Rower Josef Hasenöhrl won the silver medal in the single sculls at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He was only beaten in the semi-finals by Swiss sculler Ernst Rufli and in the final by German sculler Gustav Schäfer. The following year, Hasenöhrl won the Diamond Sculls at Henley.
Hasenöhrl won the Austrian national title in 1934 and a bronze medal at the 1935 European Championships. In 1937, he added a silver representing Austria and the following year, after the “Anschluss” of Austria to the Third Reich, won a gold medal representing Germany. Hasenöhr was later killed at the end of World War II in 1945 as a member of the German Wehrmacht in Luxembourg.
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