Josef Piekarek (born 16 April 1963) is a German bridge player. Besides playing Bridge he is a Physical Education Teacher.
In 2015, he and his partner Alexander Smirnov admitted to ethical violations.[1] In 2016, the European Bridge League convicted them of cheating for inappropriately communicating their hands through bidding card positioning.[2] They were sentenced to a four year suspension and a lifetime ban from playing together as a pair, with the ABCL honoring the sentence.[3]
