Rudolf Fickeisen

Rudolf Fickeisen ( born May 15, 1885 in Tripp city; † August 21, 1943 ) was a German rower of the Ludwigshafen Rowing Club. At the Olympic Games in 1912 he won the gold medal in the coxed four.

1906 for the first time a German Championship was held in the coxless four. The boat of the Ludwigshafen Rowing Club with Jean Seeber, Rudolf Fickeisen, Hermann Otto Fickeisen Wilker and won the title in 1907 and defended it successfully. In the coming years, Rudolf Fickeisen rowed not in the Ludwigshafen four at German Championships. It was not until 1912 he was back again, finishing with his older brother Otto, Wilker and Albert Arnheiter second place behind a foursome from Mainz.

At the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 Arnheiter, Wilker, the brothers competed Fickeisen and helmsman Otto Maier in the four with coxswain. They defeated in the first race the only boat of the Swedish hosts, had no opponent in the quarterfinals and beat in the semifinals of the Danish boat, the German foursome even undercutting the seven- minute mark. In the final they defeated the British boat again with a time less than seven minutes and thus won the gold medal in 1912 at four with coxswain.