Egbert Hirschfelder

Egbert Hirschfelder ( born July 13, 1942 in Berlin) was a rower twice a member of the German Olympic team. At the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 1964, he won gold in the coxed four along with his former team - mate Peter Neusel, Bernhard Brit Ting, Joachim Werner, and helmsman Jürgen Oelke (all Berlin Rowing Club ). Training was at that time the team of Walter Volle, who had won in Berlin at the 1936 Summer Olympics as a rower also gold in the coxed four. Even won at the Olympic Summer Games in Mexico in 1968 Egbert Hirschfelder a gold medal, this time in but for the eighth and Ratzeburg Rowing Club. This Germany was eighth Trained at the time by Charles Adam and Hans Lenk.

The team of Germany rowing eight from 1968 has carried into the stadium for the opening of the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972, the Olympic flag. Egbert Hirschfelder has hoisted them.

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