Wolfgang Maennig
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Wolfgang Maennig is a competition rower
Rowing (sport)
Rowing is a sport in which athletes race against each other on rivers, on lakes or on the ocean, depending upon the type of race and the discipline. The boats are propelled by the reaction forces on the oar blades as they are pushed against the water...

 and Olympic champion for West Germany.

Maennig won a gold medal in coxed eights at the 1988 Summer Olympics
1988 Summer Olympics
The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were an all international multi-sport events celebrated from September 17 to October 2, 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. They were the second summer Olympic Games to be held in Asia and the first since the 1964 Summer Olympics...

 in Seoul
Seoul
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, as a member of the rowing team from West Germany.

Wolfgang Maennig is professor at the department of economics of Hamburg University. Beforehand he was professor at E.A.P. Paris-Oxford-Berlin-Madrid. He was a visiting professor at the American University in Dubai as well as the Federal University of Rio, at the Universities Stellenbosch and Istanbul, and at the University of Economics Bratislava. He was also visiting scholar at International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. and at Deutsche Bundesbank.

His research concentrates on regional economics, sport economics, and real estate economics and has been published in academic journals.

Wolfgang Maennig has worked as an expert for many bids of large sport events, e.g. the Olympic bids of Berlin 2000, Leipzig 2012, Munich 2018 and the Athletics World Cup Berlin 2009.
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