Germany at the 1908 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	GER
Nocname:	German Olympic Sports Confederation
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1908
Flagcaption:	Flag of the German Empire
Website:
Location:	London
Competitors:	81 (79 men, 2 women)
Flagbearer:	Wilhelm Kaufmann
Rank:	5
Gold:	3
Silver:	5
Bronze:	5
Appearances:	auto
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games (1952) (1956–1964) (1968–1988) (1968–1988)

Germany competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom.

Medalists

Name	Sport	Event
	Diving	Men's 3 m springboard
, Anna Hübler	Figure skating	Pairs
	Swimming	Men's 100 m backstroke
, Hans Eicke, Arthur Hoffmann, Otto Trieloff	Athletics	Men's medley relay
, Rudolf Katzer, Hermann Martens, Karl Neumer	Cycling	Men's team pursuit
	Diving	Men's 3 m springboard
	Figure skating	Ladies' singles
	Tennis	Men's singles
	Athletics	Men's 800 m
	Cycling	Men's 660 yd
	Diving	Men's 3 m springboard
	Rowing	Men's single sculls
, Martin Stahnke	Rowing	Men's coxless pair

Results by event

Athletics

See main article: article and Athletics at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Germany's best athletics result was a silver medal in the medley relay.

Event	Place	Athlete	Heats	Semifinals	Final

	Heats		11.4 seconds 2nd, heat 17	Did not advance
		11.4 seconds 3rd, heat 3
		11.6 seconds 3rd, heat 7
		11.8 seconds 3rd, heat 8
		12.0 seconds 3rd, heat 15
		12.0 seconds 5th, heat 14
—		Did not finish —, heat 10

	Heats	Arthur Hoffmann	Unknown 2nd, heat 13	Did not advance

	Heats		Unknown 2nd, heat 14	Did not advance

	3rd		None held	1:58.0 1st, semifinal 7	1:55.2
Semi- finalist		Unknown 2nd, semifinal 6	Did not advance
Semi- finalist		Unknown 4th, semifinal 5

	Semi- finalist	Andreas Breynck	None held	Unknown 2nd, semifinal 6	Did not advance
Hanns Braun		Unknown 3rd, semifinal 8
		Unknown 7th, semifinal 2

	bgcolor=silver	2nd	Arthur Hoffmann Hans Eicke Otto Trieloff Hanns Braun	bgcolor=lightgray	None held	3:43.2 1st, semifinal 2	3:32.4

	Semi- finalist		bgcolor=lightgray	None held	Unknown 5th, semifinal 3	bgcolor=lightgray	Did not advance

	—		None held	Did not finish
		Did not start
Paul Nettelbeck		Did not start

	Semi- finalist		None held	16:38.0 4th, semifinal 1	Did not advance
	Semi- finalist	17:33.8 6th, semifinal 3

	Semi- finalist	Paul Gunia	bgcolor=lightgray	None held	1:26:09.4 7th, semifinal 1	bgcolor=lightgray	Did not advance

Event	Place	Athlete	Height/ Distance

	6th		6.77 metres
15th	Arthur Hoffmann	6.50 metres
21-32	Hermann von Bonninghausen	Unknown
21-32		6.05 metres

	8th		1.42 metres
17th	Ludwig Uetwiller	1.32 metres

	8-25	Arthur Mallwitz	Unknown

	11th		37.02 metres
12-42	Ludwig Uetwiller	Unknown

	10-19	Ludwig Uetwiller	Unknown

	8-16	Carl Bechler	Unknown

	10-33	Ludwig Uetwiller	Unknown
Emil Welz	10-33	Unknown

Cycling

See main article: article and Cycling at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Germany's best cycling result was the silver medal won in the team pursuit event.

