Arne Woltmann

Arne Woltmann (born August 22, 1974 in Bremerhaven ) is a German basketball coach , official and former player.

Career

During his playing career, which began at the age of twelve at 1. BC Bremerhaven, Woltmann played between 1992 and 1996 in the 2. Bundesliga for the Oldenburger TB and from 1996 for TSV Quakenbrück (later Artland Dragons ). With Quakenbrück, the 2.02 meter tall center player made the leap into the Bundesliga in 2003 .

After retiring as a player in 2006, Woltmann took over the position of assistant coach in Quakenbrück under his former team-mate Chris Fleming as boss. He won the 2008 DBB Cup with the Artland Dragons and joined the Brose Baskets Bamberg with Fleming in the 2008/09 season . There he continued to work as Fleming's assistant and contributed to winning the German championship titles in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. In addition, Bamberg won three cup competitions under the direction of Fleming and Woltmann (2010, 2011, 2012). In 2012 he was part of the Oklahoma City Thunder coaching staff during the NBA Summer League . After Fleming's dismissal in Bamberg and the engagement of Andrea Trinchieri as his successor, Woltmann's tenure with the Franks ended in June 2014.

Also in June 2014 he was appointed assistant coach of the German national team and worked in this role first under Emir Mutapčić and then under Fleming.

In June 2015 Woltmann took over the post of head coach at RheinStars Cologne . In their first season in the 2nd Bundesliga ProA , he led the team to twelfth place in the 2015/16 season. In May 2016, in addition to his work in Cologne, he was appointed national coach of the A2 national team and supervised the DBB selection in July 2016 at a tournament in China. His successor in the position of A2 national coach was Mathias Fischer in March 2017 .

Woltmann was released on March 9, 2017 in Cologne. At the time of the separation, the team was in tenth place in the ProA table with twelve wins and 14 defeats and had lost two games in a row.

He returned to his hometown and became managing director of the Bundesliga club Eisbären Bremerhaven on July 1, 2017 . On December 21, 2017, the Eisbären parted ways with head coach Sebastian Machowski , Woltmann took over this position until the end of the 2017/18 season in addition to his duties as managing director. In January 2018 he handed over the position of managing director to Wolfgang Grube and thus fully concentrated on his tasks as a trainer. On December 12, 2018 Woltmann was dismissed as polar bear head coach after four defeats in a row.

In February 2019 Woltmann worked as an assistant coach for the German men's national team and was also part of the coaching staff afterwards. In July 2020 he was announced as the new assistant coach of Thomas Päch at Bundesliga club SC Rasta Vechta , but asked for the cancellation of the working agreement to become Martin Schiller's assistant at Žalgiris Kaunas in Lithuania .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Head coach: preferred candidate Woltmann takes over - RheinStars Cologne Basketball. (No longer available online.) June 15, 2015, archived from the original on June 24, 2015 ; accessed on August 12, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ easyCredit - Arne Woltmann at the Summer League :. In: www.easycredit-bbl.de. Retrieved August 12, 2016 . 
3. ↑ FOCUS Online: Italian Trinchieri new trainer at Brose Baskets. Retrieved August 12, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Mutapcic nominates national team / Arne Woltmann new assistant coach. In: www.easycredit-bbl.de. June 6, 2014, accessed August 12, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Sport1.de: Arne Woltmann is the new trainer of RheinStars Cologne. Retrieved August 12, 2016 . 
6. ↑ Arne Woltmann takes over A2 men. In: www.basketball-bund.de. German Basketball Association, accessed on August 12, 2016 . 
7. ^ A2 team in China. German Basketball Association, accessed on March 29, 2017 . 
8. ↑ DBB trainer board is up. German Basketball Association, accessed on March 29, 2017 . 
9. ↑ 2. Basketball Bundesliga | RheinStars Cologne release head coach Woltmann. Accessed March 9, 2017 (German). 
10. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 31, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ↑ https://nord24.de/eisbaeren-bremerhaven/wolfgang-grube-uebernehmen-bei-den-eisbaeren-das-ruder
13. ↑ Eisbären Bremerhaven: Eisbären separate from Arne Woltmann. (No longer available online.) December 12, 2018, archived from the original on December 16, 2018 ; accessed on December 12, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ↑ DBB men: The captain has to pass injured. German Basketball Federation, accessed on February 18, 2019 . 
15. ↑ European Championship qualification men: 14 players nominated. German Basketball Association, accessed on February 4, 2020 . 
16. ↑ ASSISTANT COACH: ARNE WOLTMANN FOLLOWS ZAPATA! Retrieved July 13, 2020 . 
17. ↑ TERMINATION: ARNE WOLTMANN WILL NOT START JOB! Accessed July 30, 2020 . 
18. ↑ Woltmann is looking forward to the special atmosphere in Kaunas. Retrieved August 6, 2020 .