Hartmut Schreiber

Hartmut Schreiber ( born January 28, 1944 in Wittlich ) is a former rower from the German Democratic Republic, who in 1972 won an Olympic bronze medal with the eighth.

Hartmut writer began as a cyclist, in 1962 he turned to the BSG unit Dessau rowing sport. After a second place in the East German youth championships 1963, he was delegated to the SC Dynamo Berlin, where he trained under Elmar Antony. For the 1968 Olympic Games Schreiber was nominated as substitute. In 1970 he won together with Manfred Schmorde and Reinhard tooth in the GDR championships in two with coxswain. Before the World Championships in Canada's St. Catharines replaced Klaus -Dieter Ludwig Reinhard tooth as helmsman, writer, Ludwig Schmorde and won the silver medal behind the Romanian boat. In 1971 Antony a new coxed four together: Harold Dimke as a hitter, Manfred Schneider, Manfred Schmorde, Hartmut writer and helmsman Dietmar Schwarz won not only in the GDR championships but also occupied at the European Championships in Copenhagen in second place behind the West German Bull foursome with Peter Berger on percussion.

1972 changed the entire four in the eighth, who raced in the Olympic Games at the Rowing Course in the occupation of Hans -Joachim Borzym, Jörg Landvoigt, Harold Dimke, Manfred Schneider, Hartmut Schreiber, Manfred Schmorde, Bernd Landvoigt, Heinrich Mederow and Dietmar Schwarz. The aft occupied in the run to third place behind the boats from the Soviet Union and from the Netherlands, but won his semi-final in front of the boats from the Soviet Union and the United States. In the final, won the New Zealanders, with six hundredths of a second behind the United States, the East German rowers erruderten the bronze medal.

Hartmut Schreiber is a trained toolmaker and studied political science, he headed the Berlin training center for swimmers and has been adopted after the fall of the Berlin criminal police.