Erhard Mayke

Erhard Mayke (6 January 1896 - 13 April 1962)[1] was a German speed skater who competed at the 1928 Winter Olympics hosted in St moritz Switzerland.

He also competed in the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men in the same year 1928 hosted in Davos.

His Father studied garden design and started to work from Berlin it was preferential because of its more central location.

He loved horses, wounded in 1916 when he was 20, during the 1st world war nearly losing his left arm.

Always then having a hole in the left shoulder he worked after the war in a coffee roasting shop.