Frank Schepke

Frank Schepke ( born April 5, 1935 in Königsberg ( Prussia) ) is a retired German rower and former NPD politician. He won his brother force Schepke 1960 Olympic gold in Rome in the eighth. Schepke is the initiator of Kannwas, a complementary currency for Schleswig- Holstein.

Schepke launched for the fraternity ATV Ditmarsia Kiel. In 1959, the eighth in the rowing community Ratzeburg RC and Ditmarsia Kiel became German champion. The crew Klaus Bittner, Karl -Heinz Hopp, Hans Lenk, Manfred Rulffs, Frank Schepke, power Schepke, Walter Schroeder and Karl- Heinrich von GRODDECK with coxswain Willi Padge won shortly thereafter at the European Championships in 1959. The media response to this victory of Germany rowing eight was enormous, the boat was voted team of the Year.

1960 won the eighth at the German Championships in front of the aft of Germania Dusseldorf 1904. Schepke The brothers also won the championship in the coxless four and in coxed four. To qualify for the all-German team against the boats from the GDR, the Düsseldorf Roller said in a quad and a quad without hitting, the aft of Ratzeburg and Kiel under coach Karl Adam qualified for the Olympic Games. At the Olympic regattas on Lake Albano won the eighth in his lead and won the final in a time of 5:57,18 minutes before the boat from Canada. Again, the nine athletes were honored as Team of the Year.

1961 came the Schepke brothers with Karl -Heinz Hopp and Klaus Bittner and helmsman Reiner Brümmer as four with coxswain. The boat of Ditmarsia Kiel won both at the German Championships as well as at the European Championships.

Later Frank Schepke worked as an entrepreneur in Bad Oldesloe. In 1999, he transferred the operation to his son Mark Schepke.

In the 1965 Bundestag elections Schepke was in the Bundestag constituency Stormarn - Duchy of Lauenburg candidate of the NPD and achieved 5.1% for his party. In 1969 he resigned from the NPD. In 2009, he joined in the general election as independent candidates ( Willi - way project) in the Bundestag constituency Plön - Neumünster and came to 0.7 % of the primary vote. In the general election in 2013, he ran there again and reached a vote share of 0.3 % ..

Schepke dealt with the free economy by Silvio Gesell and propagated since the strengthening of regional economic cycles in Schleswig -Holstein by the introduction of complementary currency Kannwas.