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Robert Roth (5 July 1898 – 1959) was a Swiss wrestler who won a gold medal in the freestyle heavyweight class at the 1920 Summer Olympics.
Roth was a national champion in schwingen, Swiss national wrestling, in 1919 and 1921. Between 1922 and 1927 he competed as professional, but than returned to amateurs and won the national title in 1928 and 1931.
His younger brothers Hans and Fritz were also Olympic wrestlers.
Robert Roth (born 1950),Was an active member in the anti-war, anti-racism and anti-imperialism movements of the 1960s and 70s, and key member of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) political movement in the Columbia University Chapter in New York, where he eventually presided. Later, as a member of the Weatherman/Weather Underground Organization he used militant tactics to oppose the Vietnam War and racism. After the war ended, Roth surfaced from his underground status and has been involved in a variety of social causes to this day.
Roth is the son of a middle-class family in Queens, New York, where he grew up in a progressive Jewish household. He graduated high school in 1966, at the age of 16. That same year he was accepted to, and entered Columbia University in New York City. In 1969, Roth withdrew from Columbia to focus his full attention to SDS.
Roth was recruited to join SDS at Columbia University by Mark Rudd and John Jacobs during his freshmen year at Columbia University. In 1969 he was elected leader of SDS when he decided he would not finish school at Columbia and would instead focus on fighting the revolution. That same year he dropped out of school to avoid disciplinary charges and to commit himself to revolutionary organization. He spent that summer working with an SDS community organizing project in the Inwood section of New York City.