTICS |
30.8.1918 |
1994 |
F |
Erna Bürger |
1936 |
1 |
GYMNASTICS |
26.7.1909 |
26.6.1958 |
F |
Isolde Frölian |
1936 |
1 |
GYMNASTICS |
8.4.1908 |
26.10.1957 |
F |
Friedel Iby |
1936 |
1 |
GYMNASTICS |
6.4.1905 |
18.4.1960 |
F |
Trudi Meyer |
1936 |
1 |
GYMNASTICS |
13.7.1914 |
23.10.1999 |
F |
Paula Pöhlsen |
1936 |
1 |
GYMNASTICS |
11.9.1913 |
|
F |
Julie Schmitt |
1936 |
1 |
GYMNASTICS |
6.4.1913 |
|
F |
Käthe Sohnemann |
1936 |
1 |
GYMNASTICS |
6.5.1913 |
|
M |
Friedrich Gerhard |
1936 |
1 |
EQUESTRIAN |
24.7.1884 |
16.5.1950 |
M |
Heinz Pollay |
1936 |
2 |
EQUESTRIAN |
4.2.1908 |
14.3.1979 |
M |
Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski |
1936 |
1 |
EQUESTRIAN |
2.1.1899 |
19.9.1966 |
M |
Willi Bandholz |
1936 |
1 |
HANDBALL |
5.3.1913 |
24.8.1941 |
M |
Wilhelm Baumann |
1936 |
1 |
HANDBALL |
12.8.1912 |
14.3.1990 |
M |
Helmut Berthold |
1936 |
1 |
HANDBALL |
19.4.1911 |
|
M |
Helmut Braselmann |
1936 |
1 |
HANDBALL |
18.9.1911 |
23.1.1993 |
M |
Wilhelm Brinkmann |
1936 |
1 |
HANDBALL |
25.10.1910 |
12.2.1991 |
M |
Georg Dascher |
1936 |
1 |
HANDBALL |
27.6.1911 |
25.11.1944 |
M |
Kurt Dossin |
1936 |
1 |
HANDBALL |
28.3.1913 |
|
M |
Fritz Fromm |
1936 |
1 |
HANDBALL |
12.4.1913 |
|
M |
Hermann Hansen |
1936 |
1 |
HANDBALL |
31.10.1912 |
28.6.1944 |
M |
Erich Herrmann |
1936 |
1 |
HANDBALL |
31.5.1914 |
|
M |
Heinrich Keimig |
1936 |
1 |
HANDBALL |
12.6.1913 |
15.1.1966 |
M |
Hans Keiter |
1936 |
1 |
HANDBALL |
22.3.1910 |
|
M |
Alfred Klingler |
1936 |
1 |
HANDBALL |
25.10.1912 |
|
M |
Arthur Knautz |
1936 |
1 |
HANDBALL |
20.3.1911 |
6.8.1943 |
M |
Heinz Körvers |
1936 |
1 |
HANDBALL |
6.7.1915 |
29.12.1942 |
M |
Karl Kreutzberg |
1936 |
1 |
HANDBALL |
15.2.1912 |
13.8.1977 |
M |
Wilhelm Müller |
1936 |
1 |
HANDBALL |
5.12.1909 |
22.2.1984 |
M |
Günther Ortmann |
1936 |
1 |
HANDBALL |
30.11.1916 |
|
M |
Edgar Reinhardt |
1936 |
1 |
HANDBALL |
21.5.1914 |
11.1.1985 |
M |
Fritz Spengler |
1936 |
1 |
HANDBALL |
6.9.1908 |
|
M |
Rudolf Stahl |
1936 |
1 |
HANDBALL |
11.2.1912 |
|
M |
Hans Theilig |
1936 |
1 |
HANDBALL |
12.8.1914 |
6.10.1976 |
M |
Herbert Adamski |
1936 |
1 |
ROWING |
30.4.1910 |
11.8.1941 |
M |
Dieter Arend |
1936 |
1 |
ROWING |
14.8.1914 |
|
M |
Fritz Bauer |
1936 |
1 |
ROWING |
23.6.1906 |
|
M |
Rudolf Eckstein |
1936 |
1 |
ROWING |
1.1.1915 |
|
M |
Willi Eichhorn |
1936 |
1 |
ROWING |
23.8.1908 |
|
M |
Ernst Gaber |
1936 |
1 |
ROWING |
6.6.1907 |
13.8.1975 |
M |
Gerhard Gustmann |
1936 |
1 |
ROWING |
13.8.1910 |
|
M |
Martin Karl |
1936 |
1 |
ROWING |
3.6.1911 |
1.3.1942 |
M |
Hans Maier |
1936 |
1 |
ROWING |
13.6.1908 |
6.3.1943 |
M |
Wilhelm Menne |
1936 |
1 |
ROWING |
11.8.1910 |
27.3.1945 |
M |
Anton Rom |
1936 |
1 |
ROWING |
10.3.1909 |
|
M |
Gustav Schäfer |
1936 |
1 |
ROWING |
22.9.1906 |
12.12.1991 |
M |
Paul Söllner |
1936 |
1 |
ROWING |
5.6.1911 |
|
M |
Hugo Strauß |
1936 |
1 |
ROWING |
25.6.1907 |
3.11.1941 |
M |
Walter Volle |
1936 |
1 |
ROWING |
18.9.1913 |
|
M |
Willi Kaiser |
1936 |
1 |
BOXING |
16.1.1912 |
24.7.1986 |
M |
Herbert Runge |
1936 |
1 |
BOXING |
23.1.1913 |
11.3.1986 |
M |
Heinz Brandt |
1936 |
1 |
EQUESTRIAN |
11.3.1907 |
22.7.1944 |
M |
Kurt Hasse |
1936 |
2 |
EQUESTRIAN |
7.2.1907 |
9.1.1944 |
M |
Rudolf Lippert |
1936 |
1 |
EQUESTRIAN |
29.10.1900 |
1.4.1945 |
M |
Ludwig Stubbendorff |
1936 |
2 |
EQUESTRIAN |
24.2.1906 |
17.7.1941 |
M |
Marten von Barnekow |
1936 |
1 |
EQUESTRIAN |
16.3.1900 |
29.1.1967 |
M |
Konrad Freiherr von Wangenheim |
1936 |
1 |
EQUESTRIAN |
20.8.1909 |
28.1.1953 |
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