Walter Volle

Walter Volle was a German rower and later rowing coach, born in Mannheim on 18 September 1913 and died in Berlin on 27 October 2002. He won the Olympic gold medal in the coxed four, rowing in the German crew at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. The same year that boat won the German championship, and he was German champion in the coxed eights in 1937 and 1938 and in the coxless fours in 1942 and 1947. After retiring from competition in 1958 he became head coach of the Berlin Rowing Club, whose athletes won eleven German titles, and he coached the coxed four that won gold at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.