Hendrik Reiher
Hendrik Reiher ( born January 25, 1962 in ironworks City ) is a retired German rower, who was represented from 1981 to 1992 in the German national teams.
Life
Since his enrollment in 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt Hendrik Reiher was active in sports. Initially, he trained as a gymnast at the training center of the ESR steel ironworks city. When this looming from 1970 initial success, he was delegated in 1972 as a gymnast on Sports Sciences, Frankfurt (Oder). From 1975 he continued his training continued at the Children's and Youth Sports School Potsdam.
Shortly after a successful sixth place in the final on the rings in the GDR Spartakiade 1977, he joined a year later due to injury from gymnastics for the sport of rowing in the SG Dynamo Potsdam. In 1982 he passed his Abitur. In the same year Hendrik Reiher began studying sports science at the German University of Physical Culture in Leipzig, where he graduated in 1989 with a diploma.
Formally he worked during his studies and then to 1991 as an employee of the regional office of the German People's Police. In recognition of his athletic performance Hendrik Reiher received in 1992, the Silver Laurel Leaf, the highest sports award in the Federal Republic of Germany, from the hands of the then Federal President Dr. Richard von Weizsäcker. In the GDR, he was in 1988 awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold. Since the turn he is, like many other athletes also worked for Deutsche Bank AG.
Hendrik Reiher is married for the second time, has a total of 3 children and lives with his family in Caputh.