Veit Hermans

Veit Hermans played water polo and was named to the East German national team, which finished sixth at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. The team was coached by Rolf Bastel. Nationally Hermans played with SG Dynamo Magdeburg, at that time the top club in the GDR.

In 1968 the DTSB (East German Gymnastics and Sports Association) ended national support for water polo, field hockey, basketball, and some other sports. International competitions in the capitalist world were forbidden, training sessions were cancelled, and water polo was no longer allowed in Magdeburg.

In the GDR Hermans was honored as a Master of Sports. After his athletic career he was a swimming instructor at SC Dynamo Berlin from 1977-84. In 1998, he was one of the witnesses in the first doping processes concerning the stat-driven systematically doping practices.