The Tauzieher (German for "rope puller") is a limestone sculpture by Nikolaus Friedrich which was erected in 1911 in Rheinauhafen, Cologne.

It depicts a man making a heavy rope or hawser fast to a bollard and is 6.5 metres (21 feet) in height.

[1] A plan was devised to install a version of the work, about twice the size of the original, on an appropriate site in the city.

[7][8] A reporter wrote in the Kölnisches Tageblatt: "The Herculean naked man has climbed upon the bollard, which emerges at its base from unformed rock, and, leaning forwards, is hauling the rope up in order to secure it to it.

"[7]In the pose and the modelling of the naked and muscular upper body, the statue is reminiscent of the Belvedere Torso.