Wilhelm Menne

Wilhelm " Willi" Menne ( born August 11, 1910 in Würzburg, † March 27, 1945 Trenčín ) was a German rower. In 1936 he became Olympic champion in the coxless four.

Menne won in 1933 his first German championship with the aft of the Würzburg Rowing Club from 1875. A year later Rudolf Eckstein, Anton Rome, Martin Karl and Wilhelm Menne changed in the coxless four and victorious after winning the German Championship also at the European Championships in Lucerne. Missing in 1935 Martín Charles, for him sat Ernst Gaber from Mannheim RV in the same boat. The four rowers won both the boat class four without and in the four with coxswain at the German Championship. Together with coxswain Johann Hauer path they also won at the European Championships in Berlin. 1936 Martin Karl returned back into the boat. Eckstein, Rome, Karl and Menne won at the Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936.

Menne was one and a half months before the end of World War II in Slovakia.