Event	Place	Cyclist	Heats	Semifinals	Final

	3rd		54.2 seconds 1st, heat 11	1:05.6 1st, semifinal 4	Unknown
Heats		Unknown 2nd, heat 3	Did not advance
		Unknown 2nd, heat 7
		Unknown 3rd, heat 10
		Unknown 3rd, heat 13

	Semi- finalist	Hermann Martens	None held	Unknown 2nd, semifinal 3	Did not advance
Karl Neumer		Unknown 2nd, semifinal 5
Bruno Götze		Unknown 4th, semifinal 3
Richard Katzer		Unknown 4-7, semifinal 7
		Unknown 4-9, semifinal 5

	Semi- finalist	Hermann Martens	None held	33:21.2 2nd, semifinal 1	Did not advance
		Unknown 5th, semifinal 3
		Unknown 6-7, semifinal 4
Richard Katzer		Unknown 7-8, semifinal 1
Paul Schulze		Unknown 7-9, semifinal 2

	Semi- finalist	Alwin Boldt	None held	Unknown 7-14, semifinal 1	Did not advance
—	Richard Katzer	Did not finish —, semifinal 1
	Bruno Götze	Did not finish —, semifinal 2
	Hermann Martens	Did not finish —, semifinal 2
	Paul Schulze	Did not finish —, semifinal 2
	Max Triebsch	Did not finish —, semifinal 2

	Semi- finalist	Karl Neumer	1:33.2 1st, heat 7	Unknown 2nd, semifinal 1	bgcolor=lightgray	Did not advance
Heats	Paul Schulze	Unknown 3rd, heat 4	Did not advance
Heats	Bruno Götze	Unknown 3rd, heat 12
—	Hermann Martens	Time limit exceeded —, heat 6

	Semi- finalist		2:05.6 1st, heat 3	Unknown 3rd, semifinal 1	bgcolor=lightgray	Did not advance
Heats	Alwin Boldt Hermann Martens	Unknown 2nd, heat 1	Did not advance

	bgcolor=silver	2nd	Max Götze Richard Katzer Hermann Martens Karl Neumer	2:25.4 1st, heat 4	2:31.8 1st, semifinal 2	2:28.6

Diving

See main article: article and Diving at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Germany dominated the springboard diving in 1908, taking all three medals in the event (including a tie for third place with an American diver).

Event	Place	Diver	Preliminary groups	Semi- finals	Final

	10th		67.30 points 2nd, group 3	48.80 points 5th, semifinal 2	bgcolor=lightgray	Did not advance
22nd		54.50 points 5th, group 5	Did not advance

	bgcolor=gold	1st		83.60 points 1st, group 2	82.80 points 2nd, semifinal 2	85.50 points
bgcolor=silver	2nd		83.60 points 1st, group 3	83.00 points 1st, semifinal 1	85.30 points
3rd		81.30 points 1st, group 5	80.30 points 2nd, semifinal 1	80.80 points
5th	Fritz Nicolai	67.10 points 2nd, group 4	81.80 points 3rd, semifinal 2	Did not advance
8th	Heinz Freyschmidt	78.10 points 2nd, group 1	79.3 points 4th, semifinal 1

Fencing

See main article: article and Fencing at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Event	Place	Fencer	First round	Second round	Semi- final	Final

	First round		1-4 (4th in C)	Did not advance
		4-3 (4th in G)
		1-4 (4th in J)
		2-3 (4th in M)
		1-4 (5th in F)
		4-4 (5th in H)
		2-5 (6th in A)
		2-5 (6th in B)
		2-6 (6th in I)
		2-6 (7th in E)

	Second round	August Petri	2-2 (3rd in F)	2-2 (3rd in 7)	Did not advance
Emil Schön		4-2 (2nd in M)	1-3 (4th in 5)
Fritz Jack		3-2 (2nd in C)	1-3 (5th in 2)
First round	Julius Lichtenfels	2-2 (4th in D)	Did not advance
	Robert Krünert	2-3 (4th in H)
	Johannes Adam	1-3 (5th in B)
	Jakob Erkrath de Bary	1-4 (5th in G)
	Ernst Moldenhauer	1-4 (5th in K)
	Georg Stöhr	2-4 (6th in J)
	Albert Naumann	0-5 (6th in L

