Germany at the 1936 Summer Olympics

Nazi Germany was the host nation and top medal recipient for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. 433 competitors, 389 men and 44 women, took part in 143 events in 22 sports.[1]

Germany at the
1936 Summer Olympics
IOC codeGER
NOCGerman Olympic Sports Confederation
Websitewww.dosb.de (in German, English, and French)
in Berlin
Competitors433 (389 men and 44 women) in 22 sports
Flag bearerHans Fritsch
Medals
Ranked 1st
Gold
33
Silver
26
Bronze
30
Total
89
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
  • 1896
  • 1900
  • 1904
  • 1908
  • 1912
  • 1920–1924
  • 1928
  • 1932
  • 1936
  • 1948
  • 1952
  • 1956–1988
  • 1992
  • 1996
  • 2000
  • 2004
  • 2008
  • 2012
  • 2016
  • 2020
Other related appearances
1906 Intercalated Games
 Saar (1952)
 United Team of Germany (1956–1964)
 East Germany (1968–1988)
 West Germany (1968–1988)

Medalists

Gold
  • Hans Woellke — Athletics, Men's Shot Put
  • Karl Hein — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw
  • Gerhard Stöck — Athletics, Men's Javelin Throw
  • Gisela Mauermayer — Athletics, Women's Discus Throw
  • Tilly Fleischer — Athletics, Women's Javelin Throw
  • Willi Kaiser — Boxing, Men's Flyweight
  • Herbert Runge — Boxing, Men's Heavyweight
  • Ernst Krebs — Canoeing, Men's K1 10,000m Kayak Singles
  • Ludwig Landen and Paul Wevers — Canoeing, Men's K2 10,000m Kayak Pairs
  • Toni Merkens — Cycling, Men's 1000m Sprint (Scratch)
  • Ernst Ihbe and Carl Lorenz — Cycling, Men's 2000m Tandem
  • Ludwig Stubbendorf — Equestrian, Three-Day Event Individual
  • Rolf Lippert, Ludwig Stubbendorf, and Konrad Freiherr von Wangenheim — Equestrian, Three-Day Event Team
  • Kurt Hasse — Equestrian, Jumping Individual
  • Heinz Brandt, Kurt Hasse, and Marten von Barnekow — Equestrian, Jumping Team
  • Heinz Pollay — Equestrian, Dressage Individual
  • Friedrich Gerhard, Heinz Pollay, and Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski — Equestrian, Dressage Team
  • Alfred Schwarzmann — Gymnastics, Men's All-Around Individual
  • Konrad Frey — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars
  • Alfred Schwarzmann — Gymnastics, Men's Long Horse Vault
  • Konrad Frey — Gymnastics, Men's Pommeled Horse
  • Franz Beckert, Konrad Frey, Alfred Schwarzmann, Willi Stadel, Walter Steffens, and Matthias Volz — Gymnastics, Men's Team Combined Exercises
  • Anita Bärwirth, Erna Bürger, Isolde Frölian, Friedl Iby, Trudi Meyer, Paula Pöhlsen, Julie Schmitt, and Käthe Sohnemann — Gymnastics, Women's Team Combined Exercises
  • Willy Bandholz, Wilhelm Baumann, Helmut Berthold, Helmut Braselmann, Wilhelm Brinkmann, Georg Dascher, Kurt Dossin, Fritz Fromm, Hermann Hansen, Erich Herrmann, Heinrich Keimig, Hans Keiter, Alfred Klingler, Arthur Knautz, Heinz Körvers, Karl Kreutzberg, Wilhelm Müller, Günther Ortmann, Edgar Reinhardt, Fritz Spengler, Rudolf Stahl, and Hans Theilig — Handball, Men's Team Competition
  • Gotthard Handrick — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Individual Competition
  • Gustav Schäfer — Rowing, Men's Single Sculls
  • Willi Eichhorn and Hugo Strauß — Rowing, Men's Coxless Pairs
  • Herbert Adamski, Dieter Arend and Gerhard Gustmann — Rowing, Men's Coxed Pairs
  • Rudolf Eckstein, Martin Karl, Willi Menne, and Toni Rom — Rowing, Men's Coxless Fours
  • Fritz Bauer, Ernst Gaber, Hans Maier, Paul Söllner, and Walter Volle — Rowing, Men's Coxed Fours
  • Peter Bischoff and Hans-Joachim Weise — Sailing, Men's Star
  • Cornelius van Oyen — Shooting, Men's Rapid-Fire Pistol
  • Josef Manger — Weightlifting, Men's Heavyweight

