{{Short description|German jockey}} thumb|Hein Bollow in 2011 '''Heinrich “Hein” Bollow''' (5 December 1920 in Nienstedten – 20 April 2020 in Cologne) was a German jockey who was one of the most successful German trainers in German horse racing.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ahrens |first=Peter |date=2020-04-21 |title=Nachruf auf Hein Bollow: Ein Jahrhundertleben |url=https://www.spiegel.de/sport/hein-bollow-nachruf-auf-galopp-legende-ein-jahrhundertleben-a-538ee1df-b14a-4499-8475-c2bdd6adb9ca |access-date=2025-10-05 |work=Der Spiegel |language=de |issn=2195-1349}}</ref>
== Biography == Bollow completed his apprenticeship with trainer Anton "Pan" Horalek in Hoppegarten near Berlin. During his active career from 1936 to 1963, he achieved 1,033 victories, including four in the Deutschen Derby with Allasch (1953), Kaliber (1954), Kilometer (1956), and Herero (1962). Bollow won the German Jockey Championship thirteen times. He lived in Cologne from 1947 onwards.
His active career as a trainer lasted from 1963 to 1988. He achieved 1,661 victories, including a Derby victory at the Hamburg-Horn racecourse with Marduk (1974). In 1965, he achieved the only trainer's championship in continuous competition against his former vocational school colleague, the legendary trainer Heinz Jentzsch. Bollow was the first person to achieve more than 1,000 victories in horse racing, both in the saddle and as a trainer. For this reason, he has often been called ''a legend of horse racing''.
He was a regular visitor to the Cologne-Weidenpesch racecourse at {{Interlanguage link|Weidenpescher Park|de}} until his final year. He ultimately lived in a retirement home near the racecourse.
Hein Bollow was admitted to hospital in mid-April 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Koopmann |first=Christoph |date=2020-04-21 |title=1034 Mal Erster |url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/sport/hein-bollow-nachruf-1.4883903 |access-date=2025-10-05 |website=Süddeutsche.de |language=de}}</ref> He died on the 20th of that month in Cologne at the age of 99 from the effects of a stroke.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2020-04-20 |author=Thomas Adam |date=2020-04-20 |title=Deutschlands Turf-Legende Hein Bollow mit 99 Jahren verstorben |url=https://galopponline.de/news/galopp-news/deutschlands-turf-legende-hein-bollow-99-jahren-verstorben |website=GaloppOnline}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --><br /><br />{{cite web|access-date=2020-04-20 |date=2020-04-20 |title=Ehemaliger Jockey und Trainer Hein Bollow gestorben |url=https://www.sueddeutsche.de/sport/pferdesport-ehemaliger-jockey-und-trainer-hein-bollow-gestorben-dpa.urn-newsml-dpa-com-20090101-200420-99-767098 |website=sueddeutsche.de}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
== Honours == * Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse (18 December 1975)
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== External links == * {{cite web|access-date=2020-04-20 |date=2019-12-31 |title=Club der 1.000 |url=https://www.krefelder-rennclub.de/rennclub/club-der-1000.html |website=krefelder-rennclub.de}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --> * {{cite web|access-date=2020-04-20 |title=Suche nach Siegern: Hein Bollow |url=http://www.galopp-sieger.de/galoppsieger/suche_html?sort=jahr&sname=Bollow&sland=&vkj=&bkj= |website=galopp-sieger.de}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator --> * {{cite web|access-date=2020-04-20 |author=Peter Scheid |date=2011-09-23 |title=Top-Story: 'Nebos war der Beste' |url=https://galopponline.de/top-story/nebos-war-der-beste?id=430 |website=GaloppOnline}}<!-- auto-translated from German by Module:CS1 translator -->
{{Commons}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Bollow, Hein}} Category:1920 births Category:2020 deaths Category:Sportspeople from Cologne Category:Officers Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Category:German male equestrians Category:German jockeys Category:20th-century German sportsmen