Walter Meyer

Walter Meyer ( born 14 September 1904 in Tangermünde, † December 5, 1949 in Special Camp No. 2 Buchenwald; Walther Meyer ) was a German rower, the 1932 Olympic champion in the four with coxswain.

Meyer came from the Tangermünder industrialist Meyer family ( family), which created the chocolate Feodora.

Rowing learned Meyer rowing club " Werder " in Magdeburg. Here he was able to celebrate with coxswain with victories in Dessau, Berlin and Hamburg, the first national success in 1923 in the junior quad. His first national title won Walter Meyer of Berlin Rowing Club in 1926 with the eighth. 1927 Meyer won the title in the coxless four and finished with the eight second place. 1930 Meyer took the coxless four second place in the German Championship. 1932 Eller reached with the four with coxswain the finals at the Olympic Games in 1932. 's Occupation Hans Eller, Horst Hoeck, Walter Meyer, Joachim Spremberg and helmsman Carl Heinz Neumann, the boat won by a narrow margin against the Italian boat.

The trained merchant Meyer joined the NSDAP in 1933 and became director of the sugar factory in Tangermünde. In 1945, he was interned in the Special Camp No. 2 in Buchenwald. There, Meyer died on 5 December 1949 Knochentuberkolose.