Dieter Athenstedt

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Robert Siegfried Dieter Athenstedt (born October 9, 1922 in Leipzig ; † October 8, 2015 there ) was a German fencer and fencing trainer.

Life

Dieter Athenstedt was born in 1922 as the first of two children to a grocer and a housewife. At the age of six he started fencing with financial support from his grandfather. Under his teacher Harry Brinkmann, Athenstedt trained at least twice a week in all three branches of arms, foil , epee and saber . He later completed an apprenticeship as a car mechanic .

As a fighter for TSV 1867 Leipzig , he was in 1938 at the German Gymnastics and Sports Festival in Breslau with the Saxon team of German youth champions. In 1939 the team repeated its success in Stuttgart , was runner-up in Dresden in 1940 and in 1941 in the line-up of Athenstedt, Kneip, Ott and Albrecht again in Stuttgart as a youth champion. In 1939 Athenstedt also won the individual competition. In 1940, the Leipziger placed in the German championships for adults in the top eight, so that he became a member of the "Reichssonderklasse". A possible participation in the Olympic Games prevented the outbreak of the Second World War . Athenstedt was stationed on the Eastern Front between 1940 and 1944 and stayed for a long time in the Latvian capital Riga . In 1943 he became three-time Latvian national champion (fighting out of competition). After being a prisoner of war in France in the meantime , Athenstedt joined the BSG Rotation Leipzig in 1950, but switched to BSG Empor Mitte Leipzig a little later. By 1957 he won four individual titles at the GDR championships and, according to the club , was successful 18 times with the team together with Herbert Beirich , Werner Hörig and Rudi Kneip . The holder of a fencing pass also took part in the last all-German championships in 1953; his victory with the West German team in a friendship tournament led to a year-long suspension of Athenstedt.

After successfully completing the trainer faculty at the German University for Physical Culture in 1951 and 1952, Athenstedt worked for various clubs as a trainer and functionary. Initially, he worked as an expert at the BSG Empor Mitte Leipzig in associations of the German Democratic Republic . From 1960 he worked for two years as a coach of the Modern Pentathlon team at SC DHfK Leipzig before he was appointed association coach of the GDR in Berlin in 1962 . He held this office until 1965 and again between 1969 and 1970. He also trained the fencing teams of the SC DHfK Leipzig in the run-up to the 1968 Olympic Games from 1965 to 1969; the epee team reached fifth place in Mexico City . Between 1970 and 1973 Athenstedt worked in Berlin as a trainer for the fencing teams of the Dynamo sports association , before he took up his last job as a fencing district trainer in Leipzig in 1973. In 1987 Athenstedt retired.

Dieter Athenstedt was married twice and has ten children. He died on October 8, 2015 at the age of 92 in Leipzig.

successes

German youth championships

Competition - year 1938 1939 1940 1941
team 1 1 2 1

GDR individual championships

Competition - year 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957
foil 2 3 1 1 2 2
Sword 2 1 2 1
saber 2 2 2 3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the GDR master. In: fechten.org. German Fencing Association e. V., accessed on February 18, 2015 .
  2. ^ Robert Siegfried Dieter Athenstedt: Obituary notice. In: lvz-trauer.de , Leipziger Volkszeitung , October 17, 2015, accessed on October 20, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Athenstedt, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fencer and fencing trainer
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 2015
Place of death Leipzig , Saxony , Germany