Josef Hasenöhrl

Josef Hasenohrl (* May 5, 1916, † March 13, 1945 ) was an Austrian rowers, who in 1936 won the Olympic silver medal in One.

Hasenohrl started since 1930 for the rowing club ELLIDA in Vienna. 1934 won his first Hasenohrl Austrian Championship title. At the European Championships 1935 Pole Roger Verey won in front of the Swiss Eugen Studach, Hasenohrl received third place bronze medal.

At the Olympic Games in 1936 on the regatta course Berlin- Grunau Hasenohrl lost the lead the German Gustav Schäfer. Hasenohrl won his intermediate run, but finished in the semifinals only second behind the Swiss Ernst Rufli while Shepherd won the other semi-final against the Americans Daniel Barrow. In the final Hasenohrl took second place with four seconds behind Shepherd, but had his hand two seconds ahead of third-placed Barrow.

1937 found the rudder Eeuropameisterschaften place in Amsterdam, Studach won ahead Hasenohrl and Verey. The European Championships were held in 1938 after the annexation of Austria to Germany, Hasenohrl won in Milan as German ago Verey and Rufli and was the last European Champion before the Second World War.

When in 1947 the next European Championships was held, Hasenohrl was no longer alive. A trained chemist was a lieutenant of the German Wehrmacht in 1945 on the Western Front.