Hans Woellke

Hans-Otto Woellke was a Nazi German shot putter, who won a gold medal at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Biography

Woellke won the British AAA Championships title in the shot put event at the 1937 AAA Championships. He won a bronze medal at the 1938 European Championships.
Woellke served with the Order Police. During World War II, he was a captain in the Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 and served as a company commander. He was killed by partisans on 22 March 1943 near Khatyn village, after which a retaliatory mass killing of civilians took place, committed by the men from Woellke's company and a company of SS-Sonderbataillon Dirlewanger.