Siegfried Brietzke

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Full Name	Siegfried Brietzke
Date Of Birth	Jun 12, 1952(1952-06-12)
Age	72
Birthplace	Rostock
Country	Germany
Birth City	Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Horoscope	Gemini

Siegfried Brietzke Biography

Siegfried Brietzke is one of the most popular and richest Rower who was born on June 12, 1952 in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The birthplace of Brietzke is Rostock in the year 1952. Brietzke is married and has one son in 1974.

In 1974, at the East German national championships, Brietzke, Mager, Stefan Semmler along with Andreas Decker became champions in two boat classes, the coxless four as well as in the coxed 4 aided by the coxswain Matthias Sommer. They competed in the 1974 World Rowing Championships in Lucerne as a coxless four , and were awarded gold. Brietzke, Mager, Semmler and Decker took home the national event of coxless four each year from 1979 to 1979. The four were victorious at their first gold medal in the year 1975 at the World Rowing Championships in Nottingham and in 1976, the Summer Olympics in Montreal, the 1977 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam however they were defeated to second place by a team of The Soviet Union at the 1978 World Rowing Championships in Cambridge, New Zealand. They again won gold during the 1979 World Rowing Championships in Bled and also won an additional Olympic gold medal in 1980 in Moscow and Moscow, with Jurgen Thiele as their replacement Wolfgang Mager. Following their victory at the Moscow Olympics, Brietzke was the only person in the sport who was awarded with the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold with an honour clasp. the most prestigious sports prize of the GDR.

In the 1972 Summer Olympics, Brietzke and his teammate Mager took home an Olympic gold medal at the event coxless. Mager and Brietzke took home their first East German national championship in the coxless pair in 1973 but just a few weeks later , at the 2003 European Rowing Championships in Moscow they placed fourth in the class of this boat.

Siegfried Brietzke Net Worth

Siegfried Brietzke is one of the richest Rower from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Siegfried Brietzke 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Siegfried Brietzke (born 12 June 1952) is a German rower who played for East Germany in the 1972 Summer Olympics as well as during the 1976 Summer Olympics and at 1980’s Summer Olympics.

Brietzke took note of a television program that was shown at Christmas 1967, in which tall men were sought to be rowers and he enrolled in SC DHfK Leipzig in response. After only one year, he took home an Olympic gold medal together with cox Wolfgang Mager and cox Werner Lehmann at the 1970 World Rowing Junior Championships in Ioannina as a coxed pair. In the 2001 East German national championships, He finished third in the four-stroke coxless.

In 2013, it was revealed that Brietzke was a member of the Stasi, the state security service of the German Democratic Republic. Under the codename “Charlie”, his role was to control other athletes and report those with “deviant thinking”.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Siegfried Brietzke height 6 ft 4 in Siegfried weight 90 kg & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Siegfried Brietzke Dating?

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Facts & Trivia

Siegfried Ranked on the list of most popular Rower. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Siegfried Brietzke celebrates birthday on June 12 of every year.