Hugo STRAUSS

Hugo Strauß won the gold medal at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games with Willi Eichhorn in the coxless pairs. In 1935 the two men finished second at the German Championships, and in 1936 they became national champions and qualified for the Olympic Games. Two years later the two men again finished second.

In 1938 Strauß was named president of the newly-founded Mannheimer Eis- und Rollschuhclub, which later was renamed to Mannheimer ERC and Adler Mannheim, and became one of the leading ice hockey clubs in (West) Germany. During the Nazi era Strauß was a member of the SS-Totenkopf-Standarte “Thuringia” and was killed-in-action on the Eastern front in 1941 in Russia.