Heinz Plumanns

Heinz Plumanns ( born January 26, 1902 in Cologne, † January 11, 1986 in Bad Neuenahr ) was a German diver and a swimmer.

Heinz Plumanns was active in several water sports disciplines, as a swimmer, diver and water polo. His strongest discipline in swimming was the swimming side, where he once a new German record just missed. In 1929 he became German champion on the three- meter board as well as 1928, 1929 and 1930 in the tower jumping. As a German champion in diving and third in the German Championship in the Art, he started jumping at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam in springboard diving and finished eighth.

1932 opened Plumanns a printing company in the city of Cologne, which exists to this day. After 1945 he was one of the founders of the West German Swimming Federation; many years he was its chairman for 32 years and whose Spring warden. From 1953 to 1963 and from 1971 to 1973, he held this position in the German Swimming Federation. Since 1996, the swimming district gives the Middle Rhine Heinz- Plumanns Memorial plaque for " outstanding contributions to the sport of swimming ."