Alfred Flatow

Alfred Flatow ( born October 3, 1869 in Gdansk, † December 28, 1942 in the Theresienstadt concentration camp ) was a German gymnast and Olympic champion.

I. The 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, he was one of ten gymnasts from Germany. He won the individual competition on bars and was second on the high bar. Also victorious, he was with the German team on parallel bars and high bar (among other things with his six- years-younger cousin Gustav Felix Flatow ). He also took part in the competitions in the horse jump, part of the Pommel Horse and rings. Like most other German Olympians in Gymnastics, he was expelled after his return from the German Gymnastics Association, which was then the competition idea rejected as " un-German ".

1903 Flatow was a founding member of the Jewish Turnerschaft, the first Jewish sports association in Europe. Because of the persecution by the Nazis in 1938, he emigrated to the Netherlands. After the German invasion, he was deported by the Nazis in the concentration camp Theresienstadt, where he perished in 1942.

1997 honored the city of Berlin Alfred Flatow and his cousin Gustav, renamed by the Reich Sports Field road near the Olympic Stadium in Flatowallee. On Lohmühleninsel on the Landwehr canal in the district of Kreuzberg also recalls the Flatow sports hall with their name and a plaque to the two Flatows. The German Post AG was the 100th anniversary of the Olympic Games is a series of four postage stamps; one of them shows Alfred and Gustav Flatow. Alfred Flatow was admitted in 1981 into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

On September 13, 2012, moved in front of his former home in Berlin- Schöneberg, Landshut 33, for him and his family stumbling blocks.