Hans Woellke
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Born | 18 February 1911 Bischofsburg, German Empire | ||||||||||||||||
Died | 22 March 1943 (aged 32) near Khatyn, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Weight | 105 kg (231 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Shot put | ||||||||||||||||
Club | PSV Berlin | ||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 16.60 m (1936) | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Hans-Otto Woellke (18 February 1911 – 22 March 1943) was a German shot putter, who won a gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal at the 1938 European Championships.
Woellke served with the Order Police. During World War II, he was a captain in the Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 attached to a regiment in the Waffen-SS. He was killed by partisans on 22 March 1943 near Khatyn village, after which a retaliatory mass killing of civilians took place by Schutzmannschaft and Waffen-SS soldiers.
- 1911 births
- 1943 deaths
- People from Biskupiec
- People from East Prussia
- German male shot putters
- Olympic gold medalists for Germany
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Germany
- German military personnel killed in World War II
- Sportspeople from Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists in athletics (track and field)
- SS-Hauptsturmführer
- Deaths by firearm in the Soviet Union
- Deaths by firearm in Belarus
- Reich Security Main Office personnel
- German athletics Olympic medalist stubs