Silver
  • Lutz Long — Athletics, Men's Long Jump
  • Erwin Blask — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw
  • Anni Steuer — Athletics, Women's 80m Hurdles
  • Luise Krüger — Athletics, Women's Javelin Throw
  • Michael Murach — Boxing, Men's Welterweight
  • Richard Vogt — Boxing, Men's Light Heavyweight
  • Helmut Cämmerer — Canoeing, Men's K1 1000m Kayak Singles
  • Fritz Bondroit and Ewald Tilker — Canoeing, Men's K2 1000m Kayak Pairs
  • Erich Hanisch and Willi Horn — Canoeing, Men's F2 10,000m Folding Kayak Pairs
  • Friedrich Gerhard — Equestrian, Dressage Individual
  • Helene Mayer — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual
  • Konrad Frey — Gymnastics, Men's Horizontal Bar
  • Hermann auf der Heide, Ludwig Beisiegel, Erich Cuntz, Karl Dröse, Alfred Gerdes, Werner Hamel, Harald Huffmann, Erwin Keller, Herbert Kemmer, Werner Kubitzki, Paul Mehlitz, Carl Menke, Fritz Messner, Detlef Okrent, Heinrich Peter, Heinz Raack, Carl Ruck, Hans Scherbart, Heinz Schmalix, Tito Warnholtz, Kurt Weiß, and Erich Zander — Field Hockey, Men's Team Competition
  • Willi Kaidel and Joachim Pirsch — Rowing, Men's Double Sculls
  • Werner Krogmann — Sailing, Men's Monotype Class
  • Heinz Hax — Shooting, Men's Rapid-Fire Pistol
  • Erich Krempel — Shooting, Men's Free Pistol
  • Erwin Sietas — Swimming, Men's 200m Breaststroke
  • Martha Genenger — Swimming, Women's 200m Breaststroke
  • Gisela Arendt, Ruth Halbsguth, Leni Lohmar, and Inge Schmitz — Swimming, Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay
  • Paul Klingenburg, Bernhard Baier, Fritz Gunst, Gustav Schürger, Josef Hauser, Alfred Kienzle, Hans Schulze, Helmuth Schwenn, Hans Schneider, Heinrich Krug and Fritz Stolze — Water Polo, Men's Team Competition
  • Rudolf Ismayr — Weightlifting, Men's Middleweight
  • Eugen Deutsch — Weightlifting, Men's Light Heavyweight
  • Fritz Schäfer — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Welterweight
  • Ludwig Schweickert — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight
  • Wolfgang Ehrl — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Lightweight

Bronze
  • Alfred Dompert — Athletics, Men's 3000m Steeplechase
  • Erich Borchmeyer, Erwin Gillmeister, Gerd Hornberger, and Wilhelm Leichum — Athletics, Men's 4 × 100 m Relay
  • Helmut Hamann, Rudolf Harbig, Harry Voigt, and Friedrich von Stülpnagel — Athletics, Men's 4 × 400 m Relay
  • Gerhard Stöck — Athletics, Men's Shot Put
  • Käthe Krauß — Athletics, Women's 100 metres
  • Elfriede Kaun — Athletics, Women's High Jump
  • Paula Mollenhauer — Athletics, Women's Discus Throw
  • Josef Miner — Boxing, Men's Featherweight
  • Xaver Hörmann — Canoeing, Men's F1 10,000m Folding Kayak Singles
  • Erich Koschik — Canoeing, Men's C1 1000m Canadian Singles
  • Rudolf Karsch — Cycling, Men's 1000m Time Trial
  • Hermann Stork — Diving, Men's Platform
  • Käthe Köhler — Diving, Women's Platform
  • Otto Adam, Erwin Casmir, Julius Eisenecker, August Heim, Siegried Lerdon, and Stefan Rosenbauer — Fencing, Men's Foil Team Competition
  • Erwin Casmir, Julius Eisenecker, Hans Esser, August Heim, Hans Jörger, and Richard Wahl — Fencing, Men's Sabre Team Competition
  • Konrad Frey — Gymnastics, Men's All-Around Individual
  • Alfred Schwarzmann — Gymnastics, Men's Horizontal Bar
  • Alfred Schwarzmann — Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars
  • Matthias Volz — Gymnastics, Men's Long Horse Vault
  • Matthias Volz — Gymnastics, Men's Rings
  • Konrad Frey — Gymnastics, Men's Floor Exercises
  • Hans-Joachim Hannemann, Heinz Kaufmann, Hans Kuschke, Werner Loeckle, Wilhelm Mahlow, Helmut Radach, Alfred Rieck, Herbert Schmidt, and Gerd Völs — Rowing, Men's Eights
  • Fritz Bischoff, Hans Howaldt, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Eduard Mohr, Felix Scheder-Bieschin, and Otto Wachs — Sailing, 8 Meter Class
  • Gisela Arendt — Swimming, Women's 100m Freestyle
  • Karl Jansen — Weightlifting, Men's Lightweight
  • Adolf Wagner — Weightlifting, Men's Middleweight
  • Jakob Brendel — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight
  • Kurt Hornfischer — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Heavyweight
  • Johannes Herbert — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Bantamweight
  • Erich Siebert — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light Heavyweight

Athletics

Basketball

Boxing

Canoeing

Cycling

Twelve cyclists, all men, represented Germany in 1936.

Individual road race
  • Fritz Scheller
  • Willi Meurer
  • Fritz Ruland
  • Emil Schöpflin
Team road race
  • Fritz Scheller
  • Willi Meurer
  • Fritz Ruland
  • Emil Schöpflin
Sprint
  • Toni Merkens
Time trial
  • Rudolf Karsch
Tandem
  • Ernst Ihbe
  • Carl Lorenz
Team pursuit
  • Erich Arndt
  • Heinz Hasselberg
  • Heiner Hoffmann
  • Karl Klöckner

Diving

Equestrian

Fencing

16 fencers, 13 men and 3 women, represented Germany in 1936.

Men's foil
  • Erwin Casmir
  • Julius Eisenecker
  • August Heim
Men's team foil
  • Siegfried Lerdon, August Heim, Julius Eisenecker, Erwin Casmir, Stefan Rosenbauer, Otto Adam
Men's épée
  • Siegfried Lerdon
  • Ernst Röthig
  • Otto Schröder
Men's team épée
  • Siegfried Lerdon, Sepp Uhlmann, Hans Esser, Eugen Geiwitz, Ernst Röthig, Otto Schröder
Men's sabre
  • Richard Wahl
  • August Heim
Men's team sabre
  • Richard Wahl, Julius Eisenecker, Erwin Casmir, August Heim, Hans Esser, Hans-Georg Jörger
Women's foil
  • Helene Mayer
  • Hedwig Haß
  • Olga Oelkers

Field hockey

Football

Gymnastics

Handball

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented Germany in 1936, with Gotthard Handrick winning gold.

  • Gotthard Handrick
  • Hermann Lemp
  • Herbert Bramfeld

Polo

Rowing

Germany had 26 rowers participate in seven out of seven rowing events in 1936.[2]

Men's single sculls
  • Gustav Schäfer
Men's double sculls
  • Willi Kaidel
  • Joachim Pirsch
Men's coxless pair
  • Willi Eichhorn
  • Hugo Strauß
Men's coxed pair
  • Gerhard Gustmann
  • Herbert Adamski
  • Dieter Arend (cox)
Men's coxless four
  • Rudolf Eckstein
  • Anton Rom
  • Martin Karl
  • Wilhelm Menne
Men's coxed four
  • Hans Maier
  • Walter Volle
  • Ernst Gaber
  • Paul Söllner
  • Fritz Bauer (cox)
Men's eight
  • Alfred Rieck
  • Helmut Radach
  • Hans Kuschke
  • Heinz Kaufmann
  • Gerd Völs
  • Werner Loeckle
  • Hans-Joachim Hannemann
  • Herbert Schmidt
  • Wilhelm Mahlow (cox)

Sailing

Shooting

Nine shooters represented Germany in 1936. In the 25 m pistol event Cornelius van Oyen won gold and Heinrich Hax won silver.

25 m rapid fire pistol
  • Cornelius van Oyen
  • Heinrich Hax
  • Georg Dern
50 m pistol
  • Erich Krempel
  • Paul Wehner
  • Emil Martin
50 m rifle, prone
  • Johann Schulz
  • Erich Hotopf
  • Arran Hoffmann

Swimming

Water polo

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Art competitions

References
  1. "Germany at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 13 November 2014. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
  2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Germany Rowing at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
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