Event	Place	Fencers	Play-in match	First round	Semi- finals	Final	Repechage	Silver medal match

	6th	Jakob Erckrath de Bary Julius Lichtenfels August Petri Georg Stöhr	Bye	Lost to Great Britain 13-5 Out 6th place	Did not advance	Not relegated

	4th	Jakob Erckrath de Bary Fritz Jack Robert Krünert August Petri	bgcolor=lightgray	Not held	Lost to Hungary 9-0 Relegated to repechage	Did not advance	Lost to Italy 10-4 Out 4th place	bgcolor=lightgray	Did not advance

Figure skating

See main article: article and Figure skating at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Event	Place	Skater	Score

	bgcolor=silver	2nd		211.0

	bgcolor=gold	1st		11.2

Gymnastics

See main article: article and Gymnastics at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Gymnast	Event	Score	Rank
		273.5	4
	267	5
	246	12
	220	28
	212	33
	198.5	40
	198	41
	186.5	50
	181	52
	180.5	53
	156.75	65

Hockey

See main article: article and Field hockey at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Event	Place	Players	First round	Semifinals	Final	5th/6th

Men's hockey	5th		Lost vs. GBR Scotland 4-0	Did not advance	Won vs. France 1-0

Opponent nation	Wins	Losses	Percent
	1	0	1.000
	0	1	.000

Total	1	1	.500

Rowing

See main article: article and Rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Event	Place	Rowers	First round	Quarter- finals	Semi- finals	Final

	3rd		9.35 1st, heat 1	9.47 1st, quarterfinal 1	Did not finish —, semifinal 2	bgcolor=lightgray	Did not advance

	3rd		None held	Unknown 2nd, semifinal 2	bgcolor=lightgray	Did not advance

Shooting

Germany had one shooter compete in one event, placing last in the 49-man field.

Event	Place	Shooter	Score

	49th		12

Swimming

See main article: article and Swimming at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Event	Place	Swimmer	Heats	Semifinals	Final

	bgcolor=gold	1st		1:25.6 1st, heat 1	1:25.6 1st, semifinal 1	1:24.6
4th		1:27.4 1st, heat 7	1:28.2 1st, semifinal 1	Unknown
Semi- finalist		1:33.4 1st, heat 2	Unknown 3rd, semifinal 1	bgcolor=lightgray	Did not advance

	Semi- finalist		3:17.2 1st, heat 3	Unknown 3rd, semifinal 1	bgcolor=lightgray	Did not advance
Heats		3:18.0 2nd, heat 1	Did not advance

Tennis

See main article: article and Tennis at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Germany was the second-most successful nation in tennis in 1908, winning a silver medal in the men's singles to prevent Great Britain from sweeping the silver medals as well as the 6 gold medals.

Event	Place	Name	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarter- finals	Semi- finals	Final

	bgcolor=silver	2nd							Lost to Ritchie
9th		Bye			Did not advance
16th				Did not advance
16th		Bye	Lost to Germot
26th			Did not advance

	7th	Otto Froitzheim Heinrich Schomburgk	None held			Did not advance
11th	Oscar Kreuzer Friedrich Wilhelm Rahe		Did not advance

Opponent nation	Wins	Losses	Percent
	2	0	1.000
	0	1	.000
	3	3	.500
	1	1	.500

Total international	6	5	.545
Germany	2	2	.500

Total	8	7	.533

Wrestling

See main article: article and Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Event	Place	Wrestler	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarter- finals	Semi- finals	Final

	17th			Did not advance

Opponent nation	Wins	Losses	Percent
	0	1	.000

Total	0	1	.000

Sources

Book: Cook, Theodore Andrea . 1908 . The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report . British Olympic Association . London.
Web site: De Wael . Herman . 2001 . Top London 1908 Olympians . Herman's Full Olympians . 7 June 2006 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060712020925/http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/olymp/toplon08.html . 12 July 2006 .