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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