Hendrik Reiher (born 25 January 1962 in

Eisenhüttenstadt Eisenhüttenstadt (literally "ironworks city" in German; , dsb, Pśibrjog) is a town in the Oder-Spree district of the state of Brandenburg, Germany, on the border with Poland. East Germany founded the city in 1950. It was known as Stalinstadt ( ...

) is a German

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. He competed for the

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Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo The Sportvereinigung Dynamo () (''Dynamo Sports Association'') was the sport association of the security agencies (Volkspolizei, Ministry for State Security, fire department and customs) of former East Germany. The association was founded on 27 ...

. He won medals at several

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as well as at international rowing competitions. He competed for East Germany until 1990, and from the 1991 rowing season for Germany after the

German reunification German reunification (german: link=no, Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a united and fully sovereign state, which took place between 2 May 1989 and 15 March 1991. The day of 3 October 1990 when the Ge ...

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* * 1962 births Living people Sportspeople from Eisenhüttenstadt People from Bezirk Frankfurt German male rowers East German male rowers Coxswains (rowing) Olympic rowers of Germany Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for East Germany Olympic silver medalists for Germany Olympic medalists in rowing World Rowing Championships medalists for East Germany Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in gold Recipients of the Silver Laurel Leaf {{Germany-rowing-Olympic-medalist-stub