Carl Goßler

Carl Goßler ( born April 17, 1885 † September 9, 1914 in France ) was a German rower who won the coxed four in 1900 the first German Olympic champion in rowing, together with his brothers Gustav and Oskar.

At the Olympic Games 1900 Olympic competitions were held in rowing on the Seine in Paris for the first time. The hamburgers and Germania Rowing Club presented a coxed four with Gustav Goßler, Oskar Goßler, Walther Katzenstein, Waldemar Tietgens and Carl Goßler as helmsman. In the heats on August 25, the four with coxswain first of its forward travel to qualify for the final.

There were protests on the qualification of the boats that had come behind the boat from Germania to the finish, which should be corrected on 26 August in an elimination race. It had not been informed, so that some boats were missing, including the four of Germania Hamburg all participants. This led to the decision to evaluate the result of the elimination race as the official final result and for the three boats that had missed this race to host another official finale on August 27. This compromise there for the Olympic Games in 1900, two official finals with official Olympic Champions, Olympics Second and Olympic bronze medalists.

For the second final on August 27, competed next to Hamburg's boat crews of Minerva Amsterdam and the Ludwig Ruderverein. The Hamburg won the race with more than a boat length ahead of the Amsterdam, which in turn reached the target just before the Ludwigshafenern. The victory of the hamburger was not only the first Olympic gold medal German rowers, but also the first victory of a German boat with a larger Regatta abroad at all.

Carl Goßler was at the time of his Olympic victory still a student. Unlike his two brothers, he was not a businessman, but a career officer. He fell at the beginning of the First World War.