Karl-Heinrich Erich Moritz von Groddeck (19 July 1936 – 14 December 2011) was a German rower who won three Olympic medals for the United Team of Germany: a silver in the coxed pairs in 1956 and a gold and a silver in the eights in 1960 and 1964, respectively. He also won one world and five European titles in these two rowing events between 1956 and 1964 for West Germany. In 1964 he retired from competitions. Back in 1958, von Groddeck moved from Wiesbaden to Hamburg to work for Axel Springer AG as a journalist in the sports section of a newspaper. For many years he was reporting the history of German rowing.Rowohlts Bunte Liste, pp. 355 ff. Later he worked as a freelance journalist.

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1936 births 2011 deaths Olympic rowers for the United Team of Germany Rowers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the United Team of Germany Olympic silver medalists for the United Team of Germany Olympic medalists in rowing West German male rowers World Rowing Championships medalists for West Germany Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics People from Vorpommern-Greifswald European Rowing Championships medalists {{Germany-rowing-bio-stub