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Key facts
- 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)
- Sport
- Athletics
- Event
- Shot put
- Club
- PSV Berlin
- Personal best
- 16.60 m (1936)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Hans
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- German Reich
- Place of birth
- Biskupiec
- Place of death
- Khatyn
- Occupation
- athletics competitor
- Languages spoken
- German
- Participant in
- 1936 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- athletics
- Country for sport
- German Reich
- Mass
- 105
- Conflict
- World War II
- Image
- Hans Woellke 1936.jpg
- Height
- 178
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- date of death
- 1943-03-22
- date of birth
- 1911-02-18
- Commons category
- Hans Woellke
- military casualty classification
- killed in action
- sports discipline competed in
- shot put
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Encyclopedic overview
Hans-Otto Woellke (18 February 1911 – 22 March 1943) was a Nazi German shot putter, who won a gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hans Woellke” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.