Dirk Schreyer
Dirk Schreyer ( born July 28, 1944 in Lauenburg / Elbe ) is a retired German rower. He was Olympic champion in aft 1968.
The rowers from Ratzeburg Rowing Club belonged from 1965 to 1968 to Karl Adamin Ratzeburg trained aft, which was then then referred to by the press from 1966 as Germany aft, because the names of the clubs from which these racing community was formed, much too complicated, and in particular for the writing journalists from the obligatory space reasons was no longer reasonable. He came in 1965 in the boat in which five rowers sat, who had won the Olympic silver medal in the previous year. Schreyer took over the second position in the bow of the boat. In the occupation Meyer, Schreyer, Christian Prey, Klaus Behrens, Dagobert Thometschek, Jürgen Schröder, Hans -Jürgen Wallbrecht and batsman Klaus Aeffke this boat won with the helmsman Peter Niehusen out at the European Championships in Duisburg before the boats from the Soviet Union and the guest drivers the United States, whose boot five rowers from the boat sat Olympic champion from 1964.
Before the season 1966 almost the whole boat was reshuffled, the racing community Ratzeburg / Lübeck / keel was to an expanded racing community with rowers from Karlsruhe, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin. At the World Championships in Bled aft competed in this cast: Horst Meyer, Dirk Schreyer, Michael Swan, Ulrich Luhn, Peter Hertel, Rüdiger Henning, Lutz Ulbricht, Peter Kuhn and helmsman Peter Niehusen. This boat defended the world title in 1962 successfully with a win in front of the aft of the USSR and the GDR.
The European Championship 1967 was held in Vichy. The aft Germany started in the cast Horst Meyer, Dirk Schreyer, Rüdiger Henning, Ulrich Luhn, Wolfgang Hottenrott, Egbert Hirschfelder, Jörg Siebert, Roland Boese and helmsman Gunther Tiersch. This again strongly umbesetzte Roller won the European Championship against the Soviet Union and the guest drivers from the United States. It was the fourth European title in a row for the eighth Germany.
1968 sat returnees Lutz Ulbricht for Ulrich Luhn in Germany aft. Horst Meyer, Dirk Schreyer, Rüdiger Henning, Wolfgang Hottenrott, Lutz Ulbricht, Egbert Hirschfelder, Jörg Siebert, Roland Boese and helmsman Gunther Tiersch were common German champion, Schreyer's fourth title in a row. In the Olympics, Roland Boese had on the final day due to illness by Niko Ott to be replaced and this occupation then also won gold against the Australians. The Germany of eight was chosen by the sports journalists Team of the Year 1968.
After his career, the economics graduate was co-owner of an insurance company in Hamburg. Schreyer is a member of the rowing society Lauenburg, an honorary member of Ratzeburg Rowing Club and a member of the Hamburg and Germania Rowing Club. He was next to the award of the Silver Laurel leaf, the highest German sports award medal rank, honored in 2009 with the Golden Badge of Honour of the German Rowing Federation. Dirk Schreyer, who has learned to row in the Rudergesellschaft Lauenburg, was awarded after the Olympic gold medal for this performance of the city 's first " caller ".