Paul Dienstbach

Paul Dienstbach ( born October 10, 1980 in Gießen) is a German rower.

He learned at the Giessen Rudergesellschaft 1877 rowing and quickly had its first successes. During his years in junior and U-23 range, he came runner-up in the eighth.

Paul Dienstbach won in 2000 the first of many German Champion titles in the coxless four and in the eighth and was appointed to the aft Germany, who lost the qualifying race for the Olympic Summer Games in Sydney scarce. In 2001, he joined the four without, won there for a silver medal at the World Rowing Championships in 2001 in Lucerne, the gold medal at the World Rowing Championships 2002 in Seville and drove there with his team ( with Bernd Heidicker, Philipp Stüer and Sebastian Thormann ), the then world record in the coxless four of 5:41,38 min, which by 2012 had stock.

In Milan, he was third in the 2003 World Rowing Championships. After his appointment to the Olympic team for Athens 2004 he fell ill shortly before the games and was dropped from the Olympic squad. In 2006 he ended his rowing career.

After studying law at the Ruhr- University Bochum, he worked for two years as a research assistant at the Chair of Business Law of Prof. Dr. Georg Borges and subsequently completed a graduate degree at King's College London, which he enjoyed with the Master of Laws ( LL completed. M. ). After the clerkship at the District Court of Hagen he presented in November 2011 from the second legal state examination and has been judge in February 2012 in the Hessian judicial service.

Paul Dienstbach is further engaged in rowing league. After a season with the Rhein -Ruhr Pred8Oars in Leverkusen, he rowed 2010-2012 Emscher for the RV bath - Eickelmann and since 2013 the team of Germania Frankfurt.