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Jörg Woithe
Jörg Woithe (born 1963, East Berlin), East German freestyle swimmer for SC Dynamo Berlin; 1980 Olympic 100 m freestyle champion (50.40), 1982 world champion, 1987 European 50 m champion; later coach and lubricants executive.
Katrin Meißner
Katrin Meißner (born 1973, East Berlin), German swimmer; double 1988 Olympic relay gold medalist for East Germany and 50 m freestyle bronze medalist; also swam for reunified Germany at Sydney 2000; 2002 world record 4x100 m freestyle relay 3:36.00.
Klaus Steinbach
Klaus Steinbach, born 1953, West German freestyle swimmer, 1972 Olympic silver and 1976 bronze in relays, 1975 world champion, first under 50 s for 100 m freestyle short course, later NOK president 2002-2006 and orthopedic surgeon.
Kristin Otto
Kristin Otto is a German former swimmer who won six gold medals at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, a record for a woman at a single Games.
Kurt von Eckenbrecher
Kurt von Eckenbrecher (born 5 February 1917 in Neuruppin) was a German freestyle swimmer and SS sports officer who after the war edited Germany's first diving magazine, Delphin.
Lutz Unger
Lutz Unger (born 1951, Wernigerode) is a retired East German swimmer of SC Dynamo Berlin. Olympic silver (4x100 medley relay) and bronze (4x100 freestyle relay) at Munich 1972; 1970 world record 3:54.4 medley relay.
Manuela Stellmach
Manuela Stellmach (Stellmach-Schubert), born 1970 in East Berlin, East German and German freestyle swimmer; double 1988 Olympic relay champion, 1988 200 m freestyle bronze, 1992 relay bronze, multiple world-record relays.
Monika Seltmann
Monika Seltmann is a German former competitive swimmer who swam for SC Dynamo Berlin in East Germany and set a 1976 world record in the 4 × 100 m medley relay.
Nadja Bergknecht
Nadja Bergknecht is an East German swimmer with SC Chemie Halle who set a 1986 world record in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at Madrid, clocking 7:59.33.
Nils Rudolph
Nils Rudolph (born 1965, Rostock) is a German sprint freestyle and butterfly swimmer, 1991 European 50 m freestyle champion, short course world record holder in 50 m free (21.76) and 50 m fly (24.05), 1992 Olympian, once suspended by GDR officials for West contacts.
Otto Wille
Otto Wille, German freestyle swimmer from Gleiwitz; 1934 European 100 m freestyle bronze medalist and German champion, 1938 4x100 m relay world record holder; killed at the Eastern Front.
Paul Biedermann
Paul Biedermann, German swimmer (born 1986, Halle/Saale), 2009 world champion at 200 m and 400 m freestyle; his 1:42.00 200 m freestyle world record from Rome 2009 still stands.
Peter Nocke
Peter Nocke (born 1955, Langenberg) is a retired West German freestyle swimmer, Wasserfreunde Wuppertal; two Olympic bronzes at Montreal 1976, 1975 world champion 4x200 m freestyle relay, nine European titles.
Petra Dallmann
Petra Dallmann (born 1978, Freiburg im Breisgau), German freestyle swimmer; 2004 Olympic bronze in 4x200 m relay, 2001 world champion, five European titles, world-record relay legs; now a sport psychiatrist and co-founder of Athletes in Mind.
Rainer Henkel
Rainer Henkel (born 1964), West German freestyle swimmer, SV Rhenania Köln; 1986 world champion at 400 m and 1,500 m, 1987 European champion, Olympic relay silver 1984 and bronze 1988, 4x200 m relay world record 7:13.10.
Sabina Schulze
Sabina Schulze (Sabina Kessler), born 1972 in Leipzig, East German swimmer; 1988 Seoul Olympic 4x100 m freestyle relay gold as a heats swimmer, 1986 world champion and world record holder.
Sarina Hülsenbeck
Sarina Hülsenbeck (later Fischer), born 1962 in Rostock, East German swimmer with ASK Vorwärts Potsdam; 1980 Moscow Olympic gold and world record 3:42.71 anchoring the 4x100 m freestyle relay.
Stefan Gusgen
Stephan Güsgen (born 1962) is a German former swimmer who swam the 50 m freestyle for West Germany at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, placed 14th, won national titles in 1986 and 1988, and later became an orthopedic surgeon in Düsseldorf.
Sven Lodziewski
Sven Lodziewski (born 1965, Leipzig), East German then German freestyle swimmer; SC Dynamo Berlin; Olympic 4x200 m relay silver Seoul 1988, 1986 world relay champion, 1987 European 100 m champion, later federation head physician.
Thomas Fahrner
Thomas Fahrner (born 1963, Ludwigshafen) is a German freestyle swimmer who won silver and bronze at the 1984 Olympics, bronze at Seoul 1988, and set six 4x200 m freestyle relay world records for West Germany.
Udo Poser
Udo Poser (born 1947 in Hildburghausen) is a German swimmer for East Germany and ASK Vorwärts Rostock who swam heats on the 1972 Olympic 4x100 freestyle relay.
Uwe Daßler
Uwe Daßler (born 1967) is a German former swimmer for East Germany, 1988 Seoul Olympic champion in the 400 m freestyle at world record 3:46.95, with relay silver and 1500 m bronze; later a finance executive.
Werner Birr
Werner Birr, German freestyle swimmer of the late 1930s; 1938 European champion in the 4x200 m freestyle relay (9:17.6, London) and 1940 German 100 m freestyle champion for SV Berlin; held the 4x100 m freestyle relay world record (4:02.4, Copenhagen, 1938).
Werner Lampe
Werner Lampe (born 1952, Hannover), West German freestyle swimmer; 1972 Olympic bronze 200 m freestyle and silver 4x200 m relay, 1975 world relay champion, later DSV swimming director.
Werner Plath
Werner Plath (1918-1945), German freestyle swimmer of Wiking Berlin and Askania Berlin; 1936 Olympic 4x200m relay fifth, 1938 European relay gold and 400m silver, 4x100m relay world record holder; executed by the SS in 1945.