Career
He was a West German-German luger who competed from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. After his retirement from competitive luge, Fendt got active in the International Luge Federation (FIL), being named Vice-President Sport for Artificial Track in 1985, a position he stayed at until the death of FIL"s first president Bert Isatitsch in February 1994. Fendt was appointed acting president of the FIL as a result, then elected full president in June of that year.