Otto L\u00f6rke made such an impression during his military service that he was appointed to Emperor Wilhelm II\u2019s personal guard with responsibility for training the imperial horses.<\/p>\n
In 1920 he set up a riding centre in Berlin that produced very successful horses. In 1936, he joined the cavalry riding school, where he trained the gold medalists Heinz Pollay and Kronos, and the silver pair, Friedrich Gerhard and Absinthe (Alois Podhajsky was third on Nero). During this period he also contributed to the development of Felix B\u00fcrkner\u2019s school quadrille.<\/p>\n
After the Second World War, L\u00f6rke was based at the farm of Clemens Freiherr von Nagel in North-Rhine Westphalia, where he continued to train both horse and rider. At the 1956 Olympics, of the German silver medal trio of female riders \u2013 Liselott Linsenhoff and Adular, Hannelore Weygand and Perkunos and Anneliese K\u00fcppers and Afrika – L\u00f6rke was the trainer of two, and his pupil, Willi Schultheis, trained the other.<\/p>\n
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