Rudolf Fickeisen

Rudolf Fickeisen medal table
rowing
Germany Germany
Olympic games
gold	1912 Stockholm	Rowing ( foursome with helmsman )

Rudolf Fickeisen (born May 15, 1885 in Trippstadt ; † July 22, 1944 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) was a German rower of the Ludwigshafen rowing club . At the Olympic Games in 1912 , he won a gold medal in a four with helmsman .

In 1906 a German championship in four-man without a helmsman was held for the first time . The boat of the Ludwigshafen rowing club with Jean Seeber, Rudolf Fickeisen, Hermann Wilker and Otto Fickeisen won the title and successfully defended it in 1907. In the next few years, Rudolf Fickeisen did not row in the Ludwigshafen foursome at German championships. He was not back until 1912 and, together with his older brother Otto, Wilker and Albert Arnheiter, took second place behind a foursome from Mainz.

At the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 Arnheiter, Wilker, the brothers Fickeisen and helmsman Otto Maier competed in a four with helmsman. They defeated the Swedish hosts' only boat in the first race, had no opponent in the quarter-finals and beat the Danish boat in the semifinals, with the German four-man even breaking the seven-minute limit. In the final, they defeated the British boat again with a time of less than seven minutes and thus won the gold medal in 1912 in the four-man with helmsman.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 , p. 346.

Web links

• Rudolf Fickeisen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• German championships in four without a helmsman

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ludwigshafen am Rhein death register, 1944, Volume 3, Entry No. 1124