Franz Johannsen

Franz Johannsen (* May 4, 1921, † 2006) was a German canoeist. He took part in the 1952 and 1956 Olympic games and won twice the fifth.

Career

In the one - Canadians Johannsen was in the 1950s, the strongest paddler of the Federal Republic of Germany with sixteen championship titles in ten years. At the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki Johannsen entered only on the 10,000 - meter course and finished in seventh place here. In Melbourne in 1956, he finished, starting for the entire German team, both over 1000 meters and 10,000 meters to fifth place. On both routes, the Romanian Leon Rotman won before canoeists from Hungary, the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. Already in 1953 and 1955 Johannsen had won each on two routes the title of West European Champion.

Johannsen won in 1949 with the team of Hamburger canoe clubs his first national title. By 1957, four more team title should be added, which belonged with Wilfried Soltau 1949 to 1954 and with Egon Drews 1954 and 1957, the dominant canoeists in a two - Canadians to the team.

German championship

• One - Canadians 1000 meters: 1950, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959
• One - Canadians 8000 meters: 1954
• One - Canadian 10,000 m: 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1959
• Team: 1949, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1957