Shooting
Eleven shooters represented Germany. It was the nation's third appearance in shooting. Germany won its first Olympic shooting medals with a silver in the individual trap (by Alfred Goeldel) and a bronze in the team clay pigeons.
| Shooter | Event | Final | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | ||
| Gerhard Bock | 50 m pistol | 395 | 44 |
| Alfred Goeldel | Trap | 94 | 2 ! |
| Horst Goeldel | 100 m deer, single shots | 27 | 24 |
| Trap | 86 | 12 | |
| Erich Graf von Bernstorff | Trap | 84 | 17 |
| Heinrich Hoffmann | 50 m pistol | 189 | 54 |
| Erland Koch | 100 m deer, single shots | 33 | 13 |
| 100 m deer, double shots | 47 | 17 | |
| Trap | 86 | 12 | |
| Hans Lüttich | Trap | 77 | 25 |
| Georg Meyer | 25 m rapid fire pistol | 207 | 39 |
| Albert Preuß | 100 m deer, single shots | 28 | 21 |
| 100 m deer, double shots | 47 | 17 | |
| Trap | 88 | 4 | |
| Franz von Zedlitz und Leipe | Trap | 88 | 4 |
| Gerhard Bock Heinrich Hoffmann Georg Meyer Bernhard Wandollek |
30 m team military pistol | 890 | 7 |
| Alfred Goeldel Horst Goeldel Erich Graf von Bernstorff Erland Koch Albert Preuß Franz von Zedlitz und Leipe |
Team clay pigeons | 510 | 3 ! |
Read more about this topic: Germany At The 1912 Summer Olympics
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“Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee,
The shooting stars attend thee;”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
“Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us survivors a great deal about daily living which is valuable to us now that it is, ethically at least, a question of cold weapons and hot words.”
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)