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Frank Schepke

Frank Schepke

Personal information
Born	(1935-04-05)5 April 1935 Königsberg, Germany
Died	4 April 2017(2017-04-04) (aged 81) Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Height	198 cm (6 ft 6 in)[1]
Weight	95 kg (209 lb)[1]
Relatives	Kraft Schepke (brother)
Sport
Sport	Rowing
Club	ATV Ditmarsia Kiel[1]
Medal record Men's rowing Olympic Games Representing  Germany 1960 Rome Eight European Rowing Championships Representing  West Germany 1959 Mâcon Eight 1961 Prague Coxed four

Frank Schepke (5 April 1935 – 4 April 2017) was a German rower who competed for the United Team of Germany in the 1960 Summer Olympics.

He was born in Königsberg, Germany, in 1935. Kraft Schepke (1934–2023) was his brother.^[1]

At the 1959 European Rowing ChampionshipsinMâcon, he won a gold medal with the eight.^[2] At the 1960 Summer Olympics, he was a crew member of the German eight that won gold.^[1] At the 1961 European Rowing ChampionshipsinPrague, he won a gold medal with the coxed four.^[3] He was twice—in 1959 and in 1960—awarded the Silbernes Lorbeerblatt (Silver Laurel Leaf), the highest West German sports award.^[1][4]

Both he and his brother retired after the 1961 rowing season from competitive rowing.^[1] In the same year, he finished his PhD at the University of Kiel in agricultural sciences.^[4] He worked as a consultant for farmers, and later in life founded an industrial cleaning company. Aged 55, he fulfilled his lifelong dream of owning his own farm, and he produced biologically grown produce.^[4]

He stood in the 1965 West German federal election in the Stormarn – Herzogtum Lauenburg electorate for the National Democratic Party of Germany, a far-right and ultranationalist party founded the previous year. He left the party in 1969. At the 2009 and 2013 German federal elections, he stood as an independent in the Plön – Neumünster electorate.^[4] Schepke was the initiator in 2004 behind a regional currency KannWas for Schleswig-Holstein.^[5]

Schepke died on 4 April 2017 in Kiel.^